From a 1958 Popular Mechanics Shop Tips magazine. If you already had enough ashtrays made from pistons you could use cut down pistons to make a tailstock or a set of indexing centers for your horizontal mill. I admire the ingenuity and amount of work done here, but have to wonder just how many of these things were made by readers.
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It's cute as the devil, but looks like you're expected to bore the wristpin for, like, a #2 Morse taper? Uh huh, sure. --rats
I'm not so sure; when you see the "Live Steam" wonders created by amateurs, this would likely be small potatoes for many of them.
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No; make a new piece, because a gudgeon/piston/wrist* pin would be too hard to machine. D.
*delete as regionally applicable...
Probably as many of these were made as dirigibles that magazines like PM predicted for the near future.
Just wait! They're almost here!
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