One of the things made up today was a little jig for setting up hornblocks in the mill. This allows the hornblock to be set up on the flange for milling the face against the frame. The horns are a little distorted so one of the adjusting screws was tweaked for "soft foot". It's nice to see the top of the hornblock with a uniform thickness bolting flange!
Soft foot - A strange name from my real work days aligning turbines and motors at the power stations. First job was to put some feeler gauges under the feet of the machine to work out the first shims as usually one of the feet had a gap under it! Very common to have soft foot especially on large machinery. Trying to align a machine when soft foot was not shimmed first was a complete waste of time, as tightening down the bolts produced all sorts of readings on the dial indicators, not to mention the twist and distortion of the machinery!
Happy steaming!
Nigel
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