Stuart Turner 10V (15/07/05)

My parents bought this for me as a kit for my birthday. The kit comes with the bare castings and stock materials. You've got to machine all the components to make the engine. It took about 1 month to complete. Check out Stuart Turner's site at http://www.stuartmodels.com/.

Here's some pictures of the construction. They aren't in any particular order!

Cylinder & Covers

View of the cylinder showing the slide valve ports and the steam way recesses.

Another view of the cylinder

The bottom cylinder cover being turned down in the lathe. The piston rod slides in this and the gland nut screws into the opposite side.

Drilling the bolt holes in the bottom cylinder cover using the rotary table in the milling machine.

Drilling bolt holes in the top cylinder cover.

Partly assembled

Bearings

The bearings are made from a specially shaped extrusion of brass stock. The entire piece of brass is drilled and reamed in the lathed. The two bearings are then cut from it.

To turn down the ends of the bearings, I made a little expanding mandrel in the lathe.

The finished bearings with oil cups.

Using the mill to mill recesses for the bearings in the soleplate. I wrote a G-code program that moved the endmill in the X-Z plane to cut a semicircle. I then finished it off with files.

I discovered that the undersides of the bearings (where they are bolted to the soleplate) were not in line, so I had to mill them flat. I used the rotary table in the mill mounted so its axis was horizontal. I used the expanding mandrel to hold the bearings to machine them.