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.
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
ReplyDeleteNo; make a new piece, because a gudgeon/piston/wrist* pin would be too hard to machine. D.
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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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Probably as many of these were made as dirigibles that magazines like PM predicted for the near future.
ReplyDeleteJust wait! They're almost here!
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