Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Youtube Advice - Stuart 10V

Youtube Advice

Tinker John Tinker John

Tinker John offered a great series on his build of the Stuart 10V, which is very similar to the D10. Video on of the series can be found here.

The only problem with this video series is that the author did not provide a video index. I took the liberty of providing the following table to help identify which video contains which content.


Episode Number Content
1 Intorduction to parts
2 Background information and Boxbed discussion
3 Boxbed
4 Soleplate
5 Crankshaft (forged type)
6 Crankshaft (forged type)
7 Crankshaft (forged type)
8 Crankshaft (forged type)
9 Crankshaft and workshop chat
10 Crankshaft (fabricated type)
11 Crankshaft (fabricated type)
12 Eccentric
13 Eccentric
14 Crankshaft bearings
15 Crankshaft bearings
16 Crankshaft bearings
17 Flywheel
18 Flywheel
19 Standard
20 Standard
21 Cylinder
22 Cylinder
23 Cylinder
24 Crosshead
25 Piston
26 Piston
27 Piston rod
28 Cylinder cover (top)
29 Cylinder cover (top)
30 Cylinder cover (top)
31 Cylinder cover (bottom)
32 Cylinder cover (bottom)
33 Shop talk
34 Shop talk
35 Shop talk
36 Shop talk
37 Cylinder gland nut
38 Soleplate
39 Boxbed and soleplate fit up
40 Valve Chest
41 Valve Chest
42 Valve Chest & Valve Chest Cover fit up
43 Shop talk
44 Valve Chest & Cylinder fit up
45 Valve rod
46 General fit up
47 Q&A
48 Connecting Rod
49 Connecting Rod
50 Connecting Rod
51 Connecting Rod
52 Connecting Rod
53 Connecting Rod
54 Connecting Rod& Crankshaft
55  Eccentric Rod
56 Shop talk
57 Cylinder cover (top) & General Fit Up
58 Cylinder cover (top) bolting
59 Cylinder cover (bottom) bolting
60 Gaskets
61 First Run

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Videos

Running the pistons in using a battery drill

Running in pistons and eccentrics

Running in pistons and eccentrics with flywheel

Low speed run

High speed run



Running-in

Running the engine in on a battery drill

Running-in

Running-in

Running-in

Running-in

Adjusting the timing

Adjusting the timing

Bolting & Assembly

Drilling bolt holes through the valve chest. Note brass drift fabricated to ensure concentric hole alignment during drilling.

Drilling bolt holes. Note that each hole required three chuck operations. 1: Use wobbler to align drill over target. 2: Centre drill hole. 3: Drill hole to size.
 
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Drilling and trapping bolt holes in cylinder block 

Stacked up cylinder and valve chest 

Stacked up cylinder, valve chest  and cover.

Assembled components. 

Drilling the cylinder covers 

Using the cylinder cover to transfer the bolt pattern to the engine standard. 

Completed engine standard.

 Stacked up assembly 

Bearings, crank shaft and sole plate fit up

Bearings with bolting installed

Drilling the standard's feet - hole alignment with the wobbler

Drilling the standard's feet



Thursday, 19 January 2017

Steam Manifold Piping

Indexing threaded fitting for the steam delivery pipe

Steam deliver pipe

Steam delivery components

Assembled components post soldering

Boxbed & Soleplate

Boxbed and soleplate castings

Milling the top surface of the soleplate

Milling the bearing cups with a ball-nose end mill

Completed soleplate

Boxbed milled and tapped, with securing bolts


Stacked up boxbed and soleplate







Glands Nuts

Raw stock of valve rod gland nuts

Completed gland nut and raw stock

Piston rod gland nut threaded into holder bar, ready for indexing on the dividing head

Cutting tightening slots

Indexed nut 

Completed piston rod gland nuts

Holder bar


Standards

Raw standard casting

Milling the top face of standard, to allow it to be reversed for milling of the feet

Standard after milling top and bottom surfaces

Facing the top face of the standards to bring it to dimension and ensure that it's parallel with the feet

Boring the standard


One completed standard
 
Completed standard

Completed standards

Valve chests

Raw castings

Facing the surface towards the cylinder, held in four jaw chuck, held with parallels for support

Valve chest mounted in the four jaw chuck, facing upper and

Finished valve chest and raw casting

Completed valve chests

Machining the valve chest cover in the four jaw chuck

Completed valve chest cover and raw casting