Monthly Archives: October 2007
Time Travel
This past weekend I was organizing some older pictures on my computer and I came across a project that I did a few years back. This project was making a replacement flywheel for a model steam engine. The steam engine … Continue reading
Pumpkin Carving
Last night after my small group studies, we all carved pumpkins. My camera only had enough power to snap a few pictures of my work, but everyone else’s pumpkin turned out pretty good as well. I was trying to make … Continue reading
The wasp stops here
I haven’t been to the shop in quite a while, but I managed to get over there today around 3pm. My grandpa had been working on the diesel compressor that we use for high-volume tasks such as sand blasting or … Continue reading
Dynamically static
My boss finally got his high velocity duct test contraption set up yesterday and showed us some interesting results. It’s the first time I’ve seen an example of static vs dynamic pressure in a working fluid. (even UF’s Fluid dynamics … Continue reading
John Deere 3hp, Episode 4: Broken parts
During disassembly, there were several parts that were broken because of poor handling on my part. Several more parts were already broken, and several parts missing completely. Except for the Flywheel, which I will elaborate on further in another article, … Continue reading