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by bambuko
Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:34 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
Replies: 917
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Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1

No Graeme, this is new "improved" code :evil: One way you can possibly get away with it Dazza, is to argue "grandfather rights" to an existing (previously approved) design. After all, they are not going to ground all existing Erics in Australia??? So providing you have started bu...
by bambuko
Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:02 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
Replies: 917
Views: 350470

Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1

Just to take an arbitrary example from your list of discovered errors: page 37 in the book showing 82mm - accepted as an error and listed as such in the erratum I have mentioned. In the tradition of model engineering publications it will never get corrected and will carry on catching unwary :D I hav...
by bambuko
Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:13 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
Replies: 917
Views: 350470

Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1

It is a good book to inspire, however there are little traps if you are not careful, little errors and drawing errors and dimension errors. It's a better book than many (if not most) model engineering books (and I have a lot of them). I spotted few omissions as well already, but nothing serious. Th...
by bambuko
Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:13 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
Replies: 917
Views: 350470

Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1

Thank you for an excellent build thread Darrell.
I will follow it with great interest (just got Brian's book as well :D )