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Hi, For a few weeks now I've been nibbling away at pieces of cast iron bar to make the basic 'castings' for a marine condensing compound, the drawings for which were first published in a series in Model Engineer May 1923 and found on the John Tom free plans site. A fairly large engine with an LP cylnder of 3" dia. it is not a scale model per se but one based on full size practices. Though the size was too big to contemplate the drawings were very alluring so the series was downloaded and printed off. It printed at the size of the original ME format so the three major drawings were then done a...

John Tom Butler Kilnagross, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim. Wednesday, 20th Januaary, in the tender loving care of the Doctors, Nurses and Staff of

I don't think many decent sized marine steam engines had flywheels, instead they relied on the inertia in the shafting and prop and were flange drive. All the large marine diesels I have worked on have had flange mounted flywheels, no keys just fitted bolts and high torque. If a flywheel were fitted to a small marine steam engine I would expect it would be secured with a taper gib head key. That's how traction engine flywheels and line shaft pulleys etc were retained, having had to remove some I can vouch for how tight they can hang on! Either that or mounted on a taper on the end of the cr...

0 cardinals. this team was not a likeable team two years ago. >> no. at the beginning of last season. and i'm alone here. the team wasn't likeable at the beginning of the year last year because of the way they turned on their manager in the first week even when it wasn't his fault. i still think he got a bum rap. they weren't likeable. we dumped $250 million in payroll and i remember sting and other people around, you know what? that's a win for us. that's our world series this year. we'll be good in three or four years. nobody expect this. >> going from last to first to winning the world's ch...

0 ribbon and a liberty bell that changes color when you tilt it. this is aimed at slowing counter fitters who love to counterfeit this bill. many americans don't really use $100 bills. it's a different story abroad. the number tonight is 6 5. the percentage of $100 bills in circulation held outside the united states, according to a federal reserve study. wonder how many are used for nefarious purposes. "anderson cooper 360" starts now. significant new developments tonight. breaking news. a lot to tell you here and overseas. investigators not just scrambling to learn who turned tamerlan tsarn...