No I don't think so. There are many hours of work and a lot of materials that went into building it. The 5 cams and flywheel started at a 150mm (6") length of 75mm (3 inch) diameter solid brass bar. Most of it ended up as waste swarf! See my other post to your question.
Aah, the cams. That was the key to the whole project and I have not made the TH-cam video yet. One day! To be honest it is easier just to make the curves on flat brass and cut it out by hand with hacksaw and file! BUT I was determined to find a way to do it on the lathe. It worked! You can contact me at AEDLewis at gmail dot com. So you are also building a stamper battery? Where do you live?
@@Evan-e-cent Thanks for the reply. I'll be sure to send an email soon. I'm from QLD, Australia. Looking to make a model stamp to run off my 4" boiler running a small mill type engine, I've seen lots of old model stamps in museums etc., some made out of metal, but I'm going to make mine out of timber framing, with 4 stamps, and keep it as realistic as possible, it's a shame no where online sells kits to make, there's one US company that makes a model stamp, but it's mostly all wood and the stamps are lightweight, it's more for making mining dioramas and western styled dioramas.
@@lilbluedazook I did it the other way around. Built the stamper first and now started building a two cylinder double acting steam engine. Made the cylinder block out of a solid block of brass. It will be a long time before I finish it. Then I have to make a boiler or hook it up to the Hero engine boiler. You may be interested in my web site www.HeroSteamEngine.com about a steam engine designed by the Greeks 2000 years ago. Also my wife wrote a book about the gold rush in 1867. She has an online database of people who register miners rights and claims. It is on the same site: KaeLewis.com. I wrote the software for the online database. Now working on a program to calculate lathe gear trains: www. HeroSteamEngine.com/RideTheGearTrain.
@UC4ImRWRkyZZ6agM8CKh2L3g In response to a question: I built the model stamper battery myself. I have an engineers' lathe but no milling machine. I have a TH-cam channel under the name evanecent with a playlist about using an engineers' lathe. The model is mentioned on the latest video but I have not put up the rest of the videos about how I made it. The big problem was deciding how the cams could be made on a lathe. The problem is that lathes are designed to make round objects and these cams are in the shape of Archimedes Spiral, which is the involute curve of a circle. Anyway I did devise a way to make the cams and keyways. The cams are brass. The stampers, shoes and anvils are stainless steel and the frame is aluminium - all non-rusting materials. I have started building a steam engine to drive the stamper but have been side-tracked by writing software. I have written a free online computer program to work out what gears you need in the gear train of the lathe to produce a thread. The program is called Ride The Gear Train. It is a sub-directory of another site I built about a steam engine designed by the Greeks 2000 years ago. See HeroSteamEngine dot com /RideTheGearTrain
Very interesting!
Can't wait to see how the cams get made
If you haven't seen it already, the video about making cams is now online: th-cam.com/video/GCBjo4tN8sY/w-d-xo.html
Will you be taking orders from the public to buy a model stamper? I am needing one to run off my small steam engine.
No I don't think so. There are many hours of work and a lot of materials that went into building it. The 5 cams and flywheel started at a 150mm (6") length of 75mm (3 inch) diameter solid brass bar. Most of it ended up as waste swarf! See my other post to your question.
Evan, what did you use to make the cams? Is there somewhere I can send you an email to ask a few questions on the one I've started building.
Aah, the cams. That was the key to the whole project and I have not made the TH-cam video yet. One day! To be honest it is easier just to make the curves on flat brass and cut it out by hand with hacksaw and file! BUT I was determined to find a way to do it on the lathe. It worked! You can contact me at AEDLewis at gmail dot com. So you are also building a stamper battery? Where do you live?
@@Evan-e-cent Thanks for the reply. I'll be sure to send an email soon. I'm from QLD, Australia. Looking to make a model stamp to run off my 4" boiler running a small mill type engine, I've seen lots of old model stamps in museums etc., some made out of metal, but I'm going to make mine out of timber framing, with 4 stamps, and keep it as realistic as possible, it's a shame no where online sells kits to make, there's one US company that makes a model stamp, but it's mostly all wood and the stamps are lightweight, it's more for making mining dioramas and western styled dioramas.
@@lilbluedazook I did it the other way around. Built the stamper first and now started building a two cylinder double acting steam engine. Made the cylinder block out of a solid block of brass. It will be a long time before I finish it. Then I have to make a boiler or hook it up to the Hero engine boiler. You may be interested in my web site www.HeroSteamEngine.com about a steam engine designed by the Greeks 2000 years ago. Also my wife wrote a book about the gold rush in 1867. She has an online database of people who register miners rights and claims. It is on the same site: KaeLewis.com. I wrote the software for the online database. Now working on a program to calculate lathe gear trains: www.
HeroSteamEngine.com/RideTheGearTrain.
@UC4ImRWRkyZZ6agM8CKh2L3g
In response to a question: I built the model stamper battery myself. I have an engineers' lathe but no milling machine. I have a TH-cam channel under the name evanecent with a playlist about using an engineers' lathe. The model is mentioned on the latest video but I have not put up the rest of the videos about how I made it.
The big problem was deciding how the cams could be made on a lathe. The problem is that lathes are designed to make round objects and these cams are in the shape of Archimedes Spiral, which is the involute curve of a circle.
Anyway I did devise a way to make the cams and keyways. The cams are brass. The stampers, shoes and anvils are stainless steel and the frame is aluminium - all non-rusting materials.
I have started building a steam engine to drive the stamper but have been side-tracked by writing software. I have written a free online computer program to work out what gears you need in the gear train of the lathe to produce a thread. The program is called Ride The Gear Train. It is a sub-directory of another site I built about a steam engine designed by the Greeks 2000 years ago. See HeroSteamEngine dot com /RideTheGearTrain