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3" Burrell motion work (Year 6)!

 

3" Burrell motion work (Year 6)!



Happy New Year !! - Well its been a while since my last post and with the festivities over attention can be turned to the progress since last time.
To say that a break was taken from machining is not strictly correct, as often a small amount is squeezed in to keep it ticking over.

This casting, the Way-shaft bracket was actually received just before Christmas, but is intended for my birthday in February, also its currently December, as I'm writing this, ready for next year therefore  ignoring the opening statement. Confused yet? well here we are still building the Burrell and we are into year 6 ! 
  

Finally I made a decision with the lifting links they were basically too short, another builder pointed out on the Burrell builder site on Facebook. That he had the same trouble 20 years ago, I stupidly though as my drawings were the latest version from Bridport foundry that known mistakes from 20 years ago would have been corrected. 
I cut the boss off one end, and machined a new boss up then silver soldered it back on the end. This has given be about an 1/8" increase in it length and now its clears nicely the expansion link so no need to modify this in any way. I was actually very reluctant to mess with this, as I had this part water jet cut to a very high accuracy at a cost of around £46 !!   Often there is no time to make it correctly but there is always time to do it again I hear, and one member on FB commented if we could only make the 2nd one the first time would be great. Well the time to make it from scratch again, against my incredible expertise in solver soldering means we didn't need to go down that route, and as can be seen above its a perfect solution. 
                            
            Until Next month, stay safe, make swarf and be the best you can be, Happy New year!
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