[modeleng] Re: Donington
- From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:30:52 +0100
Hi All,
Evening Star for one.
The Water Gauge mountings were 1/4"x 40 drilled and tapped into the
backhead,the Blower cons were 3/8"x 40 and when Martin Evans took up the
design he drilled and tapped 8BA screws into the Boiler shell to hold the
top feeds.
This all happened somewhere in the late Sixties.
Regards
Clif
----- Original Message -----
From: "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:03 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Donington
> Did he?
>
>>
> What of his boiler designs are you thinking of, as it would seem odd if
> he went from designing like this around 1930, to being less 'careful'
> later on?
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Rich.
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Clif Walker wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > One of the snags with LBSC Boilers was that he quite happily drilled and
> > tapped the boiler barrel to fix handrails and feeds and just did the
same
> > thing for some of the fixings on the Backhead.
> > All of these should be bushed. The idea of something like a 1/4" X 40
thread
> > into 1/8" thick copper scares the hell out of me.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Clif
> >
> > ----- > Got the book on LBSC, his Life and Locomotives. It's quite
> > interesting to
> > > see that some of his designs are still being built, 50 years on.
> > >
> > > Question: are the techniques he used for his boiler designs and
> > > construction considered OK by today's standards, or is there a
pragmatic
> > > approach taken on the basis that they've never been known to fail?
> > >
> > > Peter Chadwick
> > > Swindon.
> > >
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