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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 30, 2021 6:57:45 GMT
I had a C1 for a couple of years and replaced it with a vw up, completely different car and infinitely better admittedly at a greater cost. Always check the mot online, you can go back to 2006 or so and gives an indication on how well the car has been maintained or whether things have had to be done just to scrape it through another test.
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 30, 2021 6:47:14 GMT
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 29, 2021 20:50:42 GMT
I have broached square holes using the square ends of broken taps, a touch on the grindstone to give a concave end helps.
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 10, 2020 18:11:55 GMT
Like may boilers of the time the Rob Roy boiler was originally designed/drawn with a silver soldered shell and threaded / caulked stays. Adding the caulked stays would therefore be true to design. In the absence of any existing certification the boiler will need a 2x test anyway.
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 8, 2020 18:01:43 GMT
It looks well built with neat soldering but does appear to be missing a pair of stays beneath the fire hole, not the end of the world these could be added and comsol caulked but not ideal.
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Post by durhambuilder on May 24, 2020 12:13:22 GMT
Could you trim down Triumph Vitesse / GT6 etc bonnet stop cones?
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 7, 2020 17:17:50 GMT
Loved my Vitesses, each one a little tweaked from the previous, my third and last one, overbored and tuned 2.6pi, went like stink, despite on occasions of sticking a grape between my foot and the accelerator pedal and not squashing it I could never get more than 18mpg out of it.
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 3, 2020 18:05:11 GMT
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 15, 2019 19:38:06 GMT
looks as if somebody has bought it, now sold!
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Post by durhambuilder on Sept 24, 2019 10:20:42 GMT
No problems marking the gauge, use a cocktail stick to apply the paint.
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Post by durhambuilder on Sept 8, 2019 19:53:25 GMT
I had a very similar dilemma a couple of months ago but between Conway and Ross Harrison's 3.5" Lilla (check stationroadsteam archive for a rather nice example). Hunslette was suggested at the time but I discounted it because it is significantly smaller model and I thought the wheels a little small so the motion would have been spinning at a fair old pace around our longish track. I've just started Lilla, it is described in Vol 1 and 2 of Engineering in miniature. Downside is only Blackgates do the castings and in my opinion are a little pricey however the build series does give full details of building without castings which is probably the way I will go. Just to be unconventional I'm starting with the boiler.
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 20, 2019 17:17:05 GMT
Por 15 tank sealant is the Rolls Royce treatment, Isoflex is a slightly cheaper alternative.
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Post by durhambuilder on Feb 9, 2017 19:53:56 GMT
Mine looks better from the outside, internally it's about 18ft x 7ft. Since the photos were taken the large horizontal mill has been replaced by a Tom Senior and the Boxford has been replaced with a Colchester Chipmaster. Henry still diligently sucks up more than his own body weight in swarf every week even after 7 or 8 years.
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 22, 2017 17:20:31 GMT
I would have thought the firebox sides would melt or at least distort without the water space to keep them cool? I can get the fire on my 2"TE glowing almost white when pulling hard.
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Post by durhambuilder on May 6, 2013 19:37:54 GMT
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Post by durhambuilder on Mar 22, 2013 19:06:09 GMT
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Post by durhambuilder on Mar 15, 2013 14:54:31 GMT
live steam models appear to have it, must be a strange size though, it's twice the price of the next largest.
Julian
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 20, 2012 21:02:55 GMT
John,
It's the Martin Evans Super Claud which is not strictly to scale, doom mongers say its all wrong to the original but I think it's a great looking miniature which at the end of the day is good enough for me. Station road steam had a lovely 7 1/4" claud in a few months ago, photos in their archive.
Happy Christmas all.
Julian
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 18, 2012 7:08:52 GMT
Thanks guys, much appreciated. Yes the balance weights are cast in very roughly about 90 degrees from the crank pin bosses. I guess It would have been clearer to ask the relationship between the crank axle and the crank pin. I'll do them at 180 degrees as Julian and superseven suggested.
Many Thanks.
Julian
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 17, 2012 21:38:05 GMT
I'm about to fix the main driving wheels to the crank axle of my 4-4-0 Super Claud and wondered if there is a correct alignment. Do the balance weights on the wheels have to be set in relation to the cranks or does it not really matter in this scale?
Thanks
Julian
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