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Darren:

--- Quote from: Andy on August 06, 2009, 08:07:03 PM ---

The guy who has done the videos that I saw sounds like an American and appears to have assumed the name.

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Ah, well that's be rooted out as a newby then, I didn't know he wasn't american.... :doh:

That sure does seem an odd way to go about things though, taking on someone elses pseudonym... :scratch:

Brass_Machine:
Wow Peter... Very nice post. Anxious to see it run.

 :clap: :clap: :clap:

Eric

bogstandard:

--- Quote ---That sure does seem an odd way to go about things though, taking on someone elses pseudonym...
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I looked up Tom Walshaw's pseudo, when I first started to read about him, well before internet days.

It is mentioned in a passage from Genesis in the Bible, and is a very apt name. I suggest you have a look yourself.


Bogs

Stilldrillin:
Peter,
Marvellous post. Very well described, & shown.....  :clap:

Looking forward seeing it run successfully.  :thumbup:

David D

klank:
Thanks David.

To avoid giving the wrong impression - I feel I ought to add to the first posting of this project that none of the ideas for it and those I am considering doing are mine.
A bit like "Japanese" auto engineering - I have taken some of the best ideas that suit my abilities from other disparate sources and cobbled them together.
The overall "display" ideas I gleaned from a couple of old articles in back issues of ME. The ideas for steam drying, feed water pre-heating, boiler/pipe fixtures and so on etc. from books.

There is a lot to be gained from reading not only TC's books (aimed at the beginner) but also three more :- Model Loco Boilers - Martin Evans; and the two by K N Harris - Model boilers and Boiler Making and Model Stationary and Marine Steam Engines.
All of these appear superficially a bit "dated" due to when they were first published (over 30 years ago?) but are really excellent and well worth tracking down. The authors treat you "old Skool" - i.e. that you are intelligent, can read and understand basic scientific principles and have some practical abilities.
In them I discovered a whole host of ideas, sketches and formulae covering virtually everything to do with model steam "stuff". I understand they are still available over here as re-prints- quite cheaply too - I got mine second hand off Amazon.

To add to Bogs worthy comments re - Tubal Cain - look up Genesis Ch. 4 v22 - "Son of Zillah, 'forged all kinds of tools out of Bronze and Iron'.
Some say, the Patron of Engineers!
(the name also crops up in the opening stanza of an old hit record of the '70's? - as a loco driver - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down")

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