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Bernd:
That does look like a tight squeeze with all those rods.

Looking at the Tiny I see that it's sort of a tank engine. So what kind of fuel did they use to boil the water? I'm going to assume coal, but were would you carry it?

Bernd

sbwhart:
Hi Bernd

Yes your correct about it being a tank engine, water was carried in the front part of the tank, coal in the back, where the driver stands, the interesting bit is that the driver only stoked the boiler when he was stopped, but as he was taking bits arround the works he was stopping regularly so thats was no problem, and I supose they would have stashes of coal strategicly placed arround the works, apparently one of these engines Midge had a driver who was 20 stone thats 280 lbs in your money. :bugeye:


Have Fun
 :wave:
Stew

sbwhart:
Hi Bernd

Bin thinking about the Climax are you planning to use a Stewart twin for your motive power, they probibly sell something prity close to what you want, also are they front and back bogies or are they fixed ?. :scratch:

Noticed on your shop photos that you've got a Sieg mill is it an X2, I'm planning on getting an X3 after a shop reorganisation, are they any good?.

Cheers
 :wave:
Stew

Bernd:

--- Quote from: sbwhart on December 22, 2008, 05:20:58 PM ---Hi Bernd

Yes your correct about it being a tank engine, water was carried in the front part of the tank, coal in the back, where the driver stands,

Have Fun
 :wave:
Stew

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Ok. That's what I thought but wanted to make sure.

Now that I see a driver standing on the engine I can get a better perspective of the size. I had thought that it would have been larger for some reason.

Nice pics by the way.

Bernd

Bernd:

--- Quote from: sbwhart on December 22, 2008, 07:51:53 PM ---Hi Bernd

Bin thinking about the Climax are you planning to use a Stewart twin for your motive power, they probibly sell something prity close to what you want,

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No I plan on modifying a design I saw in Model Tech magizne. It will be based on an engine design that somebody came up with for the CliShay. It's a bigger engine, but I didn't like the looks of it but I liked the 2" bore by 2" stroke. The original engine had a 1.256" bore by 1.5" stroke. I would like to make it as close looking to a launch engine as I can.


--- Quote --- also are they front and back bogies or are they fixed ?. :scratch:

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Again refer to the pics and line print. They are bogies. Both will swivel. I know what your next guestion will be. :med:
How are they powered? I'll scan a few pics of how I'm going to do it.


--- Quote ---Noticed on your shop photos that you've got a Sieg mill is it an X2, I'm planning on getting an X3 after a shop reorganisation, are they any good?.

Cheers
 :wave:
Stew

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That's a Grizzly or X2. Take a look at my web site and check out the mini-mill page. I show how I converted the metric thread to an imperial thread. Still looking to go to a belt drive. The machine is fine for small work. I won't use it to make 1 1/2" live steam parts. it's not rigid enough and I don't like the whole head moving up and down. Not very accurate for doing any boring of holes. But for small table top steam engines of the Elmer Verburg size it's ok. The X3 I believe has a separate spindle movement from the column. I think that's much better.

I'm thinking we are going to need a separate thread for this subject of engine building, what do you think? I'm open to suggestions. :thumbup:

Bernd

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