Cylinder basics

Turned down a shoulder at each end of the cylinder to accomodate the flanges and made the latter from a piece of 35mm dia brass about 9mm thick. As each flange needed to be 3mm thick and I couldn't fit the part in my 'inside' chuck jaws to part it off I had to saw it carefully, mount it in the outside jaws and face down to 3mm. For a change everything went to plan!

Here's the two flanges in place ready for soldering but before that I need to figure out exactly what type of valve to use and where the steam passages need to go. CAD time again.