Shop Work Page #33


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01/13/05
Below is a video of the boring and facing head on the Lucas HBM in action. This hole was bored to locate the new piston casting in the lathe for turning the OD and ring grooves...

Piston Boring Video Clip
01/17/05 - 01/18/05
This photo shows finishing up turning the OD of the piston to the final diameter...


These next (3) photos show facing the compression end of the piston. Photo #1 shows the face starting to clean up. Photo #2 shows the entire surface being cut. Photo #3 shows the compression end of the piston all faced off...


Photo #1 shows starting to lay out the ring grooves. These will be roughed in and then the width cut to size. Photo #2 shows cutting the first ring groove. Photo #3 shows the rough ring grooves in the piston. Click on the video below to see the grooving tool in action...


This is a video clip of roughing in the piston ring grooves. RPM is 23 and the cross slide is being power fed into a depth of .265...

Rough cutting the piston ring groove, Video Clip
01/22/05
Photo #1 shows a special tool I grind up for cutting the piston ring grooves to width. The right side of the groove is finished and the left side is what will be cut on all (4) ring grooves. Photo #2 shows the actual cut...


Here the piston is turned around in the lathe for facing the back and getting the piston to the finished length. Photo #1 shows facing the piston to length. Photo #2 shows putting a large 30 deg. chamfer on the back of the piston. Photo #3 shows the piston facing and chamfering completed. Photo #4 shows turning the piston around in the lathe...


This photo shows the little nub turned off that had the center drill in it...



01/23/05
Photo #1 shows scribing a line where the wrist pin hole will go through the piston. Photo #2 shows indicating the piston on the Lucas HBM to get the spindle on center with the piston and parallel with the machine table, perpendicular to the center line of the piston. Photo #3 shows center drilling the wrist pin hole...


These (2) photos show drilling the wrist pin hole, stepping up through a few different drill sizes finishing up at a diameter of 1.125...


Photo #1 shows starting to bore the wrist pin hole with the boring head. This will really make for a nice straight true hole. Photos #2 & #3 are of boring the wrist pin hole at different stages. Photo #4 is of the completed wrist pin hole finished to a diameter of 1.188. See below for a small video clip of boring the wrist pin hole...


Below is a video clip of boring the wrist pin hole to size in the piston...

Boring the wrist pin hole in the piston, Video Clip
01/30/05
Here in this photo I am mounting the shaft vise on the vertical mill with the photo showing indicating the vise in. I am getting ready to cut some keyways in a new sideshaft for an Ingersoll Sergeant engine restoration project a friend is working on...


Photo #1 shows the sideshaft for the Ingersoll Sergeant in the lathe with the ends getting faced of and the sideshaft cut to length. Photo #2 shows polishing the shaft before milling in the (3) keyways...


The first photo here shows indicating the sideshaft to the vertical mill spindle. Photo #2 shows cutting the first keyway using a center cutting end mill. Photo #3 shows cutting one of the keyways on the end of the sideshaft. A steady stream of air is blown on the keyway and cutter to keep chips from building up during the cut. Photo #4 shows one of the finished keyways...


A couple of locking spacer rings needed to be made for the sideshaft. Photo #1 shows facing off some stock that we'll make (2) spacers out of. Photo #2 shows parting the stock in (2) pieces. Photo #3 shows one of the spacers mounted on a mandrel for facing and chamfering the other side, after drilling and tapping for a set screw. Photo #4 shows the completed Ingersoll Sergeant sideshaft and spacers with the exhaust cam lobe in place...

01/31/05
After having the 2 HP Cook piston metal sprayed, the following photos show turning the OD. Photo #1 shows facing the back end of the piston. Photo #2 shows the OD starting to clean up. Photo #3 shows the completed OD...


Below is a video clip of turning the 2 HP Cook piston OD...

Turning the 2 HP Cook Piston OD, Video Clip
02/01/05
Below are (3) photos of truing up the piston ring grooves on the 2 HP Cook piston. Photo #1 shows truing the groove up on the right side of all the grooves. Photo #2 shows truing the groove up on the left side. Photo #3 shows the completed 2 HP Cook piston. Time to order the rings...

02/04/05 - 02/05/05
Here in the next (3) photos I did a little more work on the 3 HP motor mount for the Hendy shaper. Photo #1 shows the new serpentine belt pulley mounted on the motor shaft. Photo #2 shows the pulley turned 180 deg. on the motor shaft. After doing some alignment, the pulley needed to be closer to the motor housing. Photo #3 shows some more rework done to the motor mounting plate and the belt in place to take some more preliminary measurements...


I need to make (4) wrist pins for the 8 HP Associated project. Photo #1 shows cutting the wirst pins on the power hacksaw. The material used is O-1 drill rod ordered to size, OD. Photo #2 shows center drilling and facing off the end of the wrist pin...


Photo #1 here shows marking the length of the pin. Photo #2 shows facing the other end of the wrist pin. Also notice I switched to the collect holder on the lathe. Photo #3 shows the first wrist pin completed...

02/08/05
One Saturday February 5th, Stiles Bradley had a small get together for the first starting of a couple of engines he has been working on. The first engine is a 8 HP Evans and the second is a 10 HP Ingersoll Sergeant. Both engines started and ran quite a bit that day. Some photos of the event can be seen at the following link, February 5th, Get together. Below is a sound file of the 8 HP Evans running, with some small video clips of both the Evans and the Ingersoll Sergeant running...

8 HP Evans, sound file

Video from crankshaft end     Video of govenor & head end
Video of cam gear area     Video of slowiung speed down

Video of 10 HP Igersoll Sergeant
02/09/05
I needed to make an offset key. Photo #1 shows indicating the vise to make sure things are parallel. Photo #2 shows milling one of the sides of the key. Photo #3 shows the finished key with a .004 step on each side...


Back to work on the (4) 8 HP Associated wrist pins. Photo #1 shows scribing a line for the OAL using the height gage. Photo #2 shows facing one of the wrist pins to length. Photo #3 shows the (4) wrist pins faced to length...


Photos #1 & #2 show a wrist pin in the piston, making sure things are coming out right. Photo #3 shows making sure the threads go all the way to the finished bored hole for the wrist pin...


Now to put (2) milled flats on each wrist pin where the set screws will contact it. Photo #1 shows milling one of the flats. Photo #2 shows the (4) wrist pins completed...


Shop Work Continued on Page #34
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