Member postings for Peter Krogh

Thank you Paul and Duncan! As soon as I read "...to cushion the piston." it was one of those 'duh slap the forehead' moments. That feature prevents knocking the heads off with a flying piston!

Another learning moment brought to me by this Model Engineer Board.

Pete

OK, now you've gone and confused me even more.... the steam pump. Why are there two steam ports for each end of the engine??? I've never seen that before!

Thanks,

Pete

Thanks for the cool info, Reg!! It all makes sense of course...

Pete

I've seen a lot of cent. pumps but never one with an intake arranged like that one!!

Great illustration...

Pete

Ahhh, what dumb yanky sheet metal workers call a shear...

Thanks!

Pete

What is that machine? What does it do?

Ignorant yank here....

Pete

Now that's some great information!! Thanks.

Pete

Edited By Peter Krogh on 02/03/2017 08:35:41

I've always used just my hands to hold the wheel. I never found I had to tighten the nut more than that.

Pete

So much for the notice... Hopefully the move works first time, the admins have had quite a bit of trouble lately.

Pete

I just watched the video in the link, Bazyle. I must say that you have an excellent program going there.

Congratulations to all.

Pete

Here's one:

http://www.gasenginemagazine.com/gas-engines/diy-brass-nameplates

Pete

I'd sure like to see the post number right up there in the green stripe, plain and obvious!!

Pete

In the marine applications I'm familiar with, the 'large' pump, the vacuum pump or wet air pump, pulls a vacuum in the condenser shell which 1) lowers the pressure which causes greater pressure across the LP cylinder, 2) by lowering the pressure causes the steam to cool and condense faster, and 3) pumps the condensate out to the hot well. The hot well is where the oil and crud is separated from the condensate which is then fed to the boiler by the 'small' pump. Oil in a boiler will ruin it very quickly as it burns on to the surfaces and seriously interferes with steaming.

I have an excellent document (30 pages of .pdf) on the subject. If you are interested I will email it to you. I don't know how to 'link' it here.....

Pete

Bazyle and I were typing at the same time... The document I mention is specifically about the Edwards air pump which was designed for the wet pump function and is the best for the purpose.

Edited By Peter Krogh on 30/11/2016 13:42:00

I wasn't going to mention the rust stain patterns.....along with the blood.

I'm not a farrier, just have done shoeing back when under Grandads watchful eye...

Pete

Edited By Peter Krogh on 16/11/2016 04:39:18

That is, I think, a ferriers tool for trimming hooves...

Pete

And then there's the infantry favorite....

BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!

Pete

POTS.....

Plain Old Telephone System

Yeah, it's real, at least over here!

Pete

Oh yes, I did! We won't talk about the other....

Pete

And a rather strange one:

PUNTS....... People of Utterly No Tactical Significance.

Must be a military thing....

Pete

I have never seen a mill, or lathe, where turning the handle clockwise moves the table towards the operator.

Pete