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Burrell Traction Engine, Bearings, bushes, Bearing Housings.

Burrell Traction Engine, Bearings, bushes and Bearing Housings.


The bearing housings for the split gearings and the bearings for the shaft tubes are shown below.
The latter being an item I acquired, and simply needed to bore the hole out to 1 inch to suit, these are some sort of (good) Bronze, easy to machine with a high-quality finish.

The castings are in the as-delivered state, and require some thought to machine ....!







The bearing halves for the crank bearing, photo from Bridport foundry. It's bronze material I'm told, I guess its the better new old stock. We will see when I start to machine it. However, all in plus postage £30 for this slab. 

Finally, the finished shaft tubes with the preserving Red Oxide paint finish preventing any unwanted corrosion to the fresh cast-iron surface after machining.   (Note the empty Gin bottles are not all mine I do have help).




A start has been made on the larger of the 2 bearings and a Mild steel accurate gauge plug has been made. This is to aid turning the housing in the lathe as the next operation when the top has been drilled and tapped to locate it. I am basically following another builder's set up for machining this part with the exception I turned the block from a square section rather than trying to accurately divide 4 sides in the dividing head and ending up with a sloping mess.  This way I was able to bore the hole out accurately in the 4 jaw and the block then mounts on a stub arbor that is threaded on the end. (photo perhaps to follow when I get that far)  


More to follow as work progresses..... !!

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