Post by David on Oct 18, 2018 9:42:40 GMT
I just looked at my profile and see I joined in 2013, and posted my only 2 messages earlier this year. So perhaps a hello message is in order at last.
I live in Orange, NSW, so I even have a fellow club member on here (hi Jim!) I see a few familiar names from other places like greenglade from rmweb and Lisa from facebook.
I started model engineering sometime within the last 8 - 10 years (I have 4 children under 15 years of age - I lose track of time) by purchasing the parts of a dismantled 'Blowfly' and a terribly abused little lathe and making all the missing bits. Luckily the cylinders/crossheads, valves, and boiler were present! Basically everything else under the running boards was gone so there were a few bits to make. Then I made a tender for it. Then I've fought with keeping the injectors clean ever since. I gave it a major overhaul at the beginning of 2017 and it is like a totally different loco, when I can get water into it.
For my 40th I bought myself a new lathe and milling machine and for about the last 5 or 6 years I've been making a 5" gauge NSW mogul. I made the tender first and have the loco running on air, the boiler pressure-tight, and am now working on the brakes.
I've been making my way through Roger's 14xx build with interest because I've just bought a CNC mill and am muddling along without coolant so far because I don't want the mess so I'm keen to learn how he gets such good results. My output with it so far has been little and far between, and not all that good.
I've been looking at greenglade's work over on rmweb so I'm familiar with the recent progress but there are about 128 pages before that on here I need to go through...
I'm also enjoying Oily Rag's thread because I'd like to make a 45mm gauge steamer one day. That boiler is something to behold! Mine would be standard gauge though.
I haven't seen much else because working through the above is a full time job on it's own!
Regards, David.
I live in Orange, NSW, so I even have a fellow club member on here (hi Jim!) I see a few familiar names from other places like greenglade from rmweb and Lisa from facebook.
I started model engineering sometime within the last 8 - 10 years (I have 4 children under 15 years of age - I lose track of time) by purchasing the parts of a dismantled 'Blowfly' and a terribly abused little lathe and making all the missing bits. Luckily the cylinders/crossheads, valves, and boiler were present! Basically everything else under the running boards was gone so there were a few bits to make. Then I made a tender for it. Then I've fought with keeping the injectors clean ever since. I gave it a major overhaul at the beginning of 2017 and it is like a totally different loco, when I can get water into it.
For my 40th I bought myself a new lathe and milling machine and for about the last 5 or 6 years I've been making a 5" gauge NSW mogul. I made the tender first and have the loco running on air, the boiler pressure-tight, and am now working on the brakes.
I've been making my way through Roger's 14xx build with interest because I've just bought a CNC mill and am muddling along without coolant so far because I don't want the mess so I'm keen to learn how he gets such good results. My output with it so far has been little and far between, and not all that good.
I've been looking at greenglade's work over on rmweb so I'm familiar with the recent progress but there are about 128 pages before that on here I need to go through...
I'm also enjoying Oily Rag's thread because I'd like to make a 45mm gauge steamer one day. That boiler is something to behold! Mine would be standard gauge though.
I haven't seen much else because working through the above is a full time job on it's own!
Regards, David.
