The Home Machinist!

Back to this project for a while. I wanted to check the bearings and get an idea of where resistance might be coming from. To do this I pulled the brake rigging off and mounted it and the journal caps on a board. Brakes Removed.png Rather than take everything apart and lose the timing, I disconnecte...

Coal is hard to come by here in California so it makes sense to buy a bunch of it to save on shipping. From past threads there are at least three places where people get coal from recently: 1) Penn-coal http://www.penncoal.com/blacksmith-live-steam.html https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic...

Here are the tables of contents for V1 and V2. I have found both of these books handy over the years as I was never trained as a machinist.

Unlike the internet, I don't have to worry about pages disappearing Hope this is helpful.
SteveR

The Kershaw family in Alabama is selling its warehouse, so all of the vehicles it contains—whether made to travel land or water—are going up for auction. (Cars - as in Automobiles) Locomotive for sale.png https://www.thedrive.com/news/warehouse-full-of-classic-cars-boats-and-even-a-train-headed-to-a...

Here's some pictures of what I think this is and a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx9g9P_z5So WW filter housing.png The filter housing WW housing bottom.png The bottom showing the bolt into the inner nut. Westwood filter nut.png The nut inside the can that OP is talking about. I would put th...

If you're going to go to all the trouble to weld up something, it only takes a few minutes to clean the material to bare metal. The small hand grinders are very nice and you can get every kind of wheel you would ever want. For steel, the scotch-brite/sandpaper flappers are very aggressive and cheap....

For machining stainless, I think the sulfur in MolyD makes a huge difference. See this post:

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SteveR

Hi Harold,
When you say heat treat to relieve stress, do you mean "normalizing" (heat past critical temp and let cool in air)? Or something else for this specific application?
Thanks,
Steve

Still down AFAICT. SteveR

I'm thinking the loctite contribution to the strength is a lot less than the interference fit. Don't heat it, just press apart. In fact, since the wheel cracked, the interference fit strength is reduced. Which Loctite? I'll still bet you don't need heat to press apart. Don't go to 400C! 200C should ...

Should match the height of whatever vehicle you are going to use to transport it. Within a few inches anyway.
SteveR

http://www.livesteam.sakura.ne.jp/index_e.html

Works with Firefox and Chrome

SteveR