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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 569
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: 63
- Views: 115157
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: 63
- Views: 115157
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.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: 3/4" scale Juliet 2
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1458
Re: 3/4" scale Juliet 2
Many of us whom have been there done that with Tich and Juliet models have benefitted from added weight between the frames in the form of blocks of lead. I seem to remember adding 4# of lead. Does not sound like much, but on a 25# loco. While you are making springs, a few that are 10-15% stiffer tha...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Mercer butterfly door kit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1038
Re: Mercer butterfly door kit
Nice job
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 569
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
good plan.....
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2692
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
GM 6V-71 diesel - had one where I worked first out of college on an unmanned barge, driving a water pump. ran a VERY WET STACK most of the time since it idled running only an air compressor..only used the pump 10% of the time. when we loaded it up with the pump and ran it hard for an hour -> would s...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 569
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
so the pressure on the gas feed to the Corvair carbs was so severe as to require a double flare. ?Comstock-Friend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:00 pm I used to do the double flare on the steel gas lines going to the four single barrels on my '65 Corvair Corsa. Single flare leaked.
John
cool....musta been a really quick Corvair
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Stuart Turner 5a Build
- Replies: 55
- Views: 253376
Re: Stuart Turner 5a Build
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.
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.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: cleaning burner nozzles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 175
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
- Views: 10519
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: 50
- Views: 2692
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....