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Plans And Models For September

🕑 Added 2020-09-02 18:21:11 +0000 UTC

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Doug Hurst

Do you have anything on dovetail joints? Something I know I'll need.

Blondihacks

I don't know, to be honest- I don't have a lot of experience with the community posting features here. If it's the same interface as my posts, you can put in inline photos with a camera icon to the left of your text box, in which case you can caption the pictures. I'm not sure if you can upload PDFs. My guess is probably not. You can put a link to it on a google drive or something, though.

Rick Redfield

I am putting together some pictures for this project. Question: can individual pictures be captioned and can I upload a PDF file to this site?

Rick Redfield

That would be simply amazing!

Blondihacks

That sounds like a really cool project! If you post in the Community tab here on Patreon, you can attach photos and we can look at it as a group and see how to tackle the part.

Rick Redfield

Thank you so much for sharing all the challenges you face. I can't overemphasize how helpful that is. At times it is very daunting for me to risk new challenges and seeing you stick with the project and face the frustration of errors and mistakes with perseverance is inspirational. I have a twin cylinder vertical steam engine project that was given to me partially finished when I was 15 years old (I'm 67 now). I have worked on it on and off over the years, having to remake the parts I created when I was young. My goal is to get that engine done in my lifetime! The connecting rods have me completely stumped as to how to fixture them to finish them and I have been intimidated about attempting them for over a year now. Your videos are inspiring me to face this barrier. If you are interested I would like to at least share the drawing of the connecting rod and get your take on how to tackle them. In fact, if you are interested I would love to share the plans with you. This would be a great project for down the road because the engine is made entirely from solid stock with no castings and is a great design. The plans came in an old Model Engineer magazine from 1947. A friend of my dad's did an incredible job getting it started over 50 years ago when he gave it to me. Let me know if you are interested in hearing more.

Robert Liesenfeld

Really enjoying this series btw!

Robert Liesenfeld

I'm curious why stainless is required for the rod that snapped? I imagine there's a good reason, just wondering what it is.

Alan

Thanks I imagined 1/4 od seemed pretty sensible..

Blondihacks

The copper lines (such as the one running to the engine) are 1/4" OD (6.35mm). The larger brass pipes, such as on the steam dome are 0.420" (10.7mm). Those dimensions are totally arbitrary- I have no idea what is proper for them, since I had no idea what I was doing when building that. 😀 The copper pipe size was chosen because I had a bunch on hand from an old fridge, and the 1/8" NPT fittings were used because I happen to have that tap and die size (and then I made the brass pipes to fit)

Alan

Hi , could you tell me the o/d of the Take off pipes you used on Your steam boiler. I think you said 1/8 NPT but we don’t use NPT in UK. Thanks Alan was