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Hi Nick, I've just finished turning the wheel castings for my next loco, in 1/2" scale they are 2&3/4" diameter and from Walsall Industries. They came with the solid back you have on yours, which I'd never encountered before. I used a carbide tipped tool and just took it steady when I thought I was close to breaking through. I noticed that as the cut became intermittent the sound changed. There were no problems, but I was a bit shocked when I realised how little allowance there was for thickness- I'd very nearly 'overshot the platform', as The Master used to say.

John.

Thanks gentlemen, so it's, 'Gee up, whoa back' then. I agree about the oversize boiler, it looks like a six foot bloke with size 3 shoes!

I will follow up the Dairymaid lead thank you, I don't know much about that engine.

I'm just dipping my toe in the 2&1/2" gauge waters at the moment, I'm trying to find a small engine with proper valve gear and a coal-fired boiler that will suit the projected light railway I've got room for in my new garden.

I've been reading The Chronicles of Boulton's Siding by Alfred Rosling Bennet- a cornucopia of small, old engines that one Isaac Boulton bought from the big companies, renovated, and hired out to other companies, and I'm all fired up about small, old engines!

Thanks again for all your invaluable help- you've saved me a wild goose chase!

John.

Fantastic! Thank you Dave, I'll have to have a ferret about in my old ME backnumbers!

John.

Can anyone please tell me what prototype this locomotive represents?

I'm very tempted to buy it, but I know I'd struggle to complete it unless there are plans available.

It's on the Station Road Steam home page right now, that's where I borrowed the photo from.

Sorry I can't post it as a hyperlink.

https://www.stationroadsteam.com/2-12-inch-gauge-2-2-2-locomotive-chassis-stock-code-9437/

Thank you,

John.

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Hi Viv, this forum, The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum-

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/modelsteam/

...is an excellent, well-moderated place for youngsters who are fascinated by steam models. I was a member for years and realised my own dream of becoming a model engineer with the help of one of it's members. There were many older children on there, the moderators were very assiduous in keeping them safe.

They used to have an annual Toy Steam Fair at Owston Ferry, if you are in Lincoln this would be quite close to you.

Good luck to your budding engineer, and tell him: I always wanted to be an engine driver...and now I am one!

John.

All I could think was: Mukkinese Battle Horn.

John.

I got my ML7 about ten years ago, it had no change wheels. I always meant to source them, but found I could cut all the (small) threads I needed with a tailstock die-holder and taps in the chuck. I use the lead screw hand wheel instead of the (non-existent) self-act, and find it quite therapeutic and 'hands-on' for what I am doing.

Of course, I'm not a 'proper' engineer, just somebody who loves being in my workshop.

John.

Posted by jacques maurel on 01/01/2021 05:47:51:

Happy new year and best machining wishes with center drills this year!

JM

Bonne Annee Jacques... You have a alarming number of centre drills!

John.

I bought one of these:

https://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Cutting-Tools/Lathe-Turning-Tools/8mm-Parting-Off-Tool-with-Parting-Blade

Sorry it won't paste as a hyperlink.

I use it in my four-way tool post on my ML7 and it is fantastic! For bigger jobs I use RDG's rear tool post, but for the smaller stuff I make, the Arc tool is absolutely unbeatable, and inexpensive.

Best wishes,

John.

I don't know if this is any help but, when I want small circles of glass to make, ie, spectacle glasses in miniature locomotives, I use watch glasses, available from jewellers' merchants. They are quite inexpensive.

John.

You were right Mike- it's 3/8th BSP!

John.

Good morning all, I have recently moved house and can't find my thread gauges- can anyone tell me what thread the drain plug is on my new ML7 tray (Deep Tray 00/024), just bought from Myford/RDG? I have emailed the question to them but got no response.

Thank you!

John.

Wow! Thank you gentlemen! Once again, the forum comes up trumps!

I'll pass this on to my friend, I'm sure he will be pleased at all this information!

John.

Greetings fellow forumites, I have a friend from the world of bookbinding who has the machine in the photographs- he believes it is an Ideal guillotine, made in Germany, and some few years old.

He wants to get the blade resharpened, it is 58cm long by 9cm deep, and presumably hardened.

He may have found somewhere in Manchester who will do this -he's waiting to find out- but in the interim, he would welcome any information on this tool that forum members could provide.

Thank you ,

John.

Have you been doing the Guardian crossword?! The tattoo/return to quarters thing cropped up as a clue a day or two ago; I didn't know that!

John.

The noted railway photographer Ivo Peters documented the end of the S & D, his work is well worth a look and there were lots of 9F's, as Andy has pointed out.

John.

What a splendid model that would make!

John.

Realistically Geoff, your fears are Baseless.

John.

I don't know if this is any help, but I found it very encouraging and in fact it's the first thread I ever saved to favourites from this forum:

**LINK**

Some bloke who calls himself Stub Mandrel...

John.