Midland
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Post by Midland on Dec 31, 2021 18:51:41 GMT
Installed my hoist. Now I can lift the locos and tenders onto my lifter ready for the hatch to be opened for access to the car. No more struggling with resultant heart attacks. Might make it for a few more years. Mind you a railway in 00 could have been cheaper but hardly the fun! Happy New Year. David
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2021 19:09:57 GMT
Installed my hoist. Now I can lift the locos and tenders onto my lifter ready for the hatch to be opened for access to the car. No more struggling with resultant heart attacks. Might make it for a few more years. Mind you a railway in 00 could have been cheaper but hardly the fun! Happy New Year. David Better still, an O Gauge or perhaps even gauge 1 around the garden? I would like to at least build a garden railway in one of these gauges... Pete
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Post by GWR 101 on Dec 31, 2021 19:17:20 GMT
I couldn't agree more, we have an SM 32 track at the club, some time maybe, perhaps. I must make the New Years resolution not to get side-tracked from the current project, one can live in hope. A healthy, prosperous and productive new year to all. Paul
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Kevan
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Post by Kevan on Dec 31, 2021 19:54:38 GMT
Look what I have done so far this week Hopefully it will end up as a riding truck. I have some 3 1/2” gauge wheels and am wondering if I will get away with using them on 5” gauge track, otherwise I need to find some 3 1/2” diameter steel stock to make some wheels!
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Post by RGR 60130 on Jan 1, 2022 16:03:33 GMT
Happy New Year to all.
Having reached the end of yet another year I was looking at how many hours I'd spent in the workshop on the A1 and A2 projects. Retirement (unless I get an offer I can't refuse) seems to be helping but the total hours aren't great. What you don't see here is perhaps ten hours a week for months on the A2 design work. On top of that is all the other things that take my time but overall I still seem to be making good progress and enjoying what I do. At the end of the day it's a hobby.
Reg
YEAR A1 HOURS A2 HOURS TOTAL HRS 2006 178 178 2007 27.5 27.5 2008 59.5 59.5 2009 18 18 2010 33 33 2011 99 99 2012 124.5 124.5 2013 32.5 32.5 2014 33 33 2015 10 10 2016 39 20 59 2017 44 44 2018 0 0 2019 126 126 2020 111 21 132 2021 42 147 189 977 188 1165
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Post by suctionhose on Jan 2, 2022 10:24:13 GMT
Happy New Year to all. Having reached the end of yet another year I was looking at how many hours I'd spent in the workshop on the A1 and A2 projects. Retirement (unless I get an offer I can't refuse) seems to be helping but the total hours aren't great. What you don't see here is perhaps ten hours a week for months on the A2 design work. On top of that is all the other things that take my time but overall I still seem to be making good progress and enjoying what I do. At the end of the day it's a hobby. Reg Happy New year to you Reg! The main thing thing is that you enjoy it. For myself, if the chosen model can't be finished in under ten years then too much is at risk of falling victim to "life changes" and never getting it finished (assume that is the objective - not everybody wants to finish and run them) I aim to do at least 10 hours a week on the tools - hopefully in one or two blocks of time. The design and research happens more or less continuously in evenings or spare moments throughout the week. Some weeks are better than others. They need to be because 'other commitments' can steal weeks out of the schedule. "Time waits for no man..." Even at 500 hours on the tools per year, complicated models take years to make. My family are on notice that I'm on my last push to finish the traction engine which commenced in Jan 2015 (7 years already!). With the shear magnitude of what you have embarked upon - 2 very high quality Pacifics with tenders - your run rate has to increase or alternatively you need to outsource as much as possible (which is Catch 22 in retirement and trying save those pennys) Anyway, all the best, plug on and most importantly enjoy the journey however long it takes!
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Post by suctionhose on Jan 2, 2022 10:30:10 GMT
Today: Coaxed an unresponsive adolecent out of bed at 7am and drove 20 mins to the beach. Got parking. Over came sulleness. Swam in sea. Paddled the Kayak. Ate burgers. Drank coffee. Beautiful morning. Home by 11am.
The now rejuvinated young teen helped in the workshop riveting the tender tank (for the first time in 7 years) and now she wants her name on the engine somewhere??? I'm telling you - give 'em an inch and they take a mile!!!
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mbrown
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Post by mbrown on Jan 2, 2022 10:38:10 GMT
That first paragraph must have been written to make us mid-winter Brits envious!
As for the second paragraph, surely you have got things the wrong way around.... Name your offspring to suit possible future models! (I always thought "Burrell" and "Allchin" were lovely names...).
Happy New Year!
Malcolm
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stevep
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Post by stevep on Jan 2, 2022 12:43:53 GMT
That first paragraph must have been written to make us mid-winter Brits envious! We went to the beach yesterday to take the dogs for a New Years Day walk, and there were hundreds of people swimming in the sea!
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lesstoneuk
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Post by lesstoneuk on Jan 2, 2022 13:04:28 GMT
That first paragraph must have been written to make us mid-winter Brits envious! As for the second paragraph, surely you have got things the wrong way around.... Name your offspring to suit possible future models! (I always thought "Burrell" and "Allchin" were lovely names...). Happy New Year! Malcolm I put it to my missus, many many years ago that my preferred name for a son was Anthony James Stone..............
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Post by RGR 60130 on Jan 2, 2022 15:40:04 GMT
With the shear magnitude of what you have embarked upon - 2 very high quality Pacifics with tenders - your run rate has to increase or alternatively you need to outsource as much as possible (which is Catch 22 in retirement and trying save those pennys) [/quote] Hi Ross, I'm hoping that I'll start to manage more hours now that I've done a lot of catching up with the house etc. following a lifetime of working away 6-8 months a year. I also had the foresight to purchase as much as I could before retiring so I'm sitting on commercial boilers and all the laser cut bits I could think of for my A1. The A2 is probably less than 100 hours away from being a rolling chassis and I have a laser cut tender body ready to build for it. At 61 I'd like to think I'll have enough time to get them completed but tomorrow is never guaranteed for anyone. I'm just plucking up courage to machine the flanges off the finish machined A1 wheels to fit steel tyres (which I already have). Based on the A2 that will add about 30 hours to the project but what the hell, it isn't a race! Reg
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Kevan
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Post by Kevan on Jan 2, 2022 21:00:05 GMT
So this is how far I have got. The authentic wagon under frame finish has been achieved by using 100% recycled scrap metal! The shiny bits are just bits where all the rust was deposited on the lathe or mill! There have been some challenges as I started off scaling 1:12 which has created some challenges with the width to allow the wheels to sit properly across the frames. Next problem is finding some springs around 9mm diameter that can support about 30Kg per corner any idea where to find some?
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Post by mugbuilder on Jan 3, 2022 6:53:42 GMT
Like Ross , I try to get 10 + hours in a week. The years are catching up and I would hate to kick the bucket with an unfinished engine on the bench. Happy new year one and all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2022 10:45:29 GMT
Morning all After the discussion on magnifiers I bit the bullet and bought the dentist binocular set recommended by Tim. Thanks, Tim, this is excellent, it took me a few minutes to adjust the lens to suit my eyes and get used to the much further working distance than I'm used too but I have to say that these are going to help me immensely, especially with machine work due to the much longer working distance than normal magnifiers give you. The light is very good and dimmable (about half way in the picture) which I wasn't expecting, it's also a self contained unit so can be used with other magnifiers or even just over the bench/lathe etc. The other item of interest in this picture is one of the presents that my Daughter got me for Xmas, she did very well finding an image of 4472 as an A1, IIRC this is the same image as on my mug. She knows what I'm building that's for sure... Pete
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Post by cplmickey on Jan 3, 2022 14:00:11 GMT
So this is how far I have got. Next problem is finding some springs around 9mm diameter that can support about 30Kg per corner any idea where to find some? Don't know if this helps or not but I used these on my riding truck www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274613483650?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=574838326544&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649I see they also do 8mm diameter springs which might be ok for your truck. The springs come in 5 different colours which correspond to load capabilities but it doesn't seem to give a value - I've got the red ones on my riding truck which seems to suit my 80Kg weight pretty well. Ian
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Post by Jock McFarlane on Jan 3, 2022 20:52:30 GMT
So this is how far I have got. Next problem is finding some springs around 9mm diameter that can support about 30Kg per corner any idea where to find some? Don't know if this helps or not but I used these on my riding truck www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274613483650?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=574838326544&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649I see they also do 8mm diameter springs which might be ok for your truck. The springs come in 5 different colours which correspond to load capabilities but it doesn't seem to give a value - I've got the red ones on my riding truck which seems to suit my 80Kg weight pretty well. Ian I, too, have used them and they are excellent. They also have the advantage that they come in various lengths nicely finished so you don't have to cut them and grind the ends which I never did find satisfactory.
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Kevan
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Post by Kevan on Jan 4, 2022 0:05:30 GMT
Thanks folks I have ordered some yellow at 10mm Diameter. Next problem is that I have chipped a flange on one of the wheels. Is this now scrap or recoverable with metal loaded epoxy ?
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Jan 4, 2022 12:33:47 GMT
I've used the metal epoxy but reinforced it by drilling the flange and inserting a pin to take the side loads.
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Post by gwr1509 on Jan 4, 2022 18:29:12 GMT
have installed a DRO (second-hand) to all 3 axes of the Emco FB2. A solution was also found on the round column (Z-axis), so that the axis can still be rotated. DRO_FB2_01 by Helmut Jarosch, auf Flickr DRO_FB2_02 by Helmut Jarosch, auf Flickr Regards Helmut
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Post by andyhigham on Jan 4, 2022 20:18:47 GMT
I may have added another loco to my stable. A little 3 1/2" Don Young "Lucky 7" I go to look at it/pick it up next wenesday
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