What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Tried a little experiment over night using double strength Orange Barley Water as a rust remover. Quite surprised by the result. This part had the same rust amount all over and just the clean end shown in the photo was immersed in squash over night.

Ed.    Edit: Forgot to add, it was used neat, not diluted.

Edited By Ed Duffner on 05/06/2016 20:03:31

[Roger Provins 2Participant @rogerprovins2]

Probably the citric acid content of the orange ingredient did the work.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

There's a challenge -who can find the most unlikely rust remover? – If there is something less likely than orange barley water…

Neil

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Either of the popular cola drinks on the market work well, look at what they do to a coin after a couple minutes immersed in either of the main brands on the marked.

George.

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

I thought orange barley water came in brown bottles or kegs. Something to be rented etc.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

The ongoing saga of the bee swarms. So far I have taken three swarms from five hives, one I lost as it had gone before I got there. So, that leaves one swarm to come. I went to feed the 3rd. swarm this afternoon and as I did so the 4th. swarm emerged from a hive. It swirled around me and slowly drifted off towards my shed where ii keep my hive bits. Then it settled in a Bramble bush! So, suited up, secateurs in my hand I set to cutting my way through the Bramble stems. I eventually cut out 3 stems with bee clusters on and got them on the catch box and took them down to a Nuc. and put the stems on top and then bumped the rest of the bees onto a sloping board to march in to the Nuc. box. Took almost 2 hours to get them in from swarm issuing to closing down.

Clive

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

s'warm here too – 27 degrees!

Neil

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

We have had a cool Easterly breeze all day and my tell tale thermometer registered 20.9 C

Pleasant now.

Clive

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Not really an engineering topic as lathe is laid up for a few weeks whilst my main hobby takes hold. Sailing from boulogne to dieppe i had to motor due to no wind managed to get this around my prop which stopped me dead. After much reversing and forwarding i managed to get prop turning a little & with the aid of the tide returned to boulogne at 2 kts. I managed to find a diver in 1.5 hours for 50 euros ( not bad considering eastbourne would be £150-00.

this was part of the rubbish

then my wife rang the mother of the md of the propellor manufacturer who was visiting our club ( the mother lives next door to the club so went & collared him) he rang me to talk me through checks to see if the rubber bush in the prop had sheared

all ok so now on my way to channel islands again

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Sam Longley 1 on 07/06/2016 11:38:14:

Not really an engineering topic as lathe is laid up for a few weeks whilst my main hobby takes hold. Sailing from boulogne to dieppe i had to motor due to no wind managed to get this around my prop which stopped me dead. After much reversing and forwarding i managed to get prop turning a little & with the aid of the tide returned to boulogne at 2 kts. I managed to find a diver in 1.5 hours for 50 euros ( not bad considering eastbourne would be £150-00.

this was part of the rubbish

then my wife rang the mother of the md of the propellor manufacturer who was visiting our club ( the mother lives next door to the club so went & collared him) he rang me to talk me through checks to see if the rubber bush in the prop had sheared

all ok so now on my way to channel islands again

Photo hasn't worked see POSTING PHOTOS

You're lucky – on of my stepsons had to clear a prop in the mid-Atlantic.

Neil

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Apart from PC problems managed to get back to the flash steamer to repair cylinder head and make new valve seat and guide not too hard but so many other things to do.

Will make a separate seat then press into the head shown.

Generator to weld up then all the various settings to alter its aerodynamics.

Have to decide what to do put the canards back on and alter prop skeg angle or put the big wing on the front.

Did 127mph with the wing on but found out later steam pressure was down due to the cracked valve seat but drag must have been great.

Hope to be ready for Kingsbury on Sunday but time is in short supply then the following Tuesday will be at Elvington with the top speed brigade.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

by Neil Wyatt on 07/06/2016 13:17:36:

Posted by Sam Longley 1 on 07/06/2016 11:38:14:

Not really an engineering topic as lathe is laid up for a few weeks whilst my main hobby takes hold. Sailing from boulogne to dieppe i had to motor due to no wind managed to get this around my prop which stopped me dead. After much reversing and forwarding i managed to get prop turning a little & with the aid of the tide returned to boulogne at 2 kts. I managed to find a diver in 1.5 hours for 50 euros ( not bad considering eastbourne would be £150-00.

this was part of the rubbish

then my wife rang the mother of the md of the propellor manufacturer who was visiting our club ( the mother lives next door to the club so went & collared him) he rang me to talk me through checks to see if the rubber bush in the prop had sheared

all ok so now on my way to channel islands again

Photo hasn't worked see POSTING PHOTOS

You're lucky – on of my stepsons had to clear a prop in the mid-Atlantic.

Neil

I give up. Using wifi in french harbours is a nightmare. As for reading the mag on pocket mags i had hoped to be able to read as i went along—- forget it !!!!!!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

They let me access the Model Engineer Twitter Account! Mad, impetuous fools!

twitter.com/modelengineers

Mini-updates at irregular intervals.

Yes I will remember "too many tweets makes a politician…"

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The phone book came today. long and narrow and less than 1/4" thick. I guess it's about 1/16 the size of the old phone books. I doubt it will ever emerge from its plastic wrapper, I really don't know why they bother any more.

Neil

[modeng2000Participant @modeng2000]

Re the phone book, I live on the border of two counties. We used to get (a long time ago) a phone book that included part of the adjacent county. Now it is just the one in which we live and as you can imagine, most of the numbers we need to look up are over the border!. Don't bother with it much these days, much prefer to use the on-line directory.

John

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

It used to look good when you tore an old phone book in half but now it is less impressive.

Mike

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

We still have a telephone book here, it's been shrunk, but if you ring the company, they will send a magnifying glass so you can read it. Total size is 245 mm x 190 mmx 38 mm. Ian S C

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

I wonder if they charge less for the adverts? Which would be a self-defeating spiral…

[David lawrence 3Participant @davidlawrence3]

Hi All, just moved my new Warco wm240 lathe into my small basement workshop with the help of a cheap engine crane from ebay, £ 105.00. works well. and some rollers to move the lathe around the patio area, metal table legs from IKEA. The basement is only down 4 steps but 110 Kgs is too much for me to lift so I rolled it down 1 section of an Aluminium ladder. All went well, no problems. I can now spend all weekend cleaning the protective shipping oil from all of the lathe, looks like they just sprayed oil everyware, but the lathe looks good, just ideal for me.

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Given that there has recently been an article in the mag. about machining metal to look like castings I thought I would take a picture of one of my attempts. It's not model engineering but full size but serves well to show what can be achieved.

The crank cases are for a 1929 Humber 350 O.H.C. engine, a rare beast indeed.I purchased along with my son in law a basket case restoration project. When we examined the contents we found that all there was left of the engine below the cylinder were the crankshaft main journals. Despite many adverts for a set of crank cases none were forthcoming.

Armed with a camera and tape measure I went to the National Motor cycle museum and got permission to take close up pictures and measurements of their Humber. I also found in the service booklet for my 1929 OHV a very nice drawing on tracing paper of the 350OHC Engine. Although only about 4 inches high and two views the detail on the drawing was amazing. I scanned the drawing and converted it using Auto Cad into DWG format. I was then able to scale the drawing back up to full size. I found, to my amazement that the dimensions of the drawing were accurate and measured well next to the main journals that I had, being within about .005".

From these drawings I was able to machine the crank case and timing case + Cover from the solid.

4 Pieces of HE-30 were used to make both the Crank Case halves as well as the inner and outer timing cover. The Humber logo was engraved using a Dremel by my son in law, don't ask me how he did it but I was amazed at the results.

Machining was carried out on an old Axminster round column mill using a 6" rotary table with a sub plate mounted on the rotary table to enable the 8" diameter (approx) billets to be clamped for machining.

I used mainly 5/8" did long series end mills some of which I had to braze extensions to to enable me to reach the depths I needed. I also used some woodworking Router cutters for radiusing the outer diameters and the inner corner radii etc.

I have done quite a few things this way and have successfully made my own pistons from the solid for both the Side valve and other peoples OHC Humbers.

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

I forgot to add that the cast look was achieved by sand blasting the cases after moving all machine marks and blending in all the radii using a dremel, emery paper and elbow grease.

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Wow!

That is really impressive work Bob. I doubt that anyone looking at the machine would know that it is not the original cast crankcase.

I can totally see the purpose and reason for creating a 'fake' to restore a rare vehicle but I'm less convinced about doing the same for a machine tool (although Michael Green does make a good case for it in MEW)

Ian P

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Hi Ian,

now that I have CNC milling capabilities I tend to make all sorts of shapes from solid that would have been cast in years gone by. It's so easy to do using 3-d drawing and CAM programmes.

[Clive HaynesParticipant @clivehaynes74488]

I would love to get into cnc and 3d printer but I can't be bothered to go through the computer learning curve.

Well done Bob, nice work, must be very satisfying.

Clive

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Despite a little drizzle we decided to go ahead with the driver training day as the locos are used to being a bit wet on the outside when an overfilled boiler sends a shower over all and after a while it eased off and the sun sort of appeared. By then the trains were running and a good time was had by all. Nice to see the odd sailing member had turned up to expand their range of activities.

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