A Long Term Project
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Nice pic Fred!
To round things out, here are a couple of pictures of the engine and its 3" Allchin stablemate in the workshop.
For anyone thinking about model engineering but concerned about the cost, the pictures show the full extent of the machine tools used to build the 3" Hunslet: a 110 year old lathe, a basic drill press, and a basic bench grinder. Nothing fancy needed, just patience and persistance!
Best regards to all,
Steve
To round things out, here are a couple of pictures of the engine and its 3" Allchin stablemate in the workshop.
For anyone thinking about model engineering but concerned about the cost, the pictures show the full extent of the machine tools used to build the 3" Hunslet: a 110 year old lathe, a basic drill press, and a basic bench grinder. Nothing fancy needed, just patience and persistance!
Best regards to all,
Steve
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A vertical slide mounted to the lathe cross-slide Fred.
Best regards
Steve
Best regards
Steve
Re: A Long Term Project
Excellent work by anyone's standards Steve. Well done, and a marvelous example of what can be done, with skill and persistence, on modest equipment.
GWRdriver
Nashville TN
Nashville TN
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Really beautiful work, Steve.
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Awesome! That's a round-bed lathe! A Drummond? Way cool.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
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Many thanks to all.
Greg - the lathe is a George Adams round bed, circa 1902. Details here if you're interested: http://lathes.co.uk/georgeadamsroundbed/
Best regards
Steve
Greg - the lathe is a George Adams round bed, circa 1902. Details here if you're interested: http://lathes.co.uk/georgeadamsroundbed/
Best regards
Steve
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Awesome Job: Making the 'leastest do the mostest' is a good motto to live by. I had a milling attachment for a 9" south bend lathe, but sold it after I got a mill. Didn't use it any more. Quite a few things were done on that, though, and it helped me to learn a lot. It was slow to say the least, but if you can be patient, good parts can be made with it. To those who built locomotives back in the 30's through 60's, a milling machine was a luxury item! That's why a lot of the older locomotive designs had built up frames and multi-piece cylinders- So that they could be machined on a lathe with a milling attachment.
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Ooohh. Is that yours in the lead photo? That early iron is so awesome. I'm so jealous. There is something about the way things in that era were designed that has a level of humanness in them that doesn't exist today. The shapes of the parts and the nature of the materials is just more appealing.Steve Goodbody wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:25 am Many thanks to all.
Greg - the lathe is a George Adams round bed, circa 1902. Details here if you're interested: http://lathes.co.uk/georgeadamsroundbed/
Best regards
Steve
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
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Yes Greg, most of the pictures in that article are of my lathe and it's an absolute pleasure to use. With appropriate care and consideration it happily produces parts to decent finish and tolerance, just not as quickly as a modern machine!
Thanks for the interest,
Steve
Thanks for the interest,
Steve
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Hi all,
Well, after 35 years, and the past ten months in painting and reassembly, the Hunslet is now pretty much finished I hope. Except for whatever needs tweaking when I steam it for the first time of course!
A few more pictures to follow....
Best regards
Steve
Well, after 35 years, and the past ten months in painting and reassembly, the Hunslet is now pretty much finished I hope. Except for whatever needs tweaking when I steam it for the first time of course!
A few more pictures to follow....
Best regards
Steve