It almost once could have been used for mainline steam. See
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/resu ... e=10419778
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- Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:13 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Wooden Rails
- Replies: 9
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- Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:17 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Gluing Peco track parts
- Replies: 11
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I use liquid solvent I think the bottle label says Plasweld or something like that. It's too cold this evening to go out to the shed to check the bottle. Just to make sure chairs will not come loose in the future, I press a small brass pin with a flat head into each fixing hole using a hot soldering...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 1:32 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Loco build following of Wild RoseIII
- Replies: 4
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- Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:17 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Construction of the MQR
- Replies: 111
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Your railway looks great and it is nice to see the other Keith Massey Quarry Hunslet has a good home. These locos can certainly pull. The only time I have stalled mine (Linda - in blue) is when I have forgotten to take the brake off. It takes four people up a 1 in 50 readily. I don't have the rollin...
- Wed May 13, 2015 10:31 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Slip eccentric design considerations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2367
Hi The offset is related to valve lap. If the valve just spans the ports (that is there is no lap), then there would be no offset. The slip eccentric is arranged to be exactly 90 degrees ahead of the piston. This will work in our size engines but does not make the best use of steam. No problem if yo...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started
- Replies: 201
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Well yes , in terms of size you are right. Gauge 1 and G scale use the same track gauge of 45mm. If you want to buy British standard gauge trains to run on 45mm gauge track then you need to be looking at Gauge 1 as was said earlier. British Gauge 1 models are usually built to 1:32 scale (that is 3/8...
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:51 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Toddler powered
- Replies: 19
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./myff/1841709/DSCN0108.JPG The body is held together by screws. Three are obvious. One more is hidden behind the GR plate on the right hand side. Two hold the smokebox and are hidden behind the curved Greendale Rocket plate. Taking the smokebox off reveals yet another two screws. At this stage you...
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:36 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Toddler powered
- Replies: 19
- Views: 25266
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Toddler powered
- Replies: 19
- Views: 25266
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:51 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: December Penkridge Meeting - Santa Specials
- Replies: 1
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December Penkridge Meeting - Santa Specials
The December meeting of the Staffordshire/Black Country group was last Sunday. The theme was Santa Specials so passenger rather than freight trains were the order of he day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Nr6kl_wxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Nr6kl_wxM
- Wed May 14, 2014 1:04 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Diesel electric wiring diagram/plans
- Replies: 3
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- Thu May 01, 2014 6:14 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: 3.5 inch gauge
- Replies: 36
- Views: 29304
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Single occilating cylinder loco?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 19088
The Sentinel was based on a very small drawing I found in a book on Sentinel Locomotives in the local public library. I used a single acting oscillator geared down 4 to 1 with a heavy flywheel. The flywheel is on a cross shaft which in turn is linked to the axles with chain. It uses Meccano sprocket...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Single occilating cylinder loco?
- Replies: 38
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Here are a few photos of the DeWinton. It is decidedly overscale for 16mm scale but would look ok in 7/8ths. The cylinder was originally single acting and later converted to double acting. It wore out it's first set of gears, I don't know where they came from but the larger gear had 'Primus' embosse...
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:11 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Single occilating cylinder loco?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 19088
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Single occilating cylinder loco?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 19088
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 2:43 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Single occilating cylinder loco?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 19088
Best of luck with Louisa. If you can find any reference to John Foulds's loco they might help with your project - he built quarry Hunslets in 16mm scale driven by a single cylinder oscillator. Here are a couple more videos of single cylinder oscillator locos: A vertical boilered DeWinton like loco, ...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:22 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Wild Rose build
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22750
Yes, that is the same magazine that Keith Bucklitch's articles were in.
I have not finished my own build to the revised drawings yet but I know some have been completed and are running. Yoshaiki Hosoi has built three locos to the Wild Rose III design see:-
http://45livesteam.sakura.ne.jp/
I have not finished my own build to the revised drawings yet but I know some have been completed and are running. Yoshaiki Hosoi has built three locos to the Wild Rose III design see:-
http://45livesteam.sakura.ne.jp/
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:36 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Birches Barn Light Railway - now with a big Quarry Hunslet
- Replies: 6
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Birches Barn Light Railway - now with a big Quarry Hunslet
Our latest 5" gauge addition ran on the BBLR for the first time today. The loco was built in 1979 to Don Young's design.
For a video see:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aJKjIR2Vc
For a video see:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aJKjIR2Vc
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:23 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: water tube boiler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4360
I have not heard of a water tube boiler in our scale. I suspect water capacity and hence duration would be low unless you were to fit a water pump. How about flash steam? That is point a gas torch down the middle of a coil of copper tube, with a non return valve and water pump on one end and the oth...