Manufacturing the right and left internal ACME threads on the
two carriages that operate the top lighting fin.
Dick
Humphreys from Saginaw, Michigan drove the 2-1/2 hours down to Zeeland to
donate the AMCO bronze for the two nuts that must be machined for the top
lighting fin drive system. We thank Dick for this expensive donation.
There is an interesting story to this donation. He went to a scrap dealer
to purchase the bronze. At the time neither he nor I had no idea as to
what type of bronze to purchase. The dealer ask him if 330 would be ok,
and Dick not knowing one type from another said ok. The dealer then
discovered he did not have any 330 in the size we needed. Next the dealer
asked him if 660 would be ok and again Dick said fine. Again the dealer
did not have the right size. In the meantime I had found that we should be
using AMCO bronze. The dealer did have AMCO bronze in the right size and
sold it to Dick at the same price as the 330 material, a real bargain.
Thanks Dick for the donation.
Phil
DeVries
took the AMCO bronze home. He will be developing a computer program,
designing and building a tool to cut this material on his CNC milling
machine in order to make the right and left internal ACME threads on the
two carriages that operate the top lighting fin. The threads were badly
stripped and this will save us quite a bit of money.
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