Webster Engine - Part 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Making more Webster parts - exhaust cam, valve blocks, valve guides, valves and shoulder bolt for the rocker arm. Good progress being made but my priorities suddenly changed and I've had to stop work on the project for a week or two. I thought I might as well put a video up showing work to this point. Hope you enjoy it.
Gday Allan, some of these components are fiddlie, from memory I made a jig to drill the cross hole in the valve stem, great progress mate, cheers
Thanks Matty. I'm pleased to see that you are still spending some time in the workshop. Quality time there keeps the rest of the world at bay.
I revisited your Webster video and checked out the jig that you used. I expect I'll do something similar - although I don't have any of those nice clamping Vee blocks.
Cheers, Alan.
Really nice work sir. You can be proud
Thank you.
Hi Allen, some very nice "finicky" work there and it turned out so nice. Enjoyed, cheers!
Thank you.
Great video Alan. I think using a tool that your Dad used is great. I have some of my Dad's tools and even when I'm not using them I like having them in the shop.
Thank you. Two of my favorite pieces are a container for storing hacksaw blades made out of a strut from a Lancaster bomber and a large knife made out of an old file. The knife is a beautiful piece, ground and polished to a shiny finish with an ornate hand-stitched leather scabbard. I have many memories of "helping" him as a child on projects such as a pedal car with plywood body panels shaped by steaming. I feel lucky that some of his skills and inventiveness apparently rubbed off on me :)
Cheers.
Great memories for sure!@@alanshomeworkshop
G'day Alan, first up thanks again for the milling machine info. that's a large lathe for small parts. i was making a couple of small shear pins for my mill in a lathe of that size , awkward. i normally use a BV20 ( chinese) for the small stuff but the forward -- reverse switch has gone to heaven. good job on the valve guide,, keep at it !!!👍👍
Thanks Graedon. A smaller lathe would have been more appropriate but the Hercus doesn't have a DRO - might think about that :)
Cheers.
no 1, Hello Allan
Good'ay Cees. I've been reading about your power problems and cable Tsotsis: th-cam.com/video/liqvp6FWfXI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JAcivKrbgwFFmfNA
That's not going to be an easy nut to crack and makes some of our problems look trivial. Do you have plans for going off the grid ?
Cheers, Alan.
Great work on the cam. Mine was hand filed. I think the design is not for a "precision" or high performance engine. Close enough will work. The rest is pride in workmanship.
Thanks Andrew. I thought about doing it with hand filing, but it was an interesting challenge to model in CAD and derive a cutter path. As for pride in workmanship, I was something of a perfectionist as a young bloke and could only see the faults in what I did. However, I spent my last 20 working years with a big manufacturer and came to accept that more quality than you can justify is a waste of resources. I really admire the quality of work attained by many of the machinists that post videos, but at this stage of my life, I'm more interested in new challenges and problem solving than striving for perfection. In any case my aging eyes hide a lot of the imperfections in my work :)
Cheers, Alan.
Good times making tiny parts on a serious lathe. I laughed at the 0.4mm is metric for can just about see it.. ok it was more than just a laugh...
The "Golden Years'" definitely come with some downsides - but, as they say, better than the alternative. I don't wear glasses all the time - only when I need to see things :) I have several vision aids for detailed work that help eg USB microscope with 21" screen for inspecting insert tips and finding bee's dick metal splinters. But headband magnifiers and similar work at reduced focal length so often don't help when trying to inspect something in situ - just can't get close enough. Anyway, I'm still having fun and enjoying the problem solving. I''m pleased to have brightened your day with a good laugh :)
Cheers, Alan.
@@alanshomeworkshopBe assured I laugh with you at you..... or should I say meetoo