Making a piston valve engine from mainly junk materials

[TFL45]

Hi John,

Glad you thought it was OK! Not much credit to me - you're the one that created the content!  :respect2

Pleasantly surprised, though, when I came back on and saw that the attachment actually made it - notwithstanding the error message I got!  Will proceed with the remaining chapters over the next little while.

Good to be able to put a face to the name! However, doubt that our paths will cross, given the wee bit of water that stands in the way.

Got a chuckle with the understated way you refer to the modifications to the chopper frame as only "a matter of a couple of slots, plus a few 'custom' stainless and aluminium bits", although for you, that might just be the case!

Here goes for another chapter. Cheers,

Floyd

[TFL45]

Keeping it simple now! Here's Chapter 3.

Floyd

[Bill Hudson]

Keeping it simple now! Here's Chapter 3.

Floyd

How about posting these as a separate topic with a directive her to it.  It would be much easier to access.  Just a thought.

Bill

[TFL45]

Good thought! Makes sense! However, new to all these 'Forum' machinations and just hanging on by my fingernails :ohno

Figured someone (you know - the mythical 'They') would gather up the pieces and put them in some type of repository to facilitate access.

If that's not the case, will create separate topic as you suggest. (Assume the chapters already posted here would have to be reposted under the new topic to make a complete package?)

Will wait a bit for any other feedback, then proceed with Plan B.

Floyd

[Eddy Matthews]

Just keep posting as normal Floyd and I'll sort it when we have all the parts...

[TFL45]

Roger that! Here's Chapter 4.

[TFL45]

Moving right along - although not as quick as John!

Here's Chapter 5.

Floyd

[bogstandard]

Hi Floyd,
You're doing a great job here, I am sure that a few other people appreciate it as well.
I'm glad you got a 'chuckle' out of my comment, but I have to admit, I didn't do this job alone, I can only lift with one hand so I collared my mate in to help me, he was the one taking the pics. He is as far as I am concerned a 'great' machinist, if it can be drawn he will most probably be able to make it manually, he makes me look like a rank amateur, and is my mentor and instructor all in one, and has been for the last 20 odd years.
Put it this way, if you have flown, and the aircraft had R-R engines he was most probably responsible for the overseeing of the machining of all the compressor vanes in there.

John

[TFL45]

Hi John,

As I mentioned at the start, I was doing this for my own use so really only needed to be 'tidied up' for wider dissemination. Will be interesting to see if anyone takes a shot at building one.

BTW - I've got my pile of 'junk' assembled but suspect I'll first tackle the casting kit (PM Research) I've got on hand before I take on a full scratch build!  

Here's the last Chapter; next the appendix with your sketches and we're done!

Now if I could just come up with a pithy saying for my signature block!

Floyd

[TFL45]

Hey folks - that went well - no error message and the post w/attachment was right there!

On a roll - here's Part A to the appendix before the gremlins find out they missed.

Floyd

[TFL45]

And here's the last part.

A note for readers: the PDF files are formatted to display a page size of 81/2 x 11 inches, which is of little consequence when viewing on a computer screen. However, if readers wish to print off a hard copy, they are reminded to change their paper size if necessary, eg, A4 in Europe.

Again, my hat off to John for all the time and effort he put in to describing this build. I'll keep an eye out on YouTube for more of his creations - keep up the great work, Bogstandard!

Floyd

[TFL45]

Knew it was be too good to last!

For info, here's the type of error message I kept getting for 6 of the 8 posts:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4880844 bytes) in /home/fhlinux208/p/paddleducks.co.uk/user/htdocs/forum/m2f/includes/pear/Mail/mimePart.php on line 236

Fortunately, though, 'Fatal' didn't turn out to be quite correct, as the attachment eventually did appear after an indeterminate time!

[bogstandard]

Floyd,
Very well done, and a big THANK YOU.
Nothing new for the time being on the new engine side, maybe in a couple of weeks after my 'display' is over.

John

[Eddy Matthews]

I've edited Johns first post on making the steam engine, so it now includes a link to all the pdf files created by Floyd. Our sincere thanks to everyone involved for creating such an interesting and invaluable piece of work!

[Bill Hudson]

John & Floyd, Great joint effort.  Finished up by Eddie with posting to the download section under steam engines gives it all a final touch. Thanks Eddie.

Bill