Member postings for John Besley

Thanks Jason - like the look of the simple Aveling & Porter lamps with out the fancy top.

OK when your ready

Trouble is unless someone thinks outside of the box progress is nil , imagine what we might have had if this had worked - anyone remember the ACE2000 (American Coal Enterprise) plans back in the 1980's they even went as far as modifying Ross Rowland's C&O 4-8-4 to get some data together

Hello Jason

Do you know which magazines numbers these are in.

Mike H

I have looked at the ones available for Mamod engines, how ever these are in fact from the roadsters and don't look right being more of a carriage lamp as used on stage coaches and the earliest cars.

Can someone help me I am looking for a drawing or general information on a basic traction engine lamp for a rebuild of a Wilesco / Mamod I am working on with a view to creating a lost wax brass casting.

Still slowly working on my traction engine project, where can I obtain small size pipe fittings and tube who is the best suppler to use and what size would have been used on Little Jen.

Many thanks for any help forthcoming.

Edited By John Besley on 01/11/2013 08:51:19

"If you are looking for something more realistic than Little Ben you may instead want to take a look at the 3/4" scale Modular published in ME during 1981 and 1982 - alternate Issues from 3651 to 3677

Clive"

I was looking for something simple to build as a start off point, while I have been making parts and pattrens for 16mm & 7/8th garden railways for some 18 / 20 years I dont have a milling machine, relying on a small Inca lathe from Axminster Tools and a Pillar drill, I have modifed Mamods in the past and built Roundhouse Loco kits of a "Lady Anne"

With a tracton engine being self contained (I dont need a garden railway to run it) I wanted to build something that I could utilise a certain number of off the shelf parts like Mamod wheels as I have plenty spare. does Modular fit this criteria?

I have tried sending an email to the address as shown in the Little Ben article with it bouncing back

[email protected] does anyone out there have a copy of the plans?

Ok got it thanks Jason

Hello

does anyone know why the postings on this topic are running right across the page behind the side bar advert on this page - can this be changed or the sidebar turned off as it cuts across the post making it impossable to read the thread.

Ok dont forget that Tornado had to have special dispensation when they built her as under current H&S rules she should have had an air conditioned cab!!

The Dodwells Big Boy went to a Garden centre in Bournmouth? unfortunatly the council turned down the planning so the whole lot was sold finaly shipped out to Australia, I think John Southern kept one of the D&RW K37's as at one time he had 2 of them, the sight and sound of these running on 7.1/4" was out of this world, way back in the early 70's before the trees grew up to high you lost all sense of direrction on the line... brillant, later on it got more commercilised and lost the magic, happy days, the whole site is now a holiday site i belive havent looked in for years

Hello Jason

Many thanks for the info I have now found a number of issues and they should be with me shortly, BTW do you know who built Litte Jen as shown in a prevoius post, do you or anyone have any contatc details?, I belive Bruce Robertson who wrote the articles had a web site for this, anyone know what the address was and where the drawings can be sourced from?

Hello Jason can you double check the numbers for me please;-

4142, 4146, 4146, 4150, 4152, 4154, 5156, 4148, 4175 and 4184

Is 4146 correct or should there be another one between 4146 & 4148 what about 4144 does this have Little Ben in it|?

Currently looking for articles on building Little Ben started in ME 4142

Almost a year on and I am back on this thread, the Little Ben articles - how many issues did this run to and what are the copy numbers so I can locate of ebay or elsewhere? starting with ME 4142

I had thought of that since the last post as the whistle is "huge" this could be saved for some other project - any idea what the thread size is that mamod use?

Ok that interetsing, will have to investigate further, wondering about a new boiler but will see what it looks like when I strip the engine down in a week or two.

I have started to rebuild / modify a second hand TE1A Mamod Traction Engine, there are a couple of questions I hope someone can help with.

1. What is the thread size for the water level drain plug as this needs the thread cleaning

2. Are the boilers silversoldered - I would hope so just wanted to check as I want to add a turret for a presser gauge