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On Youtube anybody can watch your videos. On 24Trains.tv only those who are prepared to pay £100 a year subscription would have an access. Choice is yours :mrgreen: BTW-I have no illusions about Youtube being actually "free" but this is a subject for another discussion... I am sure 24Train...

very nice
thank you for sharing

Thank you for the clarification Nomis :thumbright: looks like I wasn't far wrong when suggesting you might have used 7400 :thumbup: ...CombiColor Metal 7300/7400 coating is primer and topcoat in one, based on a urethane modified alkyd... Good range of colours indeed! BTW I have just discovered that ...

I know that "Rustoleum" seem to be in common use on interweb and everybody seems to know what you are talking about :D ... but looking at all the Rustoleum products available (see: http://www.rustoleumdirect.co.uk/products.php) I remain confused :scratch: Can you, please clarify which one ...

...I can document that job, with a view to encouraging others... That's the spirit :thumbup: Threads like this are welcome and hopefully encourage others indeed. BTW - I am surprised that you have used "styrene scraps" - I hope you are not going to melt them :mrgreen: Your subtle weatheri...

My take on a quartering fixture. V block in the centre (to locate the axle) and two stops, vertical on the left and horizontal on the right: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49977401042_a08caa74c4_o.jpg With the axle secured in place (one wheel is missing, but that's because it is just a test pie...

It sounds as though the main attraction for the rats are your neighbour's ferrets... that would be new to me... it's a bit like mice being attracted to cats :scratch: ...this could be a public health issue? ... how do you prove that it is ferrets that caused rats infestation... :mrgreen: ...Perhaps...

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:33 pmBang on!

thank you
now I have to repeat this performance six times for the cranks proper (this one is just a test), but before I do it, I want to make (and test) quartering fixture.
More to follow...

Drilling peg hole freehand on my drill wasn't entirely satisfactory :mrgreen: so I have decided to do it proper way :thumbup: on my milling machine, secured to holding fixture. Here I am using a wiggler to position the hole exactly half way between (it's 0.4mm in one half and 0.4mm in the other): ht...

dewintondave wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 9:00 am ... The four bolts hold on the separate back plates, I didn't have thick enough stock for the usual milled flange arrangement

understand,thank you (although I'd have probably silver soldered it to get the right thickness?).
Having said so, there is no right or wrong way of doing it

Looking very nice, indeed
What attracted my attention though (and is puzzling me) are four bolts on the axleboxes (inside).
What are these about?

Test cranks continue :D https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49944237911_086543a332_b.jpg Crankpins loctited in. I am trying pinning/pegging the crankpins using pivot steel (0.8mm dia) in a fashion used in larger models rather than across as suggested in Brain Wilson's book. Hex bolt is there to secu...

Continuing with cranks, I have made another fixture to allow me to machine different thickness of crank and balance weight, as per: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49878420656_efb86f2820_b.jpg Here, I am setting up the fixture (with crank blank) on rotary table: https://live.staticflickr.com/655...

Thank you
enjoyed this little "kicks and giggles"

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 9:11 pm Tender work at the Llewellyn Loco Works.

What is this?

BTW you are indeed correct when you say it is narrow gauge loco.
Prototype runs here:
https://www.ffestiniograilway.org.uk/ga ... ountaineer

Mountainer was one of the 100 locos ordered by British War Department for service in France during 1st World War, to be built in USA by ALCO. I see no reason why a competent model engineer couldn't customise the appearance and details to suit his ideas, but using sound basic design available in ME a...

Like I've said in my comment on Youtube it is probably based on Don Young's Mountaineer.
Series of articles started in Model Engineer Vol 139, No 3467, June 1973
Here is the GA from the first part:

dewintondave wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 9:15 am ...Hmmm, I wonder which to go for? ...

I like flat one better, but both are equally plausible - you can find prototype for each

p.s. pictures are better as well

Huh, I never knew about any real differences between the two... They are not really significant in a grand scheme of things :mrgreen: but to OCD afflicted, anally retentive old git like me, they are interesting... ...You seem to know more about Airdmillan & Bundy than I do! :lol: I enjoy resear...