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| bogstandard:
Stew, If you still haven't got the groove issue sorted, pop around and I am sure I can find some PB for you to resleeve with. John |
| Darren:
Stew, that's not nice when it happens is it... :( John, what a simple solution....thanks for sharing :dremel: |
| John-Som:
Whilst waiting for my workshop to warm up this morning I read thro the build notes on your loco – very impressive, I am in awe !!! I was particularly pleased to find your notes on machining the eccentrics. As this is what I shall be tackling this morning on my mill engine – --- Quote ---Tip a small bush turned up the finished width of the excentric used as a washer, so that when you skim the excentric to width you leave a witness mark on the bush this way the holes will be in the midle, and sheeve the will outomaticaly be the correct width. --- End quote --- These tips are little gems to those like me on a steep learning curve. I am beginning to think there must be something in the Cheshire water that produces such talented engineers. John S |
| sbwhart:
Hi John and John S Work has started to get in the way again I'll post the next chapter tonight. John thanks for the offer of material to sleeve, but as you'l read I went another way. John S pleased to be of help, I can't help but admire people who start this game off their own backs, with very little experience, and go on and produce some superb work, if I can help in any way please don't hesitate to ask. Have :wave: Fun Stew |
| bogstandard:
John, --- Quote ---I am beginning to think there must be something in the Cheshire water that produces such talented engineers --- End quote --- At one time in the not too distant past, I reckon about 80% of the male working population in this area was involved in engineering of some sort or another, railway works, Rolls-Royce (now Bentley Motors), Fodens and ERF (steam wagons and later, road haulage trucks), Royal Ordnance (munitions production), Midland Rollmakers (casting and machining steel mill rolls), plus all the small supporting industries etc. My wife even worked at Royal Ordnance for a time. So really we in this area have it in our blood, so if only a small few of the ones who were working in it took it up as a hobby, then we would automatically have a larger than normal percentage of model engineers. Because of the large amounts of people who worked in the railway industry, or had some sort of connection with it, like Stew for instance, there is a thriving community who build and run model locomotives. The rest of us have a lean in other directions of model engineering. John |
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