Quick update, I am making a water tube boiler for my Southern 0-4-4 single cylinder. This has been an interesting project, a full wet backhead in the style of...
Hi All, I have just joined the 2.5" Association and this forum after coming back to model engineering after a long, long break. My late father started building...
As material on this forum seems to be a bit thin on the ground I'll give some details of my attempts to finish the Paul Wiese/Don Collin Flying Scotsman...
During my usual scouring of Ebay for interesting/useful items I came across this very nice GWR 28XX which may interest someone. If I had the money I'd buy it...
Hi all, It's great to read about John Baguley's projects and the progress he's making there, so I thought I'd give an update on my mystery Pacific. ...
Hi Aaron, You may already know but LBSC did a USA version of "Fayette" called "Judy" which had a larger taper boiler and 1 inch bore x 1 1/4 inch stroke...
Looking through the archive photos for the group, I saw those for LBSC's 1695 saddle tank. Has anyone any experience making this design ? I like the look of...
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There was some discussion last year re. Cad projects that people were working on. I use Autocad 2000 all the time now for project design and drawing. Now I've...
In reply to simon, my 1695 is a very long term project. I bought it as a rusty chassis, of dubious quality, the original had a major flaw, the outside frames...
I guess the frames will be much stiffened once the running boards are in place. Looking at the drawing for the valve gear, it all looks tightly packed in. Is...
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My chassis had 3/32 frames of really soft steel. They would distort in 2 planes and where the horns are is major weakness. I thought about the running boards...
As for the rigidity of the frames, why not use 3/32" thick hardened steel? If you are only going to have it laser cut anyway, it may prove to be stronger than...
Have just bought a set of castings and original drawings for this single cylinder, spirit fired loco by L.B.S.C. Thought it might be a quick, fun project. Has...
Hi, On the following association page: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~n25ga/tocw.htm there is advertised wheel castings by a Mr Alan Headech. There is an ...
Yes, Alan Headech is very much alive and well - and was at the recent Gauge 3 AGM with a very large selection of fine quality wheel castings suitable for...
Have made a start on rebuilding the chassis. As some modifications had to be made to change from two cylinders to three, the opportunity was taken to make new...
John, You might consider machining off a significant slice from the port face of the castings and replacing this with a similar thickness of brass sheet. This...
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Hi Simon, Thanks for your comment. I'll probably give it a try. That actually was my first thought as I have some 2" wide by 1/8" thick brass strip which I...
Slide valves wear in, but don't generaly wear out. I don't think wear should be much of a problem. Simon. ... From: John Baguley <baggo@...> To:...
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Hi John Isnt the middle cylinder on Scotsman at a slight angle? Normally A3's have the outer cranks at 90 and the middle at 135 degrees to each other. Andy ......
Hi Andy, The 2 to 1 conjugated lever drive to the centre valve causes the valve motion to be 120 degrees out of phase to the two outer valves. Hence the crank...
John asked if anybody is making one of these, Well yes I am actively hoping to finish one soon. I am having a little trouble with the 'saddle', it seems to be...
When posting photos or files, please submit a message so that everybody knows where to look to find them. (Simon, is it possible to change a setting to...
Hi David, I'll get on the drawings as soon as I can. The originals I have are by Donaldson & Piper of Ashford, Kent and have more sticky tape than paper! They...
I just quickly scanned my photostat of Victoria. I uploaded this in its raw state as a .tif file, so some kind soul may hopefully tidy it up and save it in a...
David, I've downloaded the files and uploaded them back into the folder. I've tried to convert them to a jpeg to take up less room but my photo package doesn't...
John I hope you can see enough info for the redrawing on to CAD. Ideally these should be scanned and converted into pdf format, so they are more compact. At...
Found another program and converted the relevant pages to jpegs so they will download a lot quicker for those with dialup. Have reduced the page size a bit but...
