My Kinner K5

[CFLBob]

Your workmanship is beautiful to the point of awe-inspiring.

I'm going to throw out a compliment on something else. Your photography is also masterful. Excellent use of lighting and even use of focus.

 

[gpcoe]

Your workmanship is beautiful to the point of awe-inspiring.

I'm going to throw out a compliment on something else. Your photography is also masterful. Excellent use of lighting and even use of focus.

Thanks for the praise, but I owe the photo quality mostly to my Galaxy S10 and the LED lights I installed in the workshop. I do work to get the focus right and a decent background, but it's still mostly the phone.

The lighting is excellent day or night.

 

[a41capt]

Such beautiful work. Quite an inspirational piece for a guy working hard at Completing a Webster!
I can’t wait to see the first run, it’ll be spectacular!

John W

 

[gpcoe]

It's been a while. I have had some other projects including mounting a DRO on my lathe. .0002“ resolution on both X/Z. It was really helpful in making bronze bushings for the rockers. I pushed a set in and checked the compressed ID and adjusted my boring to get it right. Will be working on installing valve guides and seats in the heads next.

 

[petertha]

Nice rockers. I'm curious if they have been hardened or you intend to on the curved valve stem face?

 

[gpcoe]

The rockers were made of 4140 pre-hard, which is around RC30.

 

[gpcoe]

Forgot to post this last week. I finished off the cylinder heads. Turned the valve seats, then pressed them into the heads after pressing in the guides. I decided to ream the guides and turn the seat angles in line by mounting onto a fixture chucked in the lathe. Did 30°, 44°, 60° with 45° on the valves. Seams to seal nicely when putting compressed air through the ports. I will lap the valves when I start final assembly. I had to mock assemble at least one head.

 

[gpcoe]

I have been working on the intake manifold since the beginning. It's two split halves assembled and then finish machined for the flanges for the intake pipes and carburetor. I had been putting off finishing because I could not decide how I wanted to do the pipe interface. I finally decided on a 2 stud flange. The two halves are bolted together with shoulder bolts to accurately re-align them if disassembly is necessary. It worked out really well. I then finish turned the OD for the assembled halves and the gearcase all at once for a seamless OD.

 

[Badhippie]

GPCOE
That is a beautiful 10EE you have there it must be a pleasure to work with
Tom

 

[gpcoe]

It's pretty worn out, as old as it is (1943). It is still far better than anything I could have bought for the cost. It's definitely nice to work with and can take fairly aggressive cuts without complaint and work to fairly close tolerances especially with the DRO installed.

 

[Badhippie]

They are still one of the better lathes to this day the 10EE and the Hardinge are a classic example of getting it right the first time. They are both treasures to own

 

[Badhippie]

Btw very nice work you got going on
Tom