Work in progress...

[finescalerr]

Yes, and I now can appreciate the exquisite beauty of the renderings. -- Russ

[W.P. Rayner]

A little more work on this project... I finally finished the fuel level indicators which, for such a small part, were actually fairly difficult to draw. I had drawn them originally in Cobalt, but there was some sort of technical/coding issue with that file and neither Inventor nor Solidworks would interpret the original drawing. So I had to draw them from scratch again. At any rate, here are a couple of renderings showing the fuel level indicators in place.





Paul

[artizen]

If this gets built in gold and brushed titanium as depicted in the renderings, it would be a collectible! Whatever, it is a wonderful work of art and I hope to see this and all your other renderings come to life as finished items ... please!

[W.P. Rayner]

Thanks Ian... I think I'll pass on the gold and titanium though it could be the latest decor accessory from Tiffany... I'll reserve those materials just for these renderings. Epoxy resin, brass tubing and styrene will be a touch more affordable.

Here are the latest two renderings with today's progress. Added the return tube within the fuel reservoir which completes the components within the reservoir and modelled the lower portion of the top to the fuel reservoir. Light fixture and Mobil globe will complete the top.





Paul

[finescalerr]

Satisfactory. -- Russ

[pwranta193]

Paul,

I'm completely impressed with your work on this... your work on the actual design is cool enough, but your bump up on the finish and presentation is always impressive.  The rare metals finished version looks less like Tiffany's to me than the fuel pump outside of the dining hall at Valhalla (see recent Thor movie). As I've said before, I wish I'd stumbled into the world of CAD a decade or so back, as it feels like one of those things that I'd always be behind the power curve in trying to learn 

An operational question... this being another of those functional items that I had little or no knowledge of before wandering into Russ' canyons of the obscure and arcane - what is the reason behind having multiple drain (outflow?) tubes within the tank?

Again - great finish...

Pablo sends

[Chuck Doan]

It allowed the attendant to select the exact amount of gas to dispense instead of using the subjective gallon markers.

[W.P. Rayner]

Thanks Paul. Chuck is absolutely correct. The capacity of this pump was ten gallons. Fuel could be dispensed in accurate or "Correct Measure" one-gallon increments from one to ten depending on the needs of the purchaser. Each tube represents one of the gallon increments, that's why there are so many tubes. Once the reservoir was filled, it was drained down to the desired level. I believe two of the reasons why the pumps were so short-lived were the relative complexity of the mechanism and their limited capacity.

Paul

[pwranta193]

Interesting... odd, but I guess with nascent tech, you'll have the ones that don't survive   I can see the designer thinking "who is ever going to need more than ten gallons".

Thank you gents for the explanation.