New guy in Portland, Oregon

[baloubear]

Hello Group-

I've got an Emco Maximat V10 with milling attachment and have made a few odds and ends around the shop. Mostly things like Tnuts, ER-32 Collet Chuck, Faceplates and chuck adapters for my wood working machines (Horizontal mortiser and wood lathe). No engines yet, but that looks like a fun way to improve my skills.

When I bought the lathe over a year ago, it had a stripped phelonic gear in it's headstock, so the first job was to tear it down and have a new gear made at a local shop. They used a material called Nyloil, which has held up well up to this point, 100+ hours of this newbie making mistakes and a few usable parts .

Thanks,

-Brian

 

[starnovice]

Hi Brian,
I am also in the PDX area. Are you a member of the Portland Model Engineering Club? Would you like the contact info? Did you ever make it to the GEARS show?

Welcome aboard!

Pat

 

[baloubear]

Hello Pat,

I'm not a member of the club yet. I went to a meeting years ago, before purchasing the lathe - joining up makes more sense now than it did then . I haven't made it to the gears show since there always seems to be a conflict. I do manage to make it to the Brooks Steamup almost every year. So little time...

-Brian

 

[Dave Sohlstrom]

Brian

In North of PDX in Ariel WA. I try to make it to the Portland Model Engineering club meeting. I've not been to the Steam up in several years.

I'm presently woking on a steam engine for a RC model stern wheeler being built here is WA.

Also doing RC scale model Zdrives for model tug boats.

Dave

 

[baloubear]

Hi Dave,

I'd never heard of Zdrives. A Google search shows many interesting links. Apparantly, there is quite a bit of engineering that goes into the full size incarnation. Hope to see you at a PME meeting, I'll be the tall new guy .

-Brian

 

[Dave Sohlstrom]

Brian

You can see the thread for the model stern wheeler here. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1497645

You can see the tread for the model Zdrives here. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1485490

As you have learned from the links you found Zdrives are used in both Tractor Tugs and ASD (azimuth stern drive) Tugs. Both types of tugs are modeled by the RC model boat folks and they keep asking for bigger drives. The units we are designing will fit nicely in a 1/24 scale tug. We will have all metal gears.10 ball bearings in the units with double seals any where water can get in.

Dave