Smifffy
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Post by Smifffy on Apr 7, 2008 20:36:11 GMT
This evening I had the great joy of spedning a couple of hours removing lots and lots of metal from the two 2"x1/2" bits of stock that are going to be the webs for my crank axle.
They're not finished, I'll need a rotary table to do that, but it was really satisfying.
;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2008 21:04:37 GMT
Satisfaction is a "BIG" pile of swarf ;D
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Post by circlip on Apr 8, 2008 5:46:05 GMT
Satisfaction is a BIG pile of swarf of a PLANNED volume.
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Richmond
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My engineering is like this avatar : Projects start off ok, then go off track :D
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Post by Richmond on Apr 8, 2008 9:08:07 GMT
Satisfaction is a BIG pile of swarf collected from the RIGHT part of the work piece in a PLANNED volume ;D
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Post by ron on Apr 8, 2008 9:13:46 GMT
Satisfaction is a Rolling Stones record To those of a certain vintage Ron
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Post by Tel on Apr 8, 2008 9:33:39 GMT
I can't get no .....
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Post by Boadicea on Apr 8, 2008 16:26:09 GMT
That's because your Kev's over here telling us how you are going to police the Olympic torch - not the Chinese. I used to love the olympics - now it's just an old flame, Boom, Boom
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ianmac
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Post by ianmac on Apr 9, 2008 6:48:34 GMT
Satisfaction is
Taking a look at the part on the plan, scratching ones head and saying how the hell do ya do that.
Then 20min's later parting it off the lathe.
I was very proud last night to produce 8 bottle nose buffers in nswgr profile. the last 4 were the best and will be used on the loco. the other 4 can be used for rolling stock.
probably very simple for most folk but i had been dreading it for months and i was really proud.
Showed the wife and and got "you spent 2 hours on that!, seeing your so clever you can change your sons nappy." ;D
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Post by silverfox on Apr 9, 2008 8:57:53 GMT
More years ago than i care to remember, i lived in Peterborough and used visit Fred Beard when he was building his (to be) award winning Dean Single
One night he showed me the crank axle Turned from solid including the webs and eccentrics!! Said he started out with a lump of steel weighing 10lbs ended up with a bit weighing one and a half pounds and up to his balls in swarf!!
Looking back i still cant figure out how he did the webs, but i was young and gullible. He once told me an old farm cart he made was made entirely from tree wood. Took an hour for the penny to drop!
At the moment i am milling the valve guides for my B17, 4 down two to go
Ron (the other one)
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Post by Jo on Apr 9, 2008 12:25:06 GMT
Satisfaction: is getting to the end of a job that seems to have taken months and finding that you have not only finished it: but that it works/fits!
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Smifffy
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Post by Smifffy on Apr 11, 2008 21:33:29 GMT
My satisfaction was short lived :-) Two more pieces of scrap into the box and a restart on the webs :-)
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Post by AndrewP on Apr 13, 2008 15:05:57 GMT
Satisfaction is re-quartering all the wheels on my Rob Roy, machining and bushing the connecting rods and the wheels still go round ;D
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Smifffy
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Post by Smifffy on Apr 13, 2008 19:38:49 GMT
After the best part of two days in the garage, I can now claim a sense of satisfaction with my Crank Axle Webs :-) Altough not 100% dimensionally perfect, I am very pleased with the outcome. Shame it was the 2nd attempt: This is by far the most complex shape I've machined to date. As you can see, I still have to drill, pin and glue the webs and then remove the "bit" of axle between the two webs.
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ianmac
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Post by ianmac on Apr 14, 2008 3:38:06 GMT
The crank looks good though.
Hat goes off to anyone who has completed a shay engine.
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