Talk:Charlie Taylor

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[edit] DID MR TAYLOR MACHINE THE ENGINE BLOCK

After Charlie Taylor's death, about 20 years, the rumor got around that Charlie didn't machine the engine block for the 03 wright flyer. The reason given for this thought was that the Wright Brothers only had three machines in there shop. A drill press, a band saw and a lathe. The lathe was a 14" putnum lathe. The way that they machined an engine block was to put it on the lathe carriage and bolt it down. They would put a bar between the head stock dead center and the tail stock dead center and turn the shaft with a dog or a clamp that would fit onto the chuck plate. The problem was the dead center was only 7" high and the engine block was about 8" high. This would leave the bar about 1" low. These dementions are aproxamate. In about 1964 The author Howard Dufore wrote a book about Mr Taylor. In doing his research he went to the bicycle shop in Dearborn and found a old nail container filled with scrap steel. Mr Dufore is a skilled machinist. He tipped over the container and saw the riser blocks for the lathe. These riser block have two v groves and two v ridges that stick up. They are a perfect match for the ways of the lathe. When He saw them he knew instantly what they were. He had a replaca of the engine block and set the head stock, the part were the chuck fits and rotates form, and the tail stock raised up on the riser blocks. With these modifications of the lathe the bar fit into the engine block and they could do what is called "line boring." I know this to be true because the curator at that time didn't let Mr Dufore leave the engine block on the lathe. I came along in 2002 along with Mr Jerry Brown and we set up the engine block on the lathe. We had to use the riser blocks to raise the head stock and tail stock high enough to line bore the block. Mr Dufore supplied the bar and gave us valuable advise on how to set it up. If you want to see one of the greatest museum see the Ford Museum in Dearborn Mi. The Wright shop is in a section called Greenfeild Village.