Simon Collier | 13/10/2014 10:23:34 |
![]() 525 forum posts 65 photos | I was unloading my Simplex at the club yesterday when an old chap came into the grounds and wanted to give away some Simplex castings, etc., as he was downsizing and had sold his house. He wanted nothing for them but did not want to throw them out, as he had been advised to do. Naturally I was pleased to take them off his hands, and I loaded a lot of stuff into my car. Only at the end of the day when I got home did I really look at it all: castings for cylinders, steam chests, covers, valve blanks, buffers in cast iron; saddle and pump in bronze. There were frames, cut out with holes drilled, boiler materials including tube, and brass sides, spectacle plate, cab roof, bunker back, tank frames, tops and sides, and wheels. Only the latter had been machined. Also there are various sheets of brass and copper of various thicknesses. Amazing. Oh, I forgot the plans and book that came with it all. |
john kennedy 1 | 13/10/2014 11:18:54 |
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Neil Wyatt | 13/10/2014 19:38:36 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | Time to convert your Simplex into a Fairlie Complex then! Neil |
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