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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Milling Machines
- Topic: DRO Backlash
- Replies: 8
- Views: 151
Re: DRO Backlash
You also need to be aware that backlash in a DRO is really a misnomer. Unless you literally have something loose in the scale ..as in the reader head being loose on the table, or the glass scale being able to move, you need to consider resolution of the scale and resolution of the reading unit. Some...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Milling Machines
- Topic: DRO Backlash
- Replies: 8
- Views: 151
Re: DRO Backlash
ah...now you are into 'verification of position' on a machine, which is a whole science in itself -> not the least of which is room temperature control.
as CTM asks -> is this a hand cranker, stepper or servo machine?
as CTM asks -> is this a hand cranker, stepper or servo machine?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 459
Re: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
good to hear on right track...or correct track?
any recommended gauge/thickness?
whatever you have and can cut....and twist....it really maters not...
i would NOT have them sticking OUT of the end of the flues inside the firebox.
any recommended gauge/thickness?
whatever you have and can cut....and twist....it really maters not...
i would NOT have them sticking OUT of the end of the flues inside the firebox.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 459
Re: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
yes..
long term stainless will last longer - but to prove a point.....
long term stainless will last longer - but to prove a point.....
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 459
Re: turbulator on vert boiler worth it?
Half as**d or not, it will help. Some of the original industrial turbolaters were on gas fired vertical boilers, or water heaters. Absolutely no reason they shouldn't work.. The other option is a lot of small tubes in the vertical, which from a heat transfer perspective amounts to the same thing but...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Milling Machines
- Topic: DRO Backlash
- Replies: 8
- Views: 151
Re: DRO Backlash
What type of scale is it?
Glass or ???
Glass or ???
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3101
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
agreed...but don't ask about monday's breakfast....
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 756
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
fuel injected?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: 3/4" scale Juliet 2
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1850
Re: 3/4" scale Juliet 2
don't remember anything about the springs...sorry...that was before breakfast .....40+ years ago. I am pretty sure we went with the standard, and when they sagged, stuck in the rubber bits and ran it that way for 20 years....it is just sitting now because of a boiler problem related to threading scr...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 756
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
Ditto...at pressures 100's of times greater than seen on a loco
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: All Things CAD and CAM
- Topic: Free and easy to learn 3D CAD
- Replies: 64
- Views: 115412
Re: Free and easy to learn 3D CAD
My wife has frequently accused me of not having perspective -> and computer graphics has confirmed it on more than one occasion. 🥴 There is a lot to be taken away from a basic design, drawing and layout class that used to be given to engineering students a half a century ago . Art students should al...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: All Things CAD and CAM
- Topic: Free and easy to learn 3D CAD
- Replies: 64
- Views: 115412
Re: Free and easy to learn 3D CAD
Sometimes the viewpoint and perspective get scrambled ..and the computer does exactly what you tell it to do.