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JMORG wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:26 am The Gloucester works photo below is from the FR ibase archive.
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Love Gloucester's makeshift 1'11" track!

Tim

Hanging out for the next installment
Tim

Wow, that’s a lot of wheels!
Tim

The driver is a slightly modified Schliech 'Pioneer Settler' figure, now out of production. He came holding a stetson, which I carved off, leaving a remnant to suggest he has a rag in his hand. Regards, Graeme Just as well you didn't model the driver based on the prototype in the head picture. What...

philipy wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 10:42 am Edited to add: There is a beastie called a Dingham Coupler. I admit that I've no experience of it but it might help either directly or simply to give you ideas.
http://www.dingham.co.uk/7mm_coupler.htm

But ou will need buffers to propel!
Tim

FWLR wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 7:01 am I still can’t get my head around 7/8th’s, I know someone showed me a photo for comparison, but does it only run on 45mm track or can it run on 32mm has well.

I think it was Derek (bazzer42) or maybe not.

Simple,
On 32mm for 18” prototypes
On 45 mm for 24” prototypes

Tim

I had a friend who mounted the roof in New Dehli. Caused an almighty disturbance! they refused to allow the train to depart until he got down.
Apparently it is not acceptable for Europeans.
Tim

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:15 am He was interested in seeing foreign currency.
Rik

Two boys approached me in New Delhi, said they were coin collectors - did I have any to add to their collection! (Silver tongues also feigned surprise that my wife was not my daughter)

Tim

Cream - any album, they were all the same! Can’t beat a ginger baker 15 minute drum solo. Saw a doco on Eric Clapton at the flicks last month, he said all the Cream era was drug induced crap, never mind I liked it. Doors - Greatest Hits. At least all of The Late Great Jim Morrison’s excesses were ed...

Hi Tony,
I'm surprised you didn't embark on a project to lay a moving cable between the tracks!
Tim

Sorry to be late to the conversation, I don’t often read “off topic”. Paul Nilijen who posts on this forum as Pline, accompanied our small group of 3 to Darjeeling and other points several years ago. He lives in Howrah, which is next door to Kolkata ( or as the Indians call it Calcutta!) If you are ...

I was hoping to find a hole size which would not expel much steam but at the same time pressure the water that has condensed at the bottom of the tube. Maybe the water tension would prevent the water expelling through such a small hole?

Tim

I attach a drawing of a theoretical solution to Wet Exhaust. I have done no experimentation on my theory, and have no qualification whatsoever in the field. Per the drawing, the cylinder exhausts are joined at the lowest point by a T junction. the bottom of the leg of the T is blind but for a very s...

My current build is called “Queen of the May” after my mother ( at least that’s what her brothers called her ) . The money for the DJB boiler came from her inheritance.
I once crewed on a sailboat called “ Follow Me “ have always fancied that as appropriate for a loco.
Tim

Ditto

Tim

Hi Dave,
I love it when someone updates a classic!
How does revering work on your loco, and how did it work on the original design?
So you have two burners, does it produce an excess of steam?
Thanks Tim

Hi Dazza, Andrew Allison’s boiler design for Jack, which has a boiler diameter of 50.8 mm, shows the following dimensions on plate thickness- Tubeplates & backhead. 3mm Outer firebox wrapper. 3mm ( it is a wet leg design) Inner firebox wrapper. 2mm The drawing is dated 27/10/2015 and published i...

I use Deltacad. $A 40. I find it very intuitive and you don't have to negotiate your way around a thousand 'features' that you never need that just confuse the infrequent user.
Tim

Here's something that somtime's works for me. go to a $2.00 (1 pound?) shop and buy a cheep metal ruler. Pick a spacing which will suit your purposes (every 'x' mm). Clamp a fence on your pillar drill that is spaced the distance from the bit to the inside of the angle (or edge if piece to be drilled...

Have found someone online who will laser-cut the cast iron filigree panel above the door - as with all my constructions, the panel is 'inspired' by the original If you are adventurous & can live with the thickness, this may be a solution. Results look pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...