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landman

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Here's a little more progress. There is everything from the junkpile in there. Aluminum & copper tubing,MDF,  wooden dowels, sprue, strip styrene. The front handwheels are vinyl washers from my old sheet metal shed. The red "chuck" in the tailstock is from a ball point pen clicker. The grinding wheel is a cutting disc  from my rotary tool kit. Its housing is made from a business card and strip styrene. Who says it has to cost money to have fun.

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Thank you Mr. O'Dell. A bit more progress. Added water tube to grinding wheel housing, adjusted the wheel mount to allw the wheel to reach the crankshaft,. Started working on the controls console.

 

 

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Continued to work on the block. Added material to give it visual interest. Filed the bottom of the block's skirts to make it look like bolt bosses.


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Cut & filed small styrene squares to make crankcase webs.

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Drilled out all the dots.


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Made a bore pattern and proceeded to drill perfectly uneven holes. The drill kept walking.

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Finally redecked it and went to where I should have gone in the first place: the drill press.


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Feeling good again, I drilled some head bolt holes.

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Here is the new, larger room (double the size of the original) which will become the restoration shop. I will continue using it as back drop.


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The left wall will be where most of the benches and tools will be.

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The back wall is  the original back wall with a bathroom door in the new section.

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The right wall is the original right wall with a little section added.

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