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Locomotive Transport

I have followed Bazyl's formula. The wooden bars can be positioned to :-

1/ clamp the loco down to the rails for transport, or

2/ lift the loco off the tracks for running in free air.

I have a length of 20mm all thread which bolts between the two ends. This has a couple of nuts either side of the C of G (which changes as to wether the loco is dry or filled with water). A block and tackle is used to lift the loco and frame off the bench and onto the garden trolley.

thanks Bazyl

Bob

How about a scaffold crane- £100 from screwfix.

I think the welding will be a problem. If you weld away from the floor, a cement screed would accept weld splatter etc, but its COLD. For me, thick plywood gives a kind working floor, allows you to roll heavy machines over it, is insulating but you have to respect wood and welding or accept that you will get a few burn marks on it.

My small workshop is 4" concrete with a carpet over it. Has weld burns on it, spilt epoxy, solder and all sorts. When it is totally worn out, I will get another second hand carpet. I do have an automatic powder fire extinguisher and smoke alarm in there and no dramas in the last 15 years of use - but the gremlins do pinch small nuts and bolts.

Bob

This was a boiler project I started the '60s made from 316 ss for a 5" Firefly. Backhead, throat-plate and boiler barrel were TIG welded by a coded welder and all the rest was silver soldered with easyflo and Tenacity 5 flux. Removing the flux once over heated was a real pain. The project was abandoned as there was no way it would be accepted back in 1968 as it was in Stainless Steel.

Bob

Interesting, look at the post "Mini-Lathe casting error" The album for 'Modeng2000' has no pictures in it as well.

Bob

Perhaps the code should be extended to "Do not open doors on windy days", Vehicle construction act :- perhaps "All cars after 2024 to have flashing lights fitted to them", Bicycles to have frontal airbags, the list could go on.

In the end, cars are too comfortable and some drivers do not pay attention to the world about them. Some cyclists storm around town without due care.

Its time to go back out to the shed.

Bob

Sounds like a good tool for rounding the ends off on small Ba threads once a bolt has been cut to length.

Pen nibs are split with a thin diamond impregnated disc something like this. Mount the disc onto a cheap plotter table with hub etc and let it spin away all night ?

here in France, we have LINKY "smart meters". You access the data by your "smart" phone, but you can only see historic data so as far as I can see, they are of little practical use to the user. To see actual live usage, you have to be at the meter and as our is by the front gate, it aint going to happen. I can't find any reference to a remote reading device however there are some user accessible contacts that could be used to see the consumed energy pulses.

I keep looking for an Arduino app that might do this.

Bob

Did you quench in cold water (wintertime) to clean off the flux? Subsequent ones may not have cracked as the water had been warmed up by that time ??

That Gabro guillotine looks like an idea candidate for making lathe tool packing.

My first few runs with my SPEEDY show that the reversing lever is so close to the front of the cab as to make it impossible to get hold of it when in the forward position and you have 'driving' gloves on. It is also sandwiched between the backhead of the boiler and cabin side. The drawings say the centre line of the reversing stand is 5 3/4" from the back end of the frames. 4 3/4" gives room to actuate the reversing lever without scalding yourself BUT, at that dimension, it partially blocks the doorway for those that try to copy the full size Speedy.

Bob

If its sewing m/c parts mainly, you will be needing some peculiar thread pitches, some metric, some imperial and some (like Ba not simple multiples). Do you need a lathe as big as a Boxford etc, and just a small precision lathe. Gearbox lathes can by use of additional gears cut just about any thread form different from the standard gearbox set. Again, do you want an imperial or metric lathe.

From the net, I found that :

Singer used fraction of inch and normal TPI pitches, Nähnorm 100 also, Practical Machinist indicated that most machines used imperial measurements (But was that for older machines ??).

If you have decided on Myford or Boxford, then there is only one choice. BOXFORD with a gearbox - Ha Ha, I am biased though.

As used on milling cutters etc - CROCELL but I don't expect the OP could be bothered with this.

Bob

I have made a mold of a 14" high garden cherubim. I used 3 coats of silicone molding rubber and then a a backing cold of re-inforced plaster of Paris (in sections). The silicone is not rigid enough to support the Devcon or other product on its own as the silicone mold is probably only 3/16" thick or so.

Bob

Don't buy the second child a silver egg cup, spoon or serviette ring, buy a DRO scale !

Yes, sort of all right but the LED lamp isn't very powerful and the switch on mine is very crude and I have wired a replacement slide switch in place of it. The lenses are plastic and so far after 6 years, are still clear and scratch free. Keep in the box when not in use and make a special place to store the box in. If you want them for watch repairs type of work, they aren't powerful enough.

Bob

Circlip - I had to replace my HDD on a HUMAX. It would loose all recordings every now and again. Re-format didn't work, power on / off didn't work.

replaced it with :-

Seagate 2TB Pipeline HD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000VM003)

I couldn't find a 1TB drive, but a 2TB seems to work fine.

Make sure it is a "Pipeline HDD.

Bob

JA Why put the brakes on all 6 wheels when the driving trolley has sufficient brakes ?