{"id":284,"date":"2012-03-09T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.wordpress.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-03-09T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:43:44","slug":"20-buttoning-up-the-cylinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/20-buttoning-up-the-cylinders\/","title":{"rendered":"20: buttoning up the cylinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the steam pistons in place in both cylinders, it&#8217;s time to button them up, making the saddle\/cylinder assembly complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-34-51-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-34-51-pm.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" title=\"3-9-2012 4.34.51 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: both cylinders are closed off with front and rear caps. Note also the driver springs and equalizer system are now in place.<\/p>\n<p>Below shows the right piston (blue) inside the cylinder. The rear cylinder cap is also shown with gland packing detail. The 2 blocks welded on the cap will be used to attach the crosshead guides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-36-02-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-36-02-pm.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" title=\"3-9-2012 4.36.02 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extra: this view shows the spring and equalizer assembly. Fairly straightforward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-46-01-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whiskeybeforebreakfast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/3-9-2012-4-46-01-pm.png?w=600\" alt=\"\" title=\"3-9-2012 4.46.01 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the steam pistons in place in both cylinders, it&#8217;s time to button them up, making the saddle\/cylinder assembly complete. Above: both cylinders are closed off with front and rear caps. Note also the driver springs and equalizer system are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/20-buttoning-up-the-cylinders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ck-holliday-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckhollidayplans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}