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Hmm, doesn't necessarily need to be a complete circle, it could be a short arc?

There are a few industrial sewing machine motors on ebay, if you could rig the foot pedal up with something a little more controlable you would get variable speed as well.

Julian

I seem to recall paul gammon only supplies through polly models now.

Nobody has mentioned the dynamo / generator yet, think of the world without electricity......

You don't need to worry too much on which cylinder you get, calor dealers will exchange any cylinder for any other, ie any of these can be swapped .

http://www.calor.co.uk/customer-services/faqs/general-cylinder-queries/cylinder-exchange-policy/

Might be worth asking at the local household recycling centre, there's often a pile there or at least there is at mine.

Here's mine, having built it my wife looked at it for a few weeks and then said " it sort of reminds me of a signal box" , cant imagine how it ended up looking like that

and inside

and

Ancient Brown and Shrpe horizontal mill has now gone to a new home, other machines are a Dore Westbury Mill, Boxford AUD and a Qualters and Smith hacksaw.

ok chaps, what's gone wrong with my photos?

Here's mine, having built it my wife looked at it for a few weeks and then said " it sort of reminds me of a signal box" , cant imagine how it ended up looking like that

[IMG]http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q474/durhambuilder/P1030396.jpg[/IMG]

and inside

[IMG]http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q474/durhambuilder/P1030394.jpg[/IMG]

and

[IMG]http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q474/durhambuilder/P1030395.jpg[/IMG]

Ancient Brown and Shrpe horizontal mill has now gone to a new home, other machines are a Dore Westbury Mill, Boxford AUD and a Qualters and Smith hacksaw.

Edited By Durhambuilder on 02/10/2012 18:38:28

I think the problem was all the articles were titled 'simple 040 locomotive' rather than railmotor, I fell into the same trap many years ago......

I used a Sievert 3526 cyclone burner which was more than adequate for by 4.75" dia x 18" long AJAX boiler. I did keep a second full gas cylinder nearby, the last thing you want is to run out of gas half way through a heat up

Cheers

Julian

You'll get away with a lot less heating if you can keep the heat contained. Fire bricks are commonly quoted, I did mine with a pumice chimney liner and a couple of offcuts of vermiculite board, just arrange the bits to suit, see my photo album.

Cheers

Edited By Durhambuilder on 04/05/2012 20:56:16

You'll get away with a lot less heating if you can keep the heat contained. Fire bricks are commonly quoted, I did mine with a pumice chimney liner and a couple of offcuts of vermiculite board, just arrange the bits to suit, see my photo album.

Cheers