My earliest brush with model engineering was in 1967 when my clergyman father spotted a Victorian model of a steam portable engine lurking neglected in an old man’s workshop. It was black and filthy, seized solid and covered in sawdust, lying beneath a workbench next to its owner’s venerable treadle-driven Drummond round bed lathe. It had been built, we think, in the 1880s.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة 4626 من Model Engineer.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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WORKSHOP TIP - Boring Eccentrics
I am making a 1 inch Minnie traction engine and have arrived at the machining of the eccentric straps.
Wenford A 7¼ Inch Gauge 2-4-0 Beattie Well Tank
The stage has now been reached where the well tank body can be completed but beforehand there are some internal details to add.
Vertical Boiler Locomotives
Vertical Boiler Locomotives
Union Nuts, and How to Make Them
These are quite different from those commercially available and are made from copper
SHOWCASE Paul's Engine
One day my son Paul came to me and asked if we could make something in my workshop, so that he could learn engineering processes.
CLUB NEWS
My secret’s out!
Building Dancer - The Boiler
Dancer needed a boiler that would be somewhat larger than the size permitted under the Model Engineering exemptions in the New Zealand regulations.
An Inverted ‘Ross Yoke' Watercooled Stirling Engine
As with all my hot air engines they are cheap to build, mostly from scrap
A Draught Proposal
A Draught Proposal
A Boiler Feed Pump
A Boiler Feed Pump
