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I’ve already bought the prop and glo-plugs ? I’ll blog as I go, the Stuart Victoria blog has attracted over 10,000 hits to date, so it seems worth while to continue with the V8. If I can produce a really good crankshaft then that will give confidence I can deal with the rest. This is the second project out of the workshop, so it’s time to go for the big time – The Whittle V8 is next on the list, I was going to build David Parkers OHV 9cc V-twin, but time to be bold! The plan is to machine the crankshaft first and see how that goes.
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One thing that did prove true was to minimise the number of colours in the paint scheme and I did spend a lot of time getting to the right scheme which has worked out in the end. May be I will one wet weekend, I have made a couple of the fence posts already.
Victoria 2 cut down to size install#
I have made some fencing posts, but at the minute I’m not minded to install a guard rail around the engine. I still have to make a working Meyer expansion valve, but that was always going to be the subject of a project in it’s own right. I don’t intend blogging the detail of that, but will properly drop in some photo’s from time to time as the major stages are complete. While the engine is functionally complete and working properly, there is a cabinet to be made, the various leaks to shut down before moving to live steam. My initial intent was longevity, not ease of maintenance! There is always an upside, you just have to look for it.
Victoria 2 cut down to size mod#
The knocking noise is poor accuracy of machining by me of the inboard crankshaft bearing – if I pump it full of oil the noise goes away…One mod I did make was to fit the brass bearing blocks with Phosphor bronze shells, so I just need to make a new shell, rather than do any work on the bearing block itself.
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Here is the engine running, regulated by the governor. None of the standard commercial valves I found wouldn’t have cut the mustard in this application. I do owe the guy a beer, because his comments took me down the road of thinking about needing a very low friction cut-off valve and ultimately making one to my own design. In other words the energy in two 5/8 inch phosphor bronze balls spinning at 200 ish rpm can be translated into enough rotary force to drive a low friction valve. Well, I can smugly say that this flyball governor DOES work! I have run the engine now on 60PSI compressed air and there is the odd air leak here and there, but the engine just trots along, it should go like the clappers of hell at that pressure and it doesn’t, because the flyballs do rise and do cut-off the air supply and the engine can’t accelerate. When I was in the midst of designing the gear driven governor, I got talking to a guy who had built steam engines on a commercial basis and he explained that flyball governors do not work on this scale, as the laws of physics don’t scale, which is of course perfectly true. I’m also getting better – the grub screw is underneath the lever, out of sight, by design, not accident! Apologies for the image not being spin sharp, but I think it’s good enough to see the design. Solid meant that I could create a shoulder to make space for a 7BA grub screw, rather than rely on Loctite. I used the same profile for the lever as the plan but machining from Instead of fabricating the part as per Stuart plan, I machined the lever from a solid piece of 1/4 inch square bar. I didn’t make it wholly to plan (of course). The last component went on the machine today – the lever, known as part 9 on the governor kit plan, it’s the little lever that picks up the vertical motion from the flyball governor and converts it to rotary motion to drive the steam shut off valve.