Artistic hand cut oilways

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

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

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Just looking at that gives me a haddock!

I'll get me coat…

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

I thought there was something fishy about it!

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

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

[Paul KempParticipant @paulkemp46892]

That came off a trawler originally. Designed to be run on cod liver oil!

Paul.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

If you ever get it running again, it'll be a mackerel.

I know my plaice….

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

People are having a whale of a time here with some great fishy puns but cod do better

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

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.

[RichardNParticipant @richardn]

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…

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

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.

[NIALL HORNParticipant @niallhorn50878]

It's an Icthys – obviously designed to give divine support in the machine's subsequent life.

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

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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