Ditto on the nice.
I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.
The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.
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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Stuart Turner 5a Build
- Replies: 55
- Views: 251115
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: cleaning burner nozzles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 130
Re: cleaning burner nozzles
A bit better description or a photo would help.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: LE 1 inch scale 060 Rebuild
- Replies: 33
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Re: LE 1 inch scale 060 Rebuild
careful...you may loosen up dirt and have it float into the bearing areas.....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2503
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
THAT'S cool....
we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....
so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....
we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....
so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2503
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
i have seen gear driven pumps that had internal shaft leaks that would dump hyd oil out the drive shaft and down into....wherever...
combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....
or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....
combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....
or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2594
Re: fuel topic
GIGGLE....and coal with Sulphur is not acidic?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2594
Re: fuel topic
is what I remember steve doing - although it had troughs in it to increase the surface area....
seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....
didn't smell like a popcorn engine though
seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....
didn't smell like a popcorn engine though
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2594
Re: fuel topic
I have seen Steve Bratina running a loco on it maybe 20 years ago....??
required a very funky looking grate IIRC
required a very funky looking grate IIRC
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2503
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
Did you put new seals in the hydraulic pump?
Is the hyd pump belt driven or mounted on the engine black and gear driven?
Is the hyd pump belt driven or mounted on the engine black and gear driven?
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A spindle oil question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 176
Re: A spindle oil question
Yesterday I spent $125 on gasoline to run my lawn mower for the next 3 months.
It cut grass like a banshee, but us very thirsty.
$5 for a coffee makes it seem cheap to take care of the bearings in our machines...
It cut grass like a banshee, but us very thirsty.
$5 for a coffee makes it seem cheap to take care of the bearings in our machines...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Repair Montgomery Wards Powr-Kraft split-phase motor with Thermotron protection
- Replies: 3
- Views: 69
Re: Repair Montgomery Wards Powr-Kraft split-phase motor with Thermotron protection
Of course. Where do you think the smoke came from?
Individual windings are separated by a thin layer of varnish.
Individual windings are separated by a thin layer of varnish.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 294
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
Steggy is correct about improper installation of copper and its possible eventual failure and use of stainless, however the tried and true use of copper is just fine. Simple soft soldering is more than enough for this application where copper can be used. Look at IBLS www site for bill van brocklin'...