Member postings for OldMetaller

Hi Graham, I'll follow this thread with interest as I bought one of these hacksaws a while back, no motor but everything else is there. Can you tell us what motor you bought and where from, please? I'm looking forward to getting mine working as I'm using a Rage chop saw at the moment for cutting slices of round and angle mild steel and it scares me witless, as well as pouring hot swarf on to my head!

Regards,

John.

Hi Ryan, I love the way you've done the wheels, I'm still at the stage of having four slices of mild steel, waiting for me to make the drawbar for the 2MT mandrel I intend to use for turning the wheels to profile. I think I may fabricate the boss and balance weight like you have done. The red looks great too!

I too have used some metric threading...my fabricated pump stay is tapped 12mm for the pump body.

'Tich' is said as though it is spelled with an extra 't'- 'Titch', the 'ch' being like the beginning of 'church'. You sometimes see it spelled with the extra 't' on ebay or even in Model Engineer!

Good luck, and keep up the good work!

Regards,

John G.

Hi Ryan, I'm really pleased to see this thread as I have just started a small-boilered Tich and intend to fabricate most of the parts! This will be my first 'big' locomotive, I've only worked in 16mm before. It looks like you've got off to a flying start and I shall be following your build closely! I'm at about the same stage as you, except that instead of making the hornblocks, I'm part way through making the wheels from round mild steel bar. Good luck with the build!

Regards,

John.

Hi Cyril, I've only just seen this...what an excellent book, and displayed in a very readable format!

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

John.

Only just seen this thread- fantastic! Thanks, Stub Mandrel...just got to pluck up the courage to start my own now!

Regards,

John.

Hi Mike, don't know if it's any help, but I needed a tray for my ML7 and a mate told me he'd seen some Land Rover drip trays stencilled '5 SQN' in our local army surplus shop, Anchor Supplies in Ripley and Nottingham. I went and looked at them, 4' X 2' X 1/8th" steel, only £9.50! Ka-ching, thank you sir!

Regards,

John.

Thanks David, all is well now!

Regards,

John.

Hi David, I'm a fairly new subscriber to ME, and I can't yet access the archive although I've read all the threads about doing this and (I think) entered all my details correctly. I would be grateful if you could have a look at it for me.

Thanks,

John.