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I’m fairly new to using rivets and the 1/16th inch solid rivets are taking me some time to master. Therefore, I thought it would be important to share some of my learning. My use for [more…]
There are a few different ways to do brass etching, but having learnt how to do this with a really simple method I just had to share it. The real drive for this is to [more…]
I’m sure that if I look around I can find a belt length calculation tool, but that would spoil the fun of me making the calculation and then checking it is correct. Two circles of [more…]
Should boiler end plates on a copper boiler be concave or convex? Is there a reason they go one way or the other? One reason for the convex endplates is that I intend to rivet [more…]
I’ve been reading so much about copper boiler making and materials that I thought I would pull a page together on the subject of Brass Fittings and Boilers. The research was based around the miniature traction [more…]
When I run engines on compressed air I often wonder about the efficiency. A large electric motor driving a piston compressor that is in turn supplying a small engine that is sometimes barely able to [more…]
Geared device between the driven wheels to allow varying rotational speeds of the wheels around corners. We see differentials in everything from the Chinese cart that has an arrow that always points south, in steam [more…]
A battery pack design could be for a single or group of cells arranged in series and parallel, depending on application this may include: thermal control, electrical switching and management system. In it’s simplest for [more…]
One of the most important considerations in fan design is that the fan must impart a uniform velocity over it′s entire area. There are several simple relationships between fan capacity, pressure, speed, and power, which [more…]
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