Member postings for Rabbiteer

How much time?

it is now September and I pay by direct debits, which are being collected, for both paper and electronic issues and while my paper issues of ME and MEW have been arriving I still cannot access the electronic versions beyond ME 4695 and MEW August 22.

Many thanks to you both.

for the thread I agree the side tanks cab and bunker are complex. They proved to be a showstopper which is why we started with them. If one considers how much time and concentration it would take with a saw and files you will understand why when I appeared with a CNC mill my half hearted offer was grabbed.

Dennis spent several years developing CAD drawings of the platework that are copies of Don Young's paper version but as I said above developed in CAD then CNCed in plastic to fit together. They are available for anybody wanting to use them.

Even using a small CNC mill and 1 mm and 2mm cutters, to minimise waste, it took quite a long time to gnaw through 9kg of 1.5mm brass.

thanks

Robin

Is there anybody out there who has or is building this model?

I have never had anything to do with loco building so I foolishly offered to help a friend by cutting parts on my small CNC mill. He bought the plans and most of the parts needed from Don Young in the 1970's and has had them 'pending'. Over time he has drawn all the brass sheet on a CAD program correcting errors so I cut all that in clear plastic, and after quite a few corrections, in brass.

Now we have embarked on the steel, also redrawn in CAD. After some exasperation I bought a new set of plans from Reeves. There are quite a few differences between the two sets and just on the frames he has found errors on both.

I have an access problem and have emailed [email protected] after no small amount of time spent looking for an answer.

I think it worth pointing out that - now Dec 8th - on the Pocketmags page if you

Click the link [email protected]
You get
Oops....
We couldn't find that page
I'm sorry, we couldn't find that page on our site. Most likely, the page has been moved.

Also [email protected] returns the mail as undeliverable

Back in the 60's we put up a 'polythene tent' in an old very drafty 20ft x 12ft wooden shed to varnish a boat in a dust free space. I was very surprised that the inside was so warm with minimal heat simply by excluding the drafts.

My workshop, over 30 years old now, is a wooden shed which I insulated with 50mm rockwool cavity insulation batts between the framing- walls, ceiling and floor. I also used a large sheet of polythene - well it came on a roll - which I stapled up on the roof and ran down the walls to the floor to make an airtight tent and vapour barrier before covering roof and walls with plywood. There are cutouts for windows and door. It has a raised wood floor which has a polythene damp proof membrane under the insulation. It requires very little heat - oil filled radiator -to keep it dry in winter and none in the summer. The heater is on the off peak, with a thermostat set at 7.5C plus an overide switch for me in the day. Yes, I occasionally forget to turn it off!

I am tempted to add a dehumidifyer. I have one for our campervan which has a drainage pipe that we run outside so never need to empty the water resevoir. But I see no need as there would be very little saving on electricity consumption

I do cheat a bit as the shed is split into 2 sections so the outside door opens into the first section which acts as a lobby with an inside door, which is more or less airtight, to my 10ft square workshop section. I am at present helping a friend to duplicate my setup but he has no lobby space so we are fitting a door fame inside the outer door just deep enough to fit a cheap, sadly inward opening, interior door to obtain the air tight fit