Well lads, many of you may or may not have been following my misadventures in erecting my Smitty 101 build. One of the features that I am wanting to incorporate is a handwheel to motivate the Stephenson valve arrangement. The drawings call for a lever arrangement and a coil spring that looks rather dodgy, not to mention amatuer-ish at best. I have some tinkering to do in order to get the drag links etc. correct, but am trying to :wall: think ahead :noidea: towards the fabrication of the handwheel that would drive them. I am considering making one up in multiple pieces, much like some of the flywheels that have successfully been generated here, but am also interested to hear of any other sorts of techniques that could be used that does not require any foundry type work. Give me some ideas :idea: (with pictures if possible of any and all ideas. I thank you :bow: in advance.
Cheers
BC1
Cheers
BC1