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Fan snout bolt face on main housing

Main body sand blasted.

Ok time for another update. This time will be the oil pump outer housing and check valves in the bottom. One of my oil pump housing work great the other was completely clogged and once a got it free the check valve was degenerated. The outer housing were pressed in so to get them out i tied the main...

Gears coated with DFL coating (Gray) and non friction surfaces coated with oil wicking coating(Silver). Jake, For one of the uninformed, would you mind giving a short tutorial on the two coatings? Appears to be something for which I might have an interest. Thanks in advance, Jim Hello Jim, I just r...

Hope everything coming along well on your big project. Here is a pic of the lettering on my tail bone. Tailbone with casting is20200123_122729.jpg 21' long tall side of vane sheet is 8'5". The lettering would be located near the end of the tail on top of the angle. Ill look and measure my tail...

JLM wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:40 pm That mill is going to be better than when it was when brand new. Are you planning on pumping water with the mill?

Yes sir. I already have the well completed just need to finish the head.

New 4140 annealed pitman arm pins

Thanks y’all!

The tower is set. Now I just need to tighten the tension rods and it’s complete. The final slab specs are 13 ft deep 18” piers on each corner with a 30”x18” beam tying the corners together. I used 10 yards of concrete or 40,500 pounds of concrete.

I found these yesterday. Well the copper one I knew about for a while but I acquired both yesterday. The copper one has a working pump rob that i think is pretty cool. Copper one is around a 12” tall and the aermotor is around 16” tall.