[modeleng] Re: Lapping, pumps, etc was

  • From: "Andrew Houston" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:44:13 -0000

Harry

Interesting to see you say "I believe it's cast bronze rather than
gunmetal".

I was always under the impression that "gun-metal" was another term used for
Bronze - ie a Copper/Tin Alloy.

How do you differentiate between the two?

Andy 

-----Original Message-----
From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Harry Wade
Sent: 20 February 2006 23:34
To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [modeleng] Lapping, pumps, etc was 

At 03:13 PM 2/20/06 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm interested in knowing more about the Reeves' pump casting you used as
a basis.  Do they have an on line catalogue? - Al

Al,
     They do, but you won't find a drawing/photo there or in their paper
catalogue.  Theye have 10,000's of castings so that's much too fine a level
of detail for them to show.  I can send you a drawing of the pump but
there's nothing partcilarly unique about it, it's one of dozens of similar
pump castings that Reeves and other suppliers sell, this one just happens
to be for this particular loco (Bridget) and I just happened to have a
spare casting which I found was a drop-in fit.  I believe it's cast bronze
rather than gunmetal, and I could easily have fabricated it from 660 bronze
bar if I'd needed to.  I haven't been updating my web site progress photos
lately so it's not posted there yet.

Regards,
Harry

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