Member postings for paul rushmer

Hi Michael its times like this belonging to a club helps, my club have a set and at least two members me being one. Iam on the cambs essex suffolk boarder if it is any use.

Paul

Gary

I will taik to the right man on monday when I get back to work.

Paul

Hi

I happen to work for the company that still make the modern version (Bernhard & co). The cylinder or real is mounted in the two bronze bearings and slowly rotated and the grinding wheel is rotated and moved along the large slotted shaft. One of my jobs is to put the slots in the shaft of the modern machines, if you can find a serial no we have all the order books and should be able to find the manufacture date and customer.

Hope this helps Paul

Mike

The dealers that spring to mind:- Steam Workshop, Station road steam, Antique steam, Steamdays, Used Myford lathes, View Models & Maxitrack. Several of the material suppliers allso sell used models MJ engineering & GS models.

Hope this helps Paul

Food for thought many of the larger model dealers stock there shelves from the auction houses, but if you buy from a dealer you get some form of garantee or a try before you buy. I was out bid on a small model only to see it listed on ebay for twice the price and sold.

Paul

Hi

3 1/4 gauge does come up at model auctions some times, last year a greenly electric loco from 1905 came up at my local auction house. I have two midland bogie carrages and a 5 plank open wagon.

Paul

Roche is correct the drawing says details LMS Locos these did not have a gedge the couplings had a slot in them so the eye of a coupling shackle could pass through it. I hope this makes sence, gedges were normaly only used on freight stock.

Paul

I have one of those from the days the family ran a garage, Its for riviting new linings on brake shoes (drum brakes).

Paul

I aggee with Mike not the best quality I use a bridgeport style supplyed by them and it seems a good machine my previous employer had a excel lathe new I preffered to use the much older colchester. Search for excel machine tools coventry they are still in business. In the past they have made tools in UK I use a 12inch rotary table that says made in coventry

hope this helps Paul

Hi I have used tufnol for springs, the correct type is the sort made with canvas (not paper) the finer type it has the name of a fish possibly carp. As for temperature try 120 C rolled in a tin, the tin is used to not take to must heat from the oven it will spring back so you need a tighter radius. You could use bronze and if to stif machine a stot in the middle.

Paul

Thanks for the thoughts so far, the head stock is a bronze casting, base is cast iron with plywood infill with mountings for motor so not origional and yes the mounting bracket is a lump of angle.

Thanks Paul

I rescued this from a scrap heap approximatly 18 inches long with a centre height of 2 1/2 inches, looks commercially made. I dont know wether it is a wood or instrument lathe. Spindle looks 1/2" BSW and solid Thanks Paul

Edited By JasonB on 29/05/2022 14:07:18

Hi Jason

Thought you mite like to see my fathers take on the real. Fluted columns redesigned piston rod support acorn nuts and a large pulley, he wanted to fit a govener but that never got done.

Paul

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Hi Duncan

Try looking on R.S. components for mate&lock. If it helps you can get the pins out we used the special tool but a simple thin wall tube turned up on the lathe works well it should be a good fit on the pin to close the barbs in then pull on the wire.

Paul

What I want to know is why are the glass bottles from the milk man differant colours from the plastic ones from the suppermarket?

slow fingers you beet me

Edited By paul rushmer on 26/05/2022 18:40:04

Having worn out the pins in my Marlco I watched this thread with intrest , I have just ordered some rollers from Simply Bearings. Many thanks every body.

Paul

Hi Clive

Looks like Tina from GLR to me, If you look on there web site there are pictures of the individual castings.

Hope this helps Paul

This one was built by Ivan law and uses a body kit from model engineers laser. I have severial part built (nun by me) and all the articles if I can help I will try looking in my albums

Paul

At Cambridge Model Engineers we use a local company called filcris thay supply many sections of recycled plastic wood. They have advertised in ME in the past.

Paul