Building a 31/2" Gauge Locomotive Engine

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sbwhart:
Hi Ralph

Yes Chest more or less done, :thumbup: just got to make the stuffing nuts for the piston, for that I need to order a 3/8" * 40 ME die, thought I had one but no, still when you've got it you've got it. :borg:

Have :wave:

fun

Stew

bogstandard:
Got one you can borrow if you want Stew.

John

sbwhart:
Thanks John
:offtopic:

I'll pop round Tuesday night if thats ok, Jammy donuts on me. :thumbup:

Cheers

Stew

sbwhart:
Hi Chaps

Its getting near the time when I'll start on the old loco project again, I think I'm nearly over my bad dose of :proj:

and I've had a couple of :poke: from Ralph.

I'm going to set myselve the objective of completing the valve gear for my loco, and hopfully get the it running on air.

The loco uses the Allen straight link valve gear which is an adaptations of the Stephenson and the Gouch system the main advantage of the Allen gear is that it was easyer to manufacture, I'm sounding very knowlegable arn't I but I've just read that in a book, Loco valve gears are a huge subject on their own over 40 systems were in use.

This is the valve gear for my loco and I tried attaching an animation of it but the file was too large so you'll have to Google it yourselve

So watch this space

Stew

Divided he ad:
It's about Bl@#*/y time :lol:

Good to see your thinking about this again Stew.... It's just that I want to come see it running in a few weeks..... Waht? That's not likely.....? I think you'd best get your skates on :poke:

Seriously.... a few months then :thumbup:

Eager to see this beastie take shape Stew.... However long it takes :thumbup:

.... Seen this? :nrocks:

you have now :D

Ralph.

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