[modeleng] Re: Thoughts on future projects....
- From: "Clifton" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:06:25 -0000
Hi Chris,
I think a club or organization does exist for builders of steam launches.
I have seen their stand at an Exhibition but I cant remember which one.
A bit a research on the internet my find it.
regards
Clif
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Thoughts on future projects....
> Hi folks,
> I need some advice...
>
> In the next month or so the move of my old workshop at my parents house to
> my new very much larger workshop at my house will be complete (it's only
> taken two years to sort it out :))...
>
> Given how I work I rather suspect I will want to have three projects on
> the go once I've settled in..
>
> 1: The restoration of my horizontal mill...
> 2: Construction of an Orrery
> 3: It's about time I built something powered by steam...
>
> The mill is an old Herbert Simplimill, built like a tank, not all that big
> but weighs nearly a ton, I've got the vertical head for it and have
> tracked down some tooling... apart form just putting it back together and
> getting it running right I need to make some changegears for it as that's
> what it uses for setting speeds (and feeds) and I'm considering long-term
> putting Norton-style gearboxes on it for speed and feed selection.... The
> actual things I might do rather sooner than long-term is make a
> quill-based vertical head for it so that I can use it as a drilling
> machine, and I have a slotting head (from something else) that I'd like to
> get working on it too. Would welcome advice from people who have
> recommissioned mills or similar machines from a big pile of parts....
>
> The orrery is just something I want for my lounge and if it takes me 15
> years to get through that much watchmaking then so be it, I'll take it in
> easy stages, start off with an earth and moon, add a Sun, then the inner
> planets, then Mars, then build separate sets for the giants then get the
> whole lot working as one.... Don't need advice for that..
>
> The third bit is the one where it gets more complicated.... I've got two
> things in mind.... A steam powered bicycle based on the Hope layout
> probably built onto a butchers bike or similar, or a steam paddle launch.
> The launch would need to have a disassemblable hull ...I know how to do
> the disassemblable bit but I've never built a boat hull before and would
> need a design that I could adapt... Hopefully by making it disassemblable
> I could build an 18-foot or so paddle launch which would fit onto a
> smallish trailer. I've seen a launch that size (paddle too) running off
> the boiler and engine of a 7 ½" Shay (literarally mounted in the hull
> minus its wheels with the shaft taken to the paddle drive.... I'd prefer
> to do it with a vertical boiler of some description and a freelance two or
> three cylinder engine.... Any advice welcome there too... I'd want the
> boiler to get within the model boiler regs for ease of certification (it's
> not that the regs are less tight, it's just it's ea
> sier to find a tester and cheaper to get done...)... are there any designs
> for vertical or marine boilers near the model limit? What sort of pressure
> would be sane? 80psi? 150psi? What does a 7 ½" Shay have in terms of
> bar-litres and engine bore/stroke?
>
> chrisc
>
>
> QA Engineer
> Vicon Motion Systems, Oxford.
>
>
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