A forum for all things technical regarding Dobles or steam cars in general.
Progressing with the auxiliary unit, the condensate pistons and bodies are either damaged ( cracked lugs or badly rusted) some the wrong part for the crank case body, mismatched holes and sealer to fill... decision made to re cast in chrome
Chris informed me that we needed a pump for the Oil Box on F-30.. Upon eyeballing the original drawings, we spotted the manufacturer of the pump spec'd and we found one for sale on Ebay! Crazy find. Obviously we bought a few of them and the
Once I stripped down the first Auxiliary unit it became apparent that almost every moving part inside was worn out , from small gear sets right through to the crank shafts and con rods. this post show the process involved in re making the w
Patterns and casting are being made and arriving on a daily basis now and we are steadily working through producing all the parts required to rebuild the existing units and also to recreate a new unit for Doble F30, as you can see our parts
The pattern makers and foundries are working hard to progress our parts, some times a bit frustrating when we need to prove a pattern before we make the batch, all sorts here , structural rings for the generator cases, valves, auxiliary par
I have been very busy in the workshop continuing machining the worn out parts in the auxiliary unit . I posted the first 3d adaptive milling operation a couple of weeks ago and now I am following up with the second operation with the billet
the problem with old parts that have sat with water in...... these conrods have the outer race of the roller bearing machined and ground into the rod its self, regrinding is not an option as the relative circumferences and roller diameter n
Upon stripping the Fan Turbines I found several problems , from worn bearings , rusted pipes, damaged turbine sections and even labyrinth rings completely missing from one unit ! the close up of the centre of one of the main turbine section
We discovered that the expansion links were worn in one engine and broken in F30 so decided that all the engines were probably in a similar condition and set about making these parts. these parts are now ready for heat treatment and then gr
When you start a project and just assume an electric motor is not going to be a problem......... then it becomes apparent they do not exist. after calling 3 companies that advertise bespoke motor manufacture, to discover that they only modi
