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This little project was completed for work, when someone made me a bet that I couldn't make a running engine using only a milling machine.

Many of the apprentices made this successfully and goes to prove you don't always need a lathe to do the round bits.

Please have a look at the album and when I get a couple I'll write up the build log.

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Edited By FMES on 22/09/2018 13:00:12

Edited By JasonB on 22/09/2018 13:15:05

As I have dry lined walls in my workshop I used Terry clips screwed to the wall

**LINK**

It wouldn't be too difficult to get a bunch of these  and screw them to a piece of ply etc

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Edited By FMES on 22/09/2018 11:58:42

Edited By FMES on 22/09/2018 12:08:00

Very doubtful.

Something needs to hold the cylinder in place, and as you say, cast as one piece for cutting later.

Edited By FMES on 10/09/2018 19:07:02

It depends on what position / tool holder is used, the handle will move accordingly, sometimes putting it in an inconvenient position.

Its a bit awkward when using multi-tools at the same time.

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Hi John, am I guessing you are running on air?

There is no expansion available using air so the pressure supplied to the second cylinder wil be lower, also you are relying on the exhaust from the first engine to be exactly in time with the inlet to the second.

If the two cylinders are the same bore then I would suggest that you run it as a 'twin' rather than a compound.

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Hi All,

Just spotted this on one of the local auction sites **LINK**

Might be useful

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Probably why they're called 'Yorkshire' Fittings!

Tim,

Have you considered Plasma Spraying? we used it on aircraft engine crankshafts to rebuild when badly scored, and then grind back to the original profile.

No reason why your cam couldn't be built up and then sent for re grinding.

Just a thought

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Before you consider scrapping the boiler, consider if it was constructed correctly to the current drawings at the time. There is aboslutely nothing stopping it being hydraulically tested to the load you require, and 'if' it fails you will have your answer.

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I thought he used a 'Waterman'

Sorry,

Never had any problems with mine for 22 years, Perhaps my half a brain cell works better than a full brain.

Ahhh yes, the ownership of a Land Rover usually requires the owner to have a good degree of engineering knowledge and ability.

Despite best efforts within a large engineering training school it has been painfully obvious with only a very few exceptions, that the youth of today are not particularly interested in anything that cannot be completed immediately and only by the use of their thumbs.

I recall only one lad that actually had a natural interest in all things engineering and that was out of around three hundred apprentices that passed through the school.

Nowadays the tendency is 'learn something, sit the exam and forget it' very little recall, and a great deal of skill fade if not practised for a couple of weeks.

These guys, and gals for that matter, are taught differently in schools today, and anything practical that harks back to anything steam related (Nuclear excepted) just isn't interesting to them.

I used to get them to build a small oscillating engine using only hand tools and the milling machine, and despite their apparent wonder when it actually ran on completion, their next question woiuld in the main be 'How much could I get for it on ebay'

But its not just Model Engineering, Crafts on the whole are dissapearing.

Sad really.

Have you by any chance stuck the welding wire to the feed nozzle?

Get a pair of pliars and pull the wire off the end.

Sometimes this happens and the feed stops, but the actual feed motor is still running with the feed roller slipping on the wire.

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Dave,

Your paper is quite correct, the Ion exchange process does indeed add a small amount of Sodium to the outlet water by the way of Ion exchange, but NOT as a result of using the brine to regenerate the resin.

Quote "

In other words, if your water test tells you that you have 18 grains per gallon hardness, installing a water softener will add about 35 milligrams of sodium to each 8 oz. glass of water you drink.

To put this in perspective, a tablespoon of catsup has 204 mg. of sodium and a slice of whole wheat bread has 211."

**LINK**

Household softeners are not normally reverse osmosis types.

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The post was referring to softened water, - that which had been processed through a 'softener'.

Your statement that calcium salts were replaced by Sodium salts simply isn't true.

The Brine solution is used to 'clean' the anionic resin which has captured the unwanted minerals during use, at the end of a cycle, and is known as a resin regeneration.

This 'regeneration' washes the brine / mineral mix to the drain and is followed in the norm by at least two pure water rinses including a backwash, to remove any trace of the sodium from the resin tank.

So in effect while you may not be getting additional calcium , magnesium and additional dissolved salts, you aren't as I said before, getting any more sodium in a glass of softened water than you are in a glass of cows milk.

Softened water also helps with the reduction of eczema in children when used for washing purposes.

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For info, there is less sodium in a glass of softened water than there is in a glass of cows milk.

So is not in any way harmful to adults, although there is the said recommendation for not giving it to babies, although a decent RO Filter will take out any impurities that may have been left behind.

The water company will also make a recommendation to keep one tap 'untreated' as they cannot guarantee the quality of the product if additional conditioning / treatment is carried out after theirs.

And its 'softened' not soft.

By the way, whats wrong with drinking softened water?

Salt is a lot cheaper than loo cleaner, and have you looked inside your cisterns lately?

Softened water will keep it spotless.

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