[SEL] The Stickney Fuel Pump Project & GEM

[skip landis]

arnie, if you haven't yet had these cast, i sure would buy one. skip in nw montana

Arnie Fero wrote:

> 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
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