The Home Machinist!

Took advantage of the long Easter weekend and swagged in some tubes.

I'm getting ready to silver solder the inlet and outlet to the fixed end. I had to make a bracket to hold things in place so they don't move when soldering.

The drivers were counter balanced to reduce augmented pounding on the rails, so the rails would not be damaged. A good example would be using a 4 jaw lathe chuck with the material far away from center, when spinning you can feel the out of balance. Here is a tidbit that Harold Crouch told me, when b...

Drilled the inlet/outlet holes in the fixed end of the feed water heater.

Hey Ken here is a screenshot of the “guts” and how the water travels through the heater.

Finished the water passages in the fixed end of the water heater. I need to put in the inlet and outlet fittings after deburring all the sharp edges.

Mike- I will be putting the elesco feed water heater on a NYC Mikado H10b, and later I will make a post for building the H10b locomotive with tender. Berkman- The feed water heater is design to come apart and I am using copper and brass. At end of season take apart and put it in a bucket of water an...

Had a better Saturday than last week, brass is so much easier to work with than copper. I finished all the holes, and tapped holes, ready for water passages.

Well since I'm waiting for the EDM machine to be free so I can get rid of the broken drills in the free end I'll start the fixed end. I put all #30 drills in and time to do the other side.

You mean swear like a sailor... I do it all the time when things do go as planned

Greg the drills were getting stuck in the copper from too slow of a RPMS. I corrected that and continued on my way. Now I'm just finishing up the water passages.