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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1851
Re: fuel topic
Flaming dinosaurs do not all smell the same! I have been around traction engines, both full size and model since the mid 1950s. Owned, driven and repaired all sorts. At this very moment I have a 4 inch scale Clayton wagon and a 3 1/2 inch gauge model railway engine loaded ready to go to club boiler ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Museum Quality 3/4" Hudson
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1807
Re: Museum Quality 3/4" Hudson
There is a big difference between models built for museums, which show all details scaled, as exactly as possible and models built to the same standard of workmanship, BUT actually made to work. Both have merit, but the ones made to run are much more fun ! I have a splendid 2 inch scale traction eng...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1851
Re: fuel topic
We, That is son James and I have mainly burnt coal, and will continue to do so as long as it is available. We have experimentally, and not always entirely successfully burnt other burnables ranging fron parquet flooring, pine cones, hardwood in the form of chopped up furniture and lately banister ra...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: New to 3/4" scale
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1262
Re: New to 3/4" scale
Take a journey with me. Richmond Hill Club, engine Caribou 0-8-0 in good order, one car behind, 4 adults load, Stand in station, 90 lbs on the clock, 3/4 glass, blower on, bypass open in full gear. Crack regulator, move off slowly, travel gently over traverser, open regulator to 1/2 notch up one tur...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: New to 3/4" scale
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1262
Re: New to 3/4" scale
For those interested in driving models as if they were full size engines 3/4 inch scale models give a really good opportunity. If you take a heavy but free running driver;s car , driver ( in my case now 200 lbs) and a passenger( Say a 100 lbs child) you have a reasonable load for an 0-4-0. If you ca...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: New to 3/4" scale
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1262
Re: New to 3/4" scale
The more conventional locos, ie those which have fixed wheelbases, such as 0-6-0 s 4-6-2s etc and are not articulated , have a hard time on many tracks with less than 30 ft radius curves. I am currently doing a running restoration on a Caribou 0-8-0 and I have only a half circle of 30 ft radius with...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:12 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
I used to be a fairly quick worker, not so nowadays. Just recently I decided to build up a bit of a stationary generating plant as a change from my big coal fired models. So far I have spent two weeks simply cleaning up a Stuart 504 boiler, a 10 v engine, making a propane burner for the boiler, arra...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
I thoroughly second Pontiacguy.s advice. I have repaired and brought back to use some really poorly built engines. It is FAR more challenging work than simply buying a simple set of castings and drawings and building to the best of your ability. I would recommend you build a small simple stationary ...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:18 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
My 93 yr old machinist pal calls all verniers, be they plain, dial or electronic.. VERY NEARS. Probably the most important tool in a beginners toolbox is a good quality 0 to 1 ( or 0 to 25 if you work in metric measure) inch micrometer. You will not be building space rockets so a good secondhand one...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
You do not need to be highly skilled to get acceptable results. This morning I made a sub base for a small model steam engine I purchased. I have all sorts of expensive machine tools, measuring equipment etc, Just for fun I did things the simple way, I used a couple of big files, a 1 /16 inch transf...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 5:59 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
I would agree that MR Pete.s videos are about the best instructional ones on the internet. Watch them by all means, but do more than that, put his advice to work in your workshop. Read all you can, Live Steam and Model Engineer magazines are full of useful advice, drawings you can build from, and ab...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12301
Re: How to get started?
It was a bit of a hard start. Our first venture into scale models, after worrying the life out of Wilesco, Mamod and Bowman models was when we bought a finished, allegedly running 3/4 inch spirit fired traction engine for 20 pounds in 1963. Once steamed up she would not run, Dad went back to the bui...