[modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:28:18 +1000
AND ......... a bloke I know could probably sent you drawerings of a
suitable 4" diameter horizontal boiler.
> Tony, if you are thinking of building your own boiler,
> run, don't walk, to your nearest agent for Tee
> Publications and buy yerself a copy of K. N. Harris'
> book "Model Boilers & Boilermaking" and if you want it
> to look scale, there are several vendors of model
> steam fittings in Britain that are excellent.
>
> Al Messer
>
> --- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This message of yours prompts me to ask another
> > novice type question Shep.
> > Apart from those members who run steam railways, of
> > whatever guage, does
> > anyone actually build their own steam boilers or
> > merely use compressed air
> > from such as a electric tyre pump? Whilst I have now
> > got several very
> > interesting sets of plans for the actual engines,
> > running from suitably
> > simplistic to absolutely fabulous, I cannot seem to
> > find any boiler plans
> > for some reason. I should imagine such things as
> > pressure regulators are
> > essential and so this puzzles me.
> >
> > As I have a nice brand new piece of drawn, seemless,
> > copper tubing some 75mm
> > in diameter, plus plenty of silver solder, I do have
> > hopes of making my own
> > boilers by the way. Is such as microbore central
> > heating plubing fixtures OK
> > to use however? I have seen both solder and
> > compression fittings in a
> > variety of sizes, including 6, 8 and 10mm diameter,
> > which will be OK if I
> > stick with metric scale models.
> >
> > Tony Wells.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:40 AM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?
> >
> >
> > > Dear Al
> > >
> > > Our hearts go out to you all at this time of a
> > great national calamity.
> > > We
> > > particularly think of you, whilst your eldest son
> > is doing search and
> > > rescue, and trying to control looting, in these
> > foul and dangerous
> > > conditions.
> > >
> > > To talk of more happy things - Pierre's engine
> > sounds interesting indeed!
> > > I spend most of my time making tools.
> > Presently, rather crazily at my
> > > age, I am making a small, but heavy and hopefully
> > precision, screw-cutting
> > > lathe. This is being machined from large lumps
> > of solid cast iron -
> > > producing masses of swarf and dirty carbon dust!
> > When visitors see my
> > > workshop, they ask 'What do you make?' I answer,
> > 'tools'. They then
> > > ask,
> > > 'what do you make then?' and I answer 'more
> > tools'. In order to divert
> > > these questions, I made a few stationary steam
> > engines, including one
> > > oscillator from scrap with a 1/16" piston.
> > > I was making a Stuart 10V engine from castings,
> > when I had the crazy idea
> > > of
> > > making one half that size, about 3 inches high.
> > It was easy to reduce
> > > the
> > > plans to about 48%, but from there on everything
> > had to be made out of the
> > > solid (mainly brass). The making the body of the
> > engine, the flywheel,
> > > and
> > > the minute slide valve, created interesting
> > problems. To my amazement
> > > the
> > > engine runs beautifully on compressed air, making
> > a noise like a
> > > bumble-bee!
> > > Looks quite pretty, too!
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Hubert
> >
> >
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