GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
Another mermaid ornament. This one is very purple. It's such a soothing color.
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Material? Was it hard to sew through?
File handle out of walnut.
I've forgotten the name of the fabric but it wasn't hard to sew. The hard part is getting a grip on such large pieces with my little hands.
I "made" some stationery out of some papers I already had, using a rubber cat stamp and a red ink stamp pad. They turned out pretty good, although one side is a bit uneven where I trimmed the paper with scissors to get it to a good size.
Shaft roughing operation
Scratch pass to verify thread pitch
Worn out broken part
Finished valve stem
Arrow indicates the scratches on the highly polished shaft from test assembly
No worries, it only looks bad
The shaft was likely better than the original one from 1905
Valve casting guide bore repair.
The egged out bore was restored to a round one here.
Replacement valve poppet and stem
Test assembly
Scratch pass to verify thread pitch
Worn out broken part
Finished valve stem
Arrow indicates the scratches on the highly polished shaft from test assembly
No worries, it only looks bad
The shaft was likely better than the original one from 1905
The egged out bore was restored to a round one here.
Nice. Today found out that I need to improve cooling for my brakes of my MR2 Spyder. Now to get on some forums to learn about fixes.
1905 Bessemer natural gas engine repair
Worn and broken original assembly.
The nut got rubbed thru the poppet after it fractured at the hub
Trashed valve stem
The hub broke off of the cast iron poppet because the stem and valve guide were very worn.
That in turn wiped out the threads on the guide piston end of the shaft.
The rebore of the valve guide required picking up the center on the boss machined on the housing casting to let it all fit back together.
All of that was done on a rush job basis to get this puppy back in order for our steam show 
This dinosaur is a brute from days gone by that still pounds the ground 5 days out of the year.
It ran about 70 years before it was retired and sold for scrap then rescued so it could continue to live and educate others.
Worn and broken original assembly.
The nut got rubbed thru the poppet after it fractured at the hub
Trashed valve stem
The hub broke off of the cast iron poppet because the stem and valve guide were very worn.
That in turn wiped out the threads on the guide piston end of the shaft.
The rebore of the valve guide required picking up the center on the boss machined on the housing casting to let it all fit back together.
This dinosaur is a brute from days gone by that still pounds the ground 5 days out of the year.
It ran about 70 years before it was retired and sold for scrap then rescued so it could continue to live and educate others.
The last thing I made was a bed of lightly seasoned rice with a lovely green salad on top, topped with home grilled teriyaki chicken, croutons, and thousand island dressing. It was a wonderful accompaniment to Disney's Robin Hood.
GrownupGirl
Tempermental Artist
A new unicorn ornament.
I did some drawings.
Lemon Zing
Well-Known Member
Pasta, with olive oil and sea salt.
Show time is coming up again at The National Pike Steam Gas and Horse Association grounds during the annual Pike Festival days weekend of May 21st & 22nd.
It'd been a couple of busy weeks out in our machineshop doing machinery repairs and improvements to the display.
Yesterday I went over to our sawmill area and gathered some rough sawed lumber to build a tool table to place near our century old Monarch engine lathe.
Here was the end result:
This will allow me to display the hand forged and ground cutting tools, tool holders, centers and boring bars needed to operate it so that the public can get an up close look at what it took to do the work on it.
It'd been a couple of busy weeks out in our machineshop doing machinery repairs and improvements to the display.
Yesterday I went over to our sawmill area and gathered some rough sawed lumber to build a tool table to place near our century old Monarch engine lathe.
Here was the end result:
This will allow me to display the hand forged and ground cutting tools, tool holders, centers and boring bars needed to operate it so that the public can get an up close look at what it took to do the work on it.
Here is a capture of the drive spindle being reloaded into the bearing saddles on the old Monarch:
Heavy and dirty work to put it in proper order, but now restored to operating condition again.
I really enjoy keeping these old girls alive and then getting to actively demonstrate what were considered modern equipment a century ago.
No gear guards installed yet because it was still on a 3 hour shakedown run.
I have since reinstalled them and it is good to go
Heavy and dirty work to put it in proper order, but now restored to operating condition again.
I really enjoy keeping these old girls alive and then getting to actively demonstrate what were considered modern equipment a century ago.
No gear guards installed yet because it was still on a 3 hour shakedown run.
I have since reinstalled them and it is good to go
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