[modeleng] Re: pumps, etc was

Hi Harry,

Sounds like you already "know the drill" for  doing a jacketed rim. Good
luck with it in any case.

Cheers Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: pumps, etc was


> At 07:15 AM 2/22/06 -0500, you wrote:
> >Couple of ideas for your flywheel: 1. make a cast iron or steel "jacket"
> for the rim - Jeff
>
> Jeff (and Jesse),
>        I hadn't planned to go into it but I've found somone with an
> identical pattern (the original patterns were lost in a fire) who may be
> able to supply cast iron, if he ever gets 'around tuit'.  However if the
> C.I. is unreasonable or unavailable a pressed-on rim is exactly what I'd
> planned to do.
>         I have already done that on a couple of Stuart engines where the
> flywheel rims were too narrow to properly represent a typical rope drive
> flywheel.  I first turned the cast flywheel rims down to leave only a
small
> rectangle at the end of the spokes.  I then took two slices of steel pipe
> and turned them to fit tightly over the remaining rim, face and sides, one
> slice over approximately one half the rim, the other slice over the other
> half, with a stepped joint in the middle at the mating edges leaving
> sufficient material to profile the new rim.  I turned the step joint so
> that the parting line was hidden in the depths of one of the rope grooves
> and dressed the transition between the old casting and new rim so that
when
> viewed from any angle there is no sign, except for the difference in
> appearance between iron and steel, that this is anything other than the
> cast rim.  Sorry I can't post a picture or I would.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
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