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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...
Hi David, Looks like you found the setting! Copyright could be 'iffy' with posting copies of drawings, mags etc, but I did find the full set of building...
Looking at a few of the scans, it should be better if you scanned as .gif files, and possibly pressed the magazine pages closer to the glass, there is a bit of...
Hi Simon, Have deleted the large .tif files from the folder and just left the jpegs. The original scans were not very clear at the edges. David probably...
Hi The reason for the .tif files was that somebody may have OCR and saved as a word file. I could have saved then in .gif straight away myself! Never mind I...
Have uploaded a couple of Autocad 2000 drawings to show progress so far. One shows the side view of the finished loco and the other the cylinder components....
£50 for a scanner that does negs is a very good price, must dash off to buy one. Add this to Lidl's £50 dual layer dvd burner, the cheapo supermarkets are...
My understanding is that the attitude to copyright of designs featured in ME etc changed about 25 -30 years ago. Up until that time, published designs were...
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John That was quick work, an excellent job! In the plans book it is described as 'Oil fired' and this is supposed to be on sheet 1, but my sheet 1 has just a...
Hi David, My plans are the same and show only the meths burner. I'm not sure what used to be meant by 'oil burners' back in the old days. The other drawings...
