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Please could someone help by giving me advise on soldering the platework on my 2.5” gauge Stirling Single. Do I use soft solder? What technique is best please. I bought all of laser cut parts from Model Engineers Laser and they are super.
many thanks

Keith Shephard

Good morning,

I am just getting to grips with an inherited half built Maisie. I would like to get a copy of the original build notes in volumes 72 to 76 of the ME magazine. Can anyone help please? All costs covered.

thanks and best regards. Keith

Thanks very much for your responses. So Cowells here I come.

best regards. Keith

Thanks very much for your responses. So Cowells here I come.

best regards. Keith

Hi all,

can anyone advise which quick change tooling would be suitable for my Cowells lathe?

Much appreciated

Keith

Good morning,

I have a Cowells 90ME lathe and also a mill from the same manufacturer. Does anyone have any experience in fitting a DRO to either of these machines?

best regards

Keith

Thanks for all of your help. I have loaded 5 images of the poor engine and tender and the the frames are indeed 33 inches long. If anyone can help confirm if it is a GWR Class 7 or not! I would be very grateful. Castings have been used in the construction and the person who gave it to me referred to it as a Gooch engine.

your help is must appreciated.

Keith

Thanks Bill for your help. I will post some images and dimensions over ther weekend. Keith

Thanks very much for your responses. Would anyone be able to give details of the supplier of drawings and castings before the more recent Polly offering of the Pete Rich designs as for sure my sad incomplete loco must be many decades old. Best regards Keith

Good morning,

I have just been given an incomplete GWR Class 7 5” gauge loco. It is in very poor condition but I thought it worth having a go at completing it. I hope someone might be able to point me in the right direction for drawings and castings? Also has anyone such a model in the course of construction or finished?

as always your help is much appreciated.

Keith Shephard. Nr BATH

Hi I have just got around to start the restoration of my Lorch AB of c1908. Could anyone suggest please where I could get the bed ground without costing the proverbial arm and a leg.

Appreciate any ideas please.

best regards Keith

A question for the distinguished and very knowledgable members of this forum.

If you had a choice to make would you chose for precision model engineering work a Schaublim 102VM or a Hardinge (HLV I believe or similar) ?

Thanks and best regards. Keith

hi Everyone. I have just purchased a 105VM lathe and 13 mill in a bereavement sales. I am looking for someone to service and check them over. Any ideas please? Best regards Keith

Thanks for all of your help and ideas, much appreciated Keith

Hi I have just bought a c1912 Cataract lathe, which according to the oracle Lathes.co.uk were a precision American lathe. It has lost its original cross slide and I wondered if there are any others surviving in the UK? Thanks Keith

Alan, thanks very much for your suggestion. Best regards Keith

Thanks very much for all of your very helpful replies. I now know in which direction to go.

Best regards Keith

Hi I have just bought my first engine - a Polly 2 and will be going to the local club track with my grandson. Could anyone advise me please of good quality gloves for eight year old hands please? Thanks very much Keith