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23 June 2020 at 20:18 #481793
Ian Johnson 1
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I'm helping to refurbish two very old steam engines on a 1903 coal fired steam tug boat, and when we stripped the starboard pump down I couldn't help but to be impressed with the hand cut oilways.

So let your creative juices flow when cutting your oilways, they don't have to be straight!

IanJ
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23 June 2020 at 20:18 #35955
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23 June 2020 at 20:29 #481796
Grindstone Cowboy
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Just looking at that gives me a haddock!

I'll get me coat…
23 June 2020 at 22:19 #481817
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I thought there was something fishy about it!
23 June 2020 at 22:50 #481820
Mark Rand
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We don't teach children and youfs to use chisels anymore. We should do!
23 June 2020 at 23:00 #481821
Paul Kemp
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That came off a trawler originally. Designed to be run on cod liver oil!

Paul.
23 June 2020 at 23:24 #481824
Grindstone Cowboy
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If you ever get it running again, it'll be a mackerel.

I know my plaice….
23 June 2020 at 23:48 #481825
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People are having a whale of a time here with some great fishy puns but cod do better
24 June 2020 at 00:04 #481827
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Posted by Mark Rand on 23/06/2020 22:50:06:

We don't teach children and youfs to use chisels anymore. We should do!

Maybe we should have a competition for the most artistic hand cut oil ways?

I've seen a couple of youtube videos where people have spent ages meticulously setting up top slides on the mill to machine precise oilways, when it would have been a lot quicker to get the bullnose chisel out and cut some curvy grooves, it will achieve the same result.
24 June 2020 at 08:27 #481838
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Posted by Ian Johnson 1 on 24/06/2020 00:04:35:

Posted by Mark Rand on 23/06/2020 22:50:06:
…cut some curvy grooves, it will achieve the same result.

Will the curve be better at distributing the oil? Or is there no difference in result?

or perhaps negligible difference at workshop loadings and immeasurable?

…sorry I codn’t add a fishy pun…
24 June 2020 at 08:37 #481839
Hopper
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Posted by Mark Rand on 23/06/2020 22:50:06:

We don't teach children and youfs to use chisels anymore. We should do!

They'll just 3D print some oilways up after a quick CAD session scanning in a haddock and computer generating a tool path. Steam engines have moved on since your day , grandpa.
24 June 2020 at 09:09 #481842
NIALL HORN
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It's an Icthys – obviously designed to give divine support in the machine's subsequent life.
24 June 2020 at 09:46 #481848
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I don't think it matters too much what shape the oilways are as long as the oil is distributed on the surfaces.

An Icthys! I never thought a boat would need divine support, I thought that was what the water did
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