More Other People’s Machines
by John
One of my readers, Albert De Witte, kindly sent me some pictures of his stationary engines.
I hope that you enjoy these pictures as much as I did.
Lovely paint job.
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Hi John
I’m honored to have my pictures on your blog!! Thanks for that and happy machining.
I am now going to start with PMR #6CI, maybe I should also take more built progress photos.
Albert
Albert,
Definitely take photos and keep a record. You will be surprised at how often you find it useful to refer back to these notes and photos. and if not you then whomsoever ends up with your engines.
And it is fun to blog, and get comments from kindred souls from all over the planet. You might even start to realise that you are not so odd. Or at least that there are other eccentrics with similar interests.
Blog sites are easy and cheap. Some are free. Check out wordpress.com Stay in touch
John
Hi John
Thanks for the constructive words… much appreciated. I’ve started on the #6 PMR steam engine Saturday for few hours and for some reason I always do the fly wheel first. I normally do the boring and then a separate axle from mild steel with a key way to do the final turning of the flywheel.
I registered on http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/ which I will use of some sort of a blog LOL.
BTW, I love your beam engine and your CNC setup. Must be amazing making engines with such machinery
Regards
Albert
Hello Albert,
I also always do the flywheel first. We must have the same disease!
I will look out for your HME blogs.
The beam engine is an attractive engine. Perhaps the most attractive steam engine. I would like to make a full size one like Jay Leno’s. (If you have not seen his blog of the beam engine it is definitely worth a look at JAy Leno’s Garage.)
And CNC is a quantum leap. It must be the equivalent of getting electricity in the workshop for a model engineer in 1900. While it is most useful in making complex parts, with curves and tapers and threads, I am increasingly using CNC to make bosses, cavities, even square and rectangular shapes. It is the way of the future. I was fortunate having a friend who held my hand in the early stages, and he was a resource for my beginner’s questions. I was also fortunate in obtaining a CNC lathe fairly cheaply, and later an old CNC mill, also fairly cheaply.
regards John
ps. does the ne in your address mean that you live in Holland?
Hi John
Last q 1st, no I’m from Rustenburg South Africa, but I am from Begium off spring. The AC2T in my email address is the ICAO designator of the plane I am flying, one of my passions in life was to fly and I’ve done that for 14 years now, realizing it has to come to an end also, I’ve taken up my other passion which is to build engines….steam of course. You may want to add me on facebook, I do post some nice pics there too.
I WANT the CNC setup too lol
TC
Albert