Category Archives: Stuart Turner Beam Engine

The finished valve chest, valve, push rod and chest cover. Mostly lathe and milling machine work, details were hand-filed.

 The connecting rod between centres being “fishbellied”. This item is one of the more complex ones, being cross-drilled, bored, turned and eventually hand shaped. The “fishbelly” effect is really two opposing tapers of about two degrees inclusive, one end was turned and the rod flipped over for the other end. … Continue reading… →

The belt grooves being turned in the face of the pulley. I had to grind up a cutter specially for this as they are half-round grooves. Spacing was taken care of by using the top slide to advance the cutter by an equal division of the face width. The bore … Continue reading… →

The crankshaft and main bearings. The tops of the bearing blocks are drilled and tapped ready for the oil-cups. Final finishing still needs to be done on the bearings.The bearings were turned in the four-jaw chuck on the lathe.  

As it was on 17/06/2006, all that remains to be done is to make the eccentric strap and sheave, parallel motion linkage and then to clean up all the rough edges, test and paint it. Then it needs a nice polished base to mount it on. 30/06/2006 – The finished … Continue reading… →