fredrosse wrote:"This forum is becoming very monotonous..... " Ron, I hope you are referring to this thread and similar ones. I think many other forum threads are efficiently providing answers to people who just want to get the knowledge and move forward.
Well I want you to know I appreciate discussion and hearing different ideas, or just hear the same idea shouted loudly at me until I absorb it.
This Toledo Tuneup is slated to take some time, so don't expect this thread to disappear.
To recap and quote myself..
Goals:
1) Fabricate new piston valves - possibly with a different profile.
2) Investigate Laser Measure or making latex patterns? Let me know if you would have any interest in either a digital model/scan or pattern or castings.
3) Repaint and/or plate TBD
4) Examine wear and investigate fabrication/machining if necessary
This goals have been whittled down to
1) Fabricate new piston valves - same profile (possibly rings if I can figure this out, but I won't mess with the cylinder block.)
3) Paint but no plating
4) Examine wear and investigate fabrication/machining if necessary
5) Remake stephenson linkage blocks with grinding and hand fitting.
My steam mentor showed yesterday me an example of exactly how to make a pattern with holes in it, and what the cores he made look like and how cattail foundry uses it. It's very impressive, and certainly an art. With no interest right now, and nothing really damaged with what I've got I won't be doing this. I also looked into scanning into a 3D model that could be 3d printed and sent to the foundry, and it can be done - I have no access to scanning equipment that is good enough for this.
-CB
