Custom Ornamental Rose Engine Lathe

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Rose Engine

-Fabrication notes 7/2/08

Prototype:

- Prototype Rose Engine
- Rubber & rosette cam

Construction:

- Turning the index wheel
- Drilling the index wheel
- Cutting a Rosette cam
- Fabricating T-nut
- Spindle stop
- Rubber assembly
- Spindle & bearings
- Pivot axle & bearings
- Spindle & frame
- Index wheel installed
- Rocking stop arm
- Rose Engine ready to test
- Chuck holding work
- Turn aluminum on wood lathe
- Hand crank and handle
- Threading follower
- Copy a cam
- Drilling a cam
- Finished rosette cam
- Router assembly
- Boring bar cutters
- Chuck adjusting Spider
- Overhead drive 4/15/08
- Cutting frame 4/15/08
- Rose Engine 2/8/08
- Rose Engine latest 2/17/08
- Test results - Gallery

Notes:

- Description of a Rose Engine
by Jon Magill

Other Stuff:

- Wood Lathe works
- Shop jigs homemade
- Downloads & plans

E-mail:
info1@OrnamentalRoseEngine.com

Custom Rose Engine & Ornamental Lathe
Photograph of the custom Rose Engine.

The Rose Engine is mounted on my extra Jet cast iron lathe bed. So far, it does an excellent job.

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E-mail: info1@OrnamentalRoseEngine.com