[modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
Many thanks, Hubert! We Anglo-Saxons must and will
stick together, even in our differences concerning
model engineering processes and practices! LOL!
My second model engineering project was a Stuart 10-V,
which I built with a small Atlas lathe and some hand
tools. My first project was the conversion of a twin
cylinder air compressor into a steam engine, which ran
quite well, something sort of like a Sirius 2X.
What are some of the other tools you are making or
have made? I have made several for the lathe from the
sketches in Mr. Sparey's book and I am quite pleased
with their performance.
Have a great day!
Al Messer
--- shep <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Al
>
> Our hearts go out to you all at this time of a great
> national calamity. We
> particularly think of you, whilst your eldest son is
> doing search and
> rescue, and trying to control looting, in these foul
> and dangerous
> conditions.
>
> To talk of more happy things - Pierre's engine
> sounds interesting indeed!
> I spend most of my time making tools. Presently,
> rather crazily at my
> age, I am making a small, but heavy and hopefully
> precision, screw-cutting
> lathe. This is being machined from large lumps of
> solid cast iron -
> producing masses of swarf and dirty carbon dust!
> When visitors see my
> workshop, they ask 'What do you make?' I answer,
> 'tools'. They then ask,
> 'what do you make then?' and I answer 'more tools'.
> In order to divert
> these questions, I made a few stationary steam
> engines, including one
> oscillator from scrap with a 1/16" piston.
> I was making a Stuart 10V engine from castings, when
> I had the crazy idea of
> making one half that size, about 3 inches high. It
> was easy to reduce the
> plans to about 48%, but from there on everything had
> to be made out of the
> solid (mainly brass). The making the body of the
> engine, the flywheel, and
> the minute slide valve, created interesting
> problems. To my amazement the
> engine runs beautifully on compressed air, making a
> noise like a bumble-bee!
> Looks quite pretty, too!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Hubert
>
> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM ?
> >
> > Sounds like a very interesting engine, Pierre, in
> > fact, it sounds a lot like one the power plant for
> a
> > free lance locomotive I am working on at the
> present.
> > It is fabricated from Steel and Brass and is all
> > bolted together as I do not have a heat source for
> > Silver Soldering.
> >
> > Thank you for your concern, but I am app. 400
> miles
> > from the Gulf Coast. My eldest son is there with
> the
> > National Guard, doing search and rescue, and
> trying to
> > hold down the looting.
> >>
>
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