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Deck mounted steam winch?

Started by lab-dad, July 17, 2013, 05:45:10 AM

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5thwheel

After you dye the parts will they then hold paint?
Bill Hudson
Fall down nine times,
get up ten.

finescalerr

Maybe you first tap the parts to die them, then have a funeral. -- ssuR

SandiaPaul

The dye does not make them hold paint, it just colors them.

Paul
Paul

lab-dad

If you guys recall I have used a few of these gears previously.
Not to worry.

Got the large capstans fabricated.
They started life as 1 1/2" long pieces of 1" bar.


TRAINS1941

-MJ

Your usual fine machine work.  They look great.

Jerry
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
George Carlin

Max Corey

Good looking winch.  Are you going to make the plumbing out of brass?  I need to scratch one for a tug boat in 1/48 scale and the info in this thread has been invaluable.
A screw up on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

marc_reusser

Looking good Marty. Welcome back.
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

lab-dad

Max,
I would get a hold of a CHB "donkey" to use as a start for a winch in 1:48.

Anyway, I am finished with the winch.
I'm happy but not excited about the end result.
I think not having any good plans or reference photos really killed my enthusiasm.
I had to make a lot of "assumptions" which I don't like to do.
Hopefully my knowledge of steam donkeys may have helped?....







Thanks for looking.
I'm hoping to get back on the Shay and machine shop next!
-Marty

NORCALLOGGER

Quote from: lab-dad on November 29, 2013, 01:20:35 PM

Anyway, I am finished with the winch.
I'm happy but not excited about the end result.
-Marty

Well You should be that is beautifully done!!!
But what am I missing, I don't see the steam exhaust?

finescalerr

You could have done worse. -- Russ

Max Corey

Looks very good and very feasible.  You have the plumbing right and the brake and clutch levers right my only thought...

The main side plates seem strange.  Every donkey or hoist I have seen used a cast iron side plate and it had openings and ridges around the edge and openings cast in.  But you probably know more than me.  Looks like a live steamer and could work.

Kemtron used to and may still sell accurate donkey engine and hoist plans drawn up by the late and great Al Armitage.
A screw up on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

Arno Boudoiron

Looks very good  8)

Quote from: lab-dad on November 29, 2013, 01:20:35 PM
I'm hoping to get back on the Shay and machine shop next!
:)  :)  :)

TRAINS1941

-MJ

Looks great to me.  Glad your going back to the Shay!!!

Jerry
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
George Carlin

Hauk

Looking good!
How did you finish the brass parts? Is it some sort of plating?
Regards, Hauk
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lab-dad

Thanks guys, your too kind!

Norcal - the steam exhaust is closest to the main drum and goes straight down.

Max your right, i should have added the perpendicular plates or ridges.

Hauk I dipped the brass capstans into a blackening agent, they went really dark!
Must be a different type of alloy (free machining naval brass I'm told from the supplier)
I could not get the effect to work on any other brass I have.
They are the best part of the model - I think!

-Mj