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Hi neil,

I have put some pictures in my profile of tiches progresion.

Stephen

Hello John,

Thankyou for your kind comments i am sure i will have as much pleasure out of it as i have had building it, i have certantley learnt alot from it and if i make a mistake the parts and castings are not to expencive to have another go! And at the end i hope to have a half respectible engine which i can put on display in a display case i have made for it.

The origional engine was given to my dad by his grandad many years ago with little sucksess so it is nice for me to have a go and make somthing of it.

Out of interes how are you getting on with your tich?

Kind regards Stephen

Neil,

just to say that i am currently building a tich ,well technicaly a restoration but have ended up re making most of it. If its any help i am finding no problems with making the parts although i am only 18 and have relitavley small hands to cope with it, anyway when building a first model i think it is important to have a book of words to help with the proseses, i have certantly have found it (tich book) a great help although you can use these methods to build other engines as well such as the juliet. My only wory at the moment is its capability when finished, If i had the choice now i would have gone for somthing bigger as there is just as much involved whatever the size. There are many other engines which can be build with a 3 1/2 inch lathe the hardest part is what your doing, which one to go for!   PS i would recomend not using reeves as they seem expensive, however blackgates are very reasonable and are very helpfull

All the best Stephen

Edited By stephen. on 12/09/2012 21:23:50

Hello there, looking at the photos of 5'' terrriers i was wandering how you cope with oiling the excentrics and big ends as the side tanks get in the way? your help would be much aprichiated as i am looking into posibly building one myself. kind regards stephen

I dont surpose someone can remember which model engineers the tich drawings were published in. It might just be me but i remember seeing or hearing somewhere that the return cranks were slightly diferent in the drawings to the book.

stephen

does someone have a set of drawings for a 3 1/2 tich that could be emailed to me. Your help would be much apriechiated? Has anyone had problems with the drawings?