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Whose engine in this first ever Mod-Up deserves the coveted Brass Machine trophy!?

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Voting closed: February 17, 2015, 10:51:43 AM

Author Topic: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up  (Read 122834 times)

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2015, 06:15:38 PM »
Well ya gotta start somewhere..... 1/2" CI pipe union:


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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2015, 06:19:41 PM »
Bored 3/4" first, then mounted on the conveniently sized 3/4" center spindle of the faceplate. Bolted the dog through the slot, and started turning the end...

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2015, 06:24:18 PM »
And faced and turned both ends:

Looks a little more like a steam cylinder now.....




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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2015, 07:03:34 AM »
Have you finished it yet? :lol:....OZ.
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2015, 11:43:00 AM »
Haven't even exactly thought of what I'm going to do with it yet, OZ! :scratch: :lol:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2015, 02:59:55 PM »
Oh,I see it's one of those 'We'll just machine some bits of metal and decide what it's gonna be later on'

If you want a good laugh you want to see the sizes of the cast pipe fittings my mate gave me a couple of weeks back.  They came out of an old commercial laundry business and there is nothing smaller than
1.5 inches dia  :jaw: and a few are  2.5 inch dia.

I think we may be stretching the definition of 'Model engine' if I use them  :lol:  Maybe I could hook it up to the 1 kilowatt Markon alternator that I have kicking round to provide a back up gen set for those power cut eventualities :lol: ......OZ.
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2015, 06:27:27 PM »
Oh,I see it's one of those 'We'll just machine some bits of metal and decide what it's gonna be later on' ......OZ.

That's what I call planning ahead.
All the planning is ahead of me!  :beer:

Hey, 1.5 inch bore ain't exactly a mill engine. Get crackin' ! :poke:

Uh, happened to discover a 3/8" mark on my cylinder, so I guess it was a 3/8" pipe union, not a 1/2" as I originally said.    Now it's 3/4" bore, though. :dremel:

So today I dug out a (I think) 1" galvanized pipe cap with a hole in it from an earlier experiment with pulse jets. The hole was off center, but I planned to drill it out big enough to get a boring bar in it, and then true it up to center. Unfortunately that didn't go well. I chewed up the end of my 5/8" drill pretty bad before realizing there ws a hard spot in the cast iron.  :doh:




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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #32 on: January 05, 2015, 06:38:26 PM »
Well I don't have any carbide drills, so after thinking about for a bit I figured I might try to see if I could anneal the darn thing in the woodstove in the house. It had a big pile of hot embers in it (it's been super windy last night and today and we're headed down to the negative numbers Fahrenheit for the next week) -- being well stoked. So I buried the fitting in the embers and opened the draft up, and let her cook. I figured it would also deal with the zinc coating -- right up the chimney.

When I pulled it out cherry red, I buried it in some wood ashes in a bucket. A half hour later this is what it looked like cooked. The area where the "C" is was the hard spot -- you can see the crap job I did with the drill!

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #33 on: January 05, 2015, 06:43:17 PM »
Slapped it onto the Gingery lathe, and it drilled, and bored, and turned, nice as you please......cut like buddah!  :ddb:



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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #34 on: January 05, 2015, 06:51:22 PM »
So I'm kinda thinking along these lines:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #35 on: January 05, 2015, 06:55:37 PM »
But then I thought, nah, I want to see the woiks! So I started sawing away with me hacksaw:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #36 on: January 05, 2015, 07:00:03 PM »
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #37 on: January 05, 2015, 07:40:49 PM »
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #38 on: January 05, 2015, 07:48:32 PM »
Here's where I left it this evening:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #39 on: January 05, 2015, 09:24:48 PM »
It is hard to believe the piece you took out of the stove is the same piece holding the cylinder right now.

Great start!

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #40 on: January 06, 2015, 10:30:44 AM »
Well Eric, as I always say, rusty is only skin deep!  :dremel:


....was happy to discover you could anneal chilled cast iron, btw. I didn't know that. Could solve a lot of problems.
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #41 on: January 10, 2015, 04:29:32 PM »
Since there are no other contestants (so far) I've got this one nailed!



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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #42 on: January 11, 2015, 12:04:35 PM »
Only half an idea but i am thinking about air driven at the moment and like you vtstream I am making it up as I go along. So far I have the beginnings of a piston.
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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #43 on: January 11, 2015, 03:26:55 PM »
WooHooo!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :clap:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #44 on: January 11, 2015, 05:19:03 PM »
Thanks shipto!  :beer:

Well, today I decided I needed some flat stock, so:



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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #45 on: January 11, 2015, 05:21:24 PM »
Cutting down on the seam:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #46 on: January 11, 2015, 05:23:09 PM »
Then crosswise:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #47 on: January 11, 2015, 05:24:54 PM »
And then flatten the pieces with a hammer:

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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #48 on: January 11, 2015, 05:28:06 PM »
Cut them into pieces and file them in the vise to clean them up:


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Re: Pipe and Bolt Engine Mod-Up
« Reply #49 on: January 11, 2015, 10:11:21 PM »
Cut them into pieces and file them in the vise to clean them up

If nothing else, you should get a huge prize for creative misuse of plumbing hardware.