Member postings for Michael Johnson 6

Sorry, I must have clicked into the wrong forum. I thought this was a Model Engineering Forum, but it seems to be an English language revision forum. If you want to question the literacy of people I suggest you go to Facebook. Almost every post there has spelling or grammatical errors. Some to the point of being almost unintelligible.

How does that oft quoted (mis-quoted?) line from the bible read? "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" (John chapter 8 v3-7)

It's not just ME magazine. On the BBC news this evening Clive Myrie announced that the Dambusters (617 Squadron) were based at RAF SCRAMPTON. As with the previous post there is a rogue letter R in there. It's SCAMPTON! I should know as I was involved in the runway refurbishment a few years ago while the Red Arrows were still based there.

I see from an email received earlier today that they are going to do a reprint and distribute in the next few days. Probably not really required as I expect most have done what I did and removed the staples and re-assembled in the correct order??

Here here!. Just taken it all apart, re-ordered and re-stapled. Nice little challenge for a Monday morning!

Thanks everyone for the welcome. It's great to know that the Model Engineering world is a friendly and helpful place.

Hello all,

I'm Mike and I've recently bought a quite old Myford Super 7 that seems to be in quite reasonable condition. I was planning (rather too ambitiously" to build a 2" or 3" traction engine, but after looking at the set of drawings that i bought, it's not a realistic plan at the moment - mainly due to overall cost and (boiler - best part of £3000) and a two year wait. Also not sure that the Myford Super 7 is really big enough for a project of that size and complexity and not currently having a milling machine. So I have a bought a Tom Senior kit from "The Engineers Emporium" and have made a start. I may well be asking questions on this forum for some tips on how to machine certain components. Although I am a time served Mechanical Engineer I have never done milling operations on a small lathe, so that might well be an area that I need advice. I would also be interested to have details of a model engineering club within a reasonable distance that is not focussed solely on model railways - no offence but I'm not really interested in that aspect, although many of the processes and techniques etc would no doubt be the same for what I am doing.

The best product that I have found is Auto Glym Fast Glass. - spray on and wipe off with a clean micro-fibre cloth.

Thanks all for your rapid replies. I'll follow the link above to work out how to use it.

Take care.

Hi,

I bought a second hand Myford super 7 lathe recently and the item in the photo came with it. I have no idea what it is or what it would be used for. Presumably something for model engineering as the chap I bought the lathe from was into making model loco's.

Thanks guys. That's a great help. It seems that most of the clubs local (ish) to me focus mainly on Railway modelling, but presumably the boiler processes are the same as for TE's

Has anyone got a recommendation for a company to make a boiler for a 2" Traction Engine please. The drawings suggest that copper will be fine. It needs to have all the relevant paperwork with it.

Thanks