[SEL] The Stickney Fuel Pump Project & GEM

[Arnie Fero]

Hi Curt,

Ya know, this Stickney fuel pump project (including the yet-to-come
casting and machining and installing and first running) will make one
helluva interesting series of articles for GEM.  I hope you are planning
on such a series of pieces?

See ya,  Arnie

PS - You also need to include a bit about WHY you've taken the project on
when you have a lovely gravity fed engine.  8-)))

Arnie Fero
Pittsburgh, PA
fero_ah at city-net.com

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Curt wrote:

> This page is on the making of a Stickney fuel pump. This was by far the
> most difficult of the patterns and making it spanned 4 months. Initially
> I was planning on just making it solid with no core for the inside, to
> avoid all the work of making a core box. Little did I know I would end
> of having to make a core box to shape a portion of the outside! It took
> me a long time to understand why the corebox was needed and even longer
> to understand the negative draft problem that existed in the core box.
> Thanks to the patience of pattern maker/friend Al Owens I finally saw
> the light.
> Hope you enjoy.
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/images/PatternMaking/FuelPump/Thumbnails.html