[modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: 3½ versus 5
- From: "Jem Harrison" <Jem.Harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:52:19 +0100
Thankyou alan,
This is the sort of information that I am looking for.
In our club, virtually all members purchase a boiler. I would rather have a
go at building one (watch the neighbours step back 5000 paces, rapidly). My
last experience with a butane torch over twenty years ago, was alarming; it
went up in flames in my hand, was dropped, rolled under the kitchen sink, I
unbolted the kitchen door, top and bottom, and played footy with the flaming
canister until I could kick it into the front garden. This all took about
twenty seconds, but it felt more like years at the time!
Your comments about backhead fittings is good to know. Thankyou.
Best wihses,
Jem
----- Original Message -----
From: "alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:48 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: 3½ versus 5
> Whilst the main concentration has been on the size you can machine, the
> boiler should also be given some thought.
>
> A round topped parallel boiler is MUCH easier to construct than a belpair
> taper boiler. Even if you are wealthy enough to buy it, the latter type of
> boiler will cost a great deal more.
>
> As for backhead fittings, you CAn make them closer to scale than LBSC did,
> it all depends upon how much work you want to put in. Similarly, you can
> add
> scale features and make it more true to life, if you so wish.
> At the same time, the prime purpose of a steam loco is to that it should
> run. If you built one as per the "words and music", you could always add
> finishing details at a later date, and could also make scale backhead
> fittings at your leisure.
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jem Harrison" <Jem.Harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:51 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: [modeleng] Re: 3½ versus 5
>
>
> Rich,
>
> Bear in mind that I am coming into model engineering from a background of
> building models in 7mm and 10mm to the foot, in which I tried to get the
> details as near to scale size as the Mark 1 eyeball could achieve.
>
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