[modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?

  • From: "Charles & Dorothy Brumbelow" <cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:29:29 -0500

Send me your snail mail, Peter, in case it is too much to scan....once I 
locate it again.  Offline if you wish.  Charles

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter J. Cathcart" <peter.cathcart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?


>
> Speaking of stringing things out, does anyone still twist their own model
> ropes for sailing ship models from string?  I've a brief how-to writeup of
> building a miniature rope walk for the purpose, but don't know whether
> anyone actually does that anymore.
>
> _________________
>
> Charles
>
> I built a rope making machine last year which can take anything from 
> cotton
> to twine, but my favourite is the cotton string sold by B&Q.  Being a
> natural substance it twists into great ropes for knots.  I based it on a
> design by a friend who built his as he couldn't find rope suitable for the
> steam tug boat he was building from scratch.  The main reason for building
> it was for scouts.  However we did have it on the IDSME stand at Sandown
> Park last December and it went down a treat - particularly for the 
> boaters.
> Lots went away having made their first rope on the device.
>
> I would be very interested in your miniature rope walk.  Might be another
> suitable project for scouts.
>
> Peter Cathcart
>
>
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