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Post by durhambuilder on Jul 2, 2008 11:14:27 GMT
If you are an amateur boiler maker I would still put in a few threaded stays amongst the rivets otherwise you will have problems holding the plates the correct distance apart whilst soldering.
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Post by durhambuilder on Jun 9, 2008 20:21:22 GMT
I must admit I like Dean's idea of selling individual bits, If for example I could buy plans, a CNC'd cylinder, crank and other bits and bobs I'd be happy to make the rest or buy the odd bit here and there.
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 23, 2008 17:12:55 GMT
Live steam models were by far the cheapest on copper sheet (I think they're still using older stock) and are happy to supply the size you want. Their postage hurts a bit though!
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 23, 2008 17:10:11 GMT
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 23, 2008 12:39:51 GMT
I think this may have been covered before if so sorry. My local hardware shop sells a drain cleaning product (Barrettline Amo Kleen Knock out) which is essentially a litre of 97% sulphuric acid for £3.99. Any ideas on who this should be diluted to make a suitable pickle or is it just trial and error?
Thanks
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Post by durhambuilder on Apr 20, 2008 18:14:37 GMT
By strange co-incidence I read the an ME article about this earlier today. 3-16th Sept 1976 No 3544 page 867.
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Post by durhambuilder on Mar 9, 2008 17:37:41 GMT
I did get the regulator, not intentionally though, Somebody else had screwed it on and the girl on the till didn't notice................
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Post by durhambuilder on Mar 1, 2008 21:37:37 GMT
I'm about to start boiler making and though a second torch would be useful as a back up to my sievert set. I bought one of the Lidl's torches £14.99 for torch, handle, hose etc not expecting much but for the money it's fantastic. As an advantage it differs from my other set in that it has the air holes at the base of the neck tube rather than the burner, for an experiment I lit it and heated the bottom of a bean tin to simulate silver soldering the stays inside a fire box and it didn't go out whereas the sievet did which I guess was due to oxygen starvation. The burner is not huge and I would expect it would be impossible to get other nozzles so probably no goodon its own except for small jobs.
Go and buy one before they sell out!
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 8, 2008 12:51:00 GMT
The DNY is certainly a simpler engine to build, the prototype was very early so itself a little crude, The Gold medal Tractor was produced towards the end of full size TE production and was fairly sophisticated. The DNY was serialised in ME around 1979. At the end of the day enthusiasm is probably more important than skills, Its no good building an easy engine if your hearts not in it. The best advice I had was not to build anything too complicated to start with if your dream is a 4-6-0 loco build something simple first.................like the tender! Similarly with the TE look at the plans and do the easy bits first, by the time the harder bits come around you'll be amazed at what skills you have picked up.
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 14, 2007 12:08:57 GMT
Many thanks for the offer, I think at the moment I can see a way around the problem and use the proper Ajax ones, Having had a closer look at some of the simplex's (whats the plural for a group of simplex locos??) on Station road steam website in various stages of undress I don't think they'll be remotely suitable.
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 12, 2007 21:09:20 GMT
would somebody please be kind enough to email me a scan of the expansion link drawing. I'm building an AJAX and after half a dozen duff attempts I've had enough and thought an off the shelf Simplex set from Model engineers laser may do. How significant are things like radius of slot etc.
Thanks
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Post by durhambuilder on Jan 4, 2008 21:10:36 GMT
I guess most people here are a cheque book engineer to some extent it's just where you draw the line, many of us buy ready built boilers, castings and even nuts and bolts, the true die hard would probably create all from scratch.
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Post by durhambuilder on Dec 6, 2007 21:16:48 GMT
You could use the trimmed off bits to make the butt straps and then nothing is wasted.
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