Oldmechthings
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A fellow in our neighborhood summoned me to his place to give him a little help on a project he was working on, restoring a wood jewelery chest. It was missing a brass foot and he needed another one made. while visiting he pulled out a little gadget that he had acquired and asked if I might know what it was. Sure, it was a model of a Scotch Yoke steam engine. It was a cute little thing and I would have liked to have had it for my collection, but understandably Fred did not want to part with it. So I just took a good look at it and as soon as I got home a sketch was made so that I would not forget the details, until time could be worked into the schedule to build it
Fred's engine was built with castings, but the pattern work for one engine was not worth it, so I fabricated the engine by silver soldering pieces of brass together. That works pretty good for one of a kind projects. It was built about 7 years ago so is starting to show a bit of patina. That is like gray hair on an old man.
Have a good day and I'll try to have something different tomorrow.
Birk
Fred's engine was built with castings, but the pattern work for one engine was not worth it, so I fabricated the engine by silver soldering pieces of brass together. That works pretty good for one of a kind projects. It was built about 7 years ago so is starting to show a bit of patina. That is like gray hair on an old man.
Have a good day and I'll try to have something different tomorrow.
Birk