Here is a list of all the postings Bill Walton has made in our forums. Click on a thread name to jump to the thread.
Thread: Southworth simplex boiler feed pump out of business? |
12/01/2020 16:25:22 |
Blackgates Engineering sells the Southworth pumps now. |
Thread: Sanderson Beam Engine |
06/06/2019 19:23:04 |
06/06/2019 19:21:25 |
06/06/2019 19:20:57 |
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06/06/2019 19:19:52 |
Here are a few of the best Sanderson Beam Engines images I have found. |
06/06/2019 19:14:30 |
Here are thumbnails of the Bray's Bench articles. We'll see if I get p |
06/06/2019 19:09:31 |
Most Sanderson Beam engines only have dummy governors, but I am posting some pictures of the Sanderson Beam that have working governors. |
05/06/2019 21:45:00 |
Part XI- MODEL ENGINEER 24 SEPTEMBER 1999 page 396-39 covers the dummy governor. |
05/06/2019 21:42:30 |
Have you seen the Model Engineer issues on the Sanderson Beam Engine? Part I-MODEL ENGINEER 18 DECEMBER 1998 page 735-737 |
Thread: Sanderson Beam Engine |
05/05/2019 01:08:25 |
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05/05/2019 01:03:49 |
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05/05/2019 01:03:09 |
05/05/2019 00:45:28 |
•Chris (R.C.) Hodrien provided me with another picture of original Steam engine at the Osnabrück Museum.
•My original quest was done, I hade had found pictures and two full size steam engine of a very similar design to the Sanderson Model, one picture from the Wadsworth, Springfield Mental Hospital and the engine at the Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück.
•But I now had a new quest, how is it that the same steam engine design exists in two countries with no know connection?
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05/05/2019 00:44:59 |
•The Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück has possibly the only existing full size engine of this type.
•I am very grateful for help from two very knowledgeable people, Chris (R.C.) Hodrien and Adam Harris from Camden Miniature Steam Services
Adam’s set me on the path to a Blackies publication “The Engineer and |
05/05/2019 00:44:50 |
•Surprisingly I ran across a similar model in Germany build by Eckartkercher. Eckartkercher referred me to the German model designer, Lothar Matrian.
•Lothar Matrian Model was designed after a full size engine which is at the Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück.
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05/05/2019 00:44:40 |
•I had contacted quite a few British Museums and several passed my request on.
•John McGoldrick (via a friend George )had seen a similar steam engine in "Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain" Vol 8 fig 85. p132 Made by F.C. Baker in 1870 This was the first picture of an original full size engine of the same design which was in use at the Wadsworth, Springfield Mental Hospital, F.C. Baker
•John McGoldrick suggest I contact Chris Hodrien at the ISSES (International Stationary Engine Society)
•Incidentally the Sanderson Co. went bankrupt in 1844.
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