How long is a piece of string

I do and I have seen the finished engines, he used to make a nice sum selling them on e-bay. Once set up for it with jigs etc they don't take that long especially if you do half a dozen at a time.

That's the key to mass production, as opposed to our normal ME route of bespoke work.

Apparently some of the post WW2 turret lathe journeymen (Herbert operators etc) could crank out amazing amounts of stuff within hours of being given a complicated task

Good afternoon Michael,

To give an estimate of the time required to build a Springbok is almost an impossibility, there are too many factors that will require considering before any sort of clear picture; a fellow member of one of the clubs I belong to has been on one since the early seventies whereas another member has the ability to turn out first class stuff in next to no time including building a 6" scale traction engine in twenty three months! The quickest I've ever turned out a locomotive was one of Don Young's 4F and that took sixteen months. I think it was old LBSC who said on average it would take something in the order of 2500 hours for the average worker, mind you he always gave instructions for his "two hour" hand pump, it takes me that amount of time to find the materials.

An old departed friend always said you don't need patience, you need grit, grit to hang in there.

Crack on Michael and it'll be in steam all the sooner. the most difficult thing is getting started.

Regards,

Bob

Scrooge McDuck gave the answer in a cartoon where he was asked that same question to keep his fortune, the correct answer is "equidistant from the centre to both ends"

String decimalisation ISO units:

10 stringettes to a string. 10 strings to a coil. 10 coils to a hank, 10 hanks to a skein, 10 skeins to a ball...

In other units .. 1 string to a bow, 2 strings for a reserve, 4 strings to a violin, 6 strings to a guitar. For larger multiples sitar, harp, piano. In these units the answer is simple.. The length of a pice of string... the tension mounts...is enough for a wind-up..

Is this thread winding You up!

Not me but that question will always generate response