Llewellyn Loco Works #1

[FWLR]

Hi Dazza, it's been awhile hey. You looked good on the loco in Wales. Fancy them thinking you were a fireman...

Your loco looks fantastic too and 10 hour stint, wow...

Did you bring the Welsh coal back from Wales and if you did, was there any problems at customs...

[ge_rik]

Remarkable achievement (both of them). Welcome back to the forum, we've missed you.

Rik

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Hi Dazza, it's been awhile hey. You looked good on the loco in Wales. Fancy them thinking you were a fireman...

Your loco looks fantastic too and 10 hour stint, wow...

Did you bring the Welsh coal back from Wales and if you did, was there any problems at customs...

The Potters Orchid Railway imported 40 kg of Welsh Plutonium. It was still much cheaper per kg than buying Welsh stuff from the Aussie dealer. Plod has a FEDEX freight account for his daily gold coin earning caper but to put this into context the cost was equivalent to 4 tanks of petrol into the Dunnydoor.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Remarkable achievement (both of them). Welcome back to the forum, we've missed you.

Rik

Plod says than you. Simply super busy here. Every day he has to spend an hour or two to water the gardens now the weather is warmer again.
2 months in the UK and then many weekends at the Mary Valley Rattler makes for a full dance card
Plod gave him self a fright. He has worked out he spends more than 2 days in every week each year at the FWHR and the Rattler. Still working full time etc. No time to waste watching TV or polishing the car.
The plan is to go to the FWHR each year for the next 8 years and then call is quits. Travel insurance and such like will be beyond his $ abilities.

[ge_rik]

Remarkable achievement (both of them). Welcome back to the forum, we've missed you.

Rik

Plod says than you. Simply super busy here. Every day he has to spend an hour or two to water the gardens now the weather is warmer again.
2 months in the UK and then many weekends at the Mary Valley Rattler makes for a full dance card
Plod gave him self a fright. He has worked out he spends more than 2 days in every week each year at the FWHR and the Rattler. Still working full time etc. No time to waste watching TV or polishing the car.
The plan is to go to the FWHR each year for the next 8 years and then call is quits. Travel insurance and such like will be beyond his $ abilities.

Will you progress to driver in that time?

Rik

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Remarkable achievement (both of them). Welcome back to the forum, we've missed you.

Rik

Plod says than you. Simply super busy here. Every day he has to spend an hour or two to water the gardens now the weather is warmer again.
2 months in the UK and then many weekends at the Mary Valley Rattler makes for a full dance card
Plod gave him self a fright. He has worked out he spends more than 2 days in every week each year at the FWHR and the Rattler. Still working full time etc. No time to waste watching TV or polishing the car.
The plan is to go to the FWHR each year for the next 8 years and then call is quits. Travel insurance and such like will be beyond his $ abilities.

Will you progress to driver in that time?

Rik

I do not know. I think I would have to go to Wales twice a year for a month and that is beyond my means at this time. Next step would be to become dual route qualified as they like the fireman and driver to be WHR and FR qualified. At the Mary Valley Rattler all passed crews are fireman and driver qualified. This is for the reasons of class B medicals and crew working hours.

[Keith S]

I was thinking, with respect to how difficult it is to get Welsh steam coal these days. I have read in several places of a coastal stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway where coal was unavailable so the locomotives were fired with dried fish.

I always thought this fuel source was unfeasible in our scale until I was out at an Asian grocer and saw a bag of “Dried Gouramis”. A Gourami is a small freshwater fish about the size of a tadpole. I could send you a bag of dried gouramis if you think you might like to fire your locomotive with them.

I bet you would see some “clag” then, and there would be very little clinker too.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

I was thinking, with respect to how difficult it is to get Welsh steam coal these days. I have read in several places of a coastal stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway where coal was unavailable so the locomotives were fired with dried fish.

I always thought this fuel source was unfeasible in our scale until I was out at an Asian grocer and saw a bag of “Dried Gouramis”. A Gourami is a small freshwater fish about the size of a tadpole. I could send you a bag of dried gouramis if you think you might like to fire your locomotive with them.

I bet you would see some “clag” then, and there would be very little clinker too.

I think if they were soaked in some vegetable cooking oil first for a few days then they would burn quite nicely in the fire box and the clag produced will smell like the Chapple st Chipper on a busy Friday evening .

[drewzero1]

Fascinating! I keep gouramis as pets, and I knew people eat them as well (giant gouramis raised for food can get up to 20lb/9kg), but it never would've occurred to me that they could also be fuel. They're somewhat messy fish, I can't imagine the smell.

I wonder if anchovies would burn... the neighbors might think you're making pizza!

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Captain Plod has hard wired more head lights and cab lights to the POR fleet after the success of the Llewellyn # 1's lights. Click on the photo to go to the video on flickr.


Light Test Taliesin by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Pics of the process here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/llewellyncustombicycles/

[FWLR]

That’s a great job Dazza.. like the video too, nice and clear and sharp also. Love to see more of it mate.

[Old Man Aaron]

Extremely well done, an example to all.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

Captain Plod is still alive. Simply buried for some time with a rescue mission of mother, and 2 months of mucking about at Boston Lodge and firing turns on the NG16s including one unexpected turn on the NG15. Llewellyn #1 runs well, even nicer after recently shaving off 0.15mm off each edge of the exhaust faces on the valves. BUT the axle pump, which has Plod puzzled as it did work and now refuses to work. A lot of mucking about, pull down, mods, stern words, then curses. Still to paint #1 and still to complete the 4 carriage kits. So to add to the workshop dilemmas, why not embrace the era of the Garratt and start on a new build. A coal fired 240-042 Garratt sort of inspired by the BG Ceylon Garratt. I would call it more Freelance than any thing. A lot of the work is done with the design and drawings from # 1 so a lot is going across to this build. Working up the 3D CAD drawing for the workshop 2D paper drawings. Many new things to consider, quick removal of tanks and bunkers for smoke box and tube cleaning and many other things. Anyhow Captain Plod (Dazza) will try to give updates as the processes roll along.



Plod uses Solidworks CAD. The motion and such parts are the same as #1 and well proven. The wetleg boiler steams like a witch on speed, the firebox has 6mm of added depth, slightly bigger fire door and the ash pan is able to be raked out while the loco is in steam just like #1, and the grate can slid out sideways and be dropped with ease. Return radiant super heater. (#1 had one pass in the firebox and down one tube to the header. The cylinders will have the V2 remade servo operated drains that are well proven and work a real treat on #1, Water and pump for the front bogie. I cannot get a Slowmo in at this time but I may make my own version for the hind bogie. It would be best if both bogies had a version of Slomo. Oh and no one can convince me that are not worth having. We and friends have them and they make for lovely smooth running.



Bogie assembly is underway. The motion parts are all from #1 which has my redesign motion and works very nicely. Lots to do here. Parts are hidden in this pic as one ponders the how to etc.






The bores have been reduced from 12.7mm to 9.5mm but the total swept volume is up 12% with the four cylinders but the boiler will cope with this no problem when using Welsh Plutonium.

[FWLR]

Hi Dazza,

It’s been some time since we have seen you and your design. It looks fabulous I always love hearing how you overcome little differences in your style of work. I for one am waiting to see more of your brilliant work.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

All afternoon was constant thunderstorms and 5cm hail in some places. Lots of destruction in many places in SE Qld and a friend had all their home windows smashed in. Plod and MAM's place of habitation is fine, just rain and puff. No hail.
There was no PC computer design work underway while lightning and rain was about for many hours so Plod took the opportunity to saw off the wheel blanks out by hand from some 45mm and 35mm free machining steel.
"No need for Gym fees" says Plod.
Shouts of "Pain is weakness leaving the body" rang out as lightening flashed over head.
Roughing out the blanks was started on the Blue Lathe in the bike frame workshop.
Plod made a mistake on the Pony wheel blanks, far too much material to be hacked off. But that is normal for the Plod. Over do it and get things wrong.

IMG_7491 (Large) by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

IMG_7493 (Large) by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

IMG_7492 (Large) by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

20251101_204021 by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

20251101_204027 by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

A batch of Roundhouse hoses arrived. Plod reckons he can make these work for the Garratt




Wheel blanks knocked up.
Pony wheels meet the the Myford for tread profiling.

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[Palmerston]

A batch of Roundhouse hoses arrived. Plod reckons he can make these work for the Garratt

These PTFE hoses are also used in professional hot glue systems, such as gluing cardboard boxes. That's why I have these hoses, but of course without fittings. My Accucraft NGG16 (first batch) still needs replacing the inferior silicone hoses as they melted during the 3rd run back in 2007! Of course they have to be made to length, no idea how to make the fittings. Have lathe etc.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

A batch of Roundhouse hoses arrived. Plod reckons he can make these work for the Garratt

These PTFE hoses are also used in professional hot glue systems, such as gluing cardboard boxes. That's why I have these hoses, but of course without fittings. My Accucraft NGG16 (first batch) still needs replacing the inferior silicone hoses as they melted during the 3rd run back in 2007! Of course they have to be made to length, no idea how to make the fittings. Have lathe etc.

Very interesting and enlightening. Thankyou.

[Hydrostatic Dazza]

The first completed parts of the Garratt Build.
Pony Track Wheels.
Driver wheels next.
Plod has had a communication with Brian Wilson and he has made some gorgeous Ceylon Garratts and he has a servo operated exhaust drain. Now Plod's Mk1 cranium computer has rusty gears gearing grinding contemplating this. He scribbled a Corliss type valve on a piece paper yesterday. Oh dear, what has this set off ?

Pony Truck Wheels by Darrell McCulloch, on Flickr