Building the Minnie Traction Engine.

Although I have some lathe experience. I have not tried to tackle anything as big as this

I have the necessary castings, so any thought, tips etc will be very much apreciated

The book of the build is worth getting a copy of and check out some of the later thinking for the stays and horn plate attachment.

Mike

L C Mason wrote a book on the Minnie, W J Hughes wrote on the Allchin, if you can get hold of either they would be a great help, but might be hard to find at a reasonable price. Alternatively, the Minnie was serialised in detail in ME in the early '70's IIRC. The Allchin was serialised twice.

Edited By Clive Brown 1 on 03/09/2017 11:08:06

Mike

Could you be more specific, or tell me where to find the information you mentioned please.

A pal of mine is just starting a Minnie and would be interested in anything new that is not on the drawings or in the book.

Cheers

Phil

There is a build thread by pgk pgk on this forum **LINK**

There is another build on MEM but it suffers from the FB picture loss but a link was supplied for Firefox users on the same forum  **LINK**

Edited By Dennis D on 03/09/2017 12:26:46

Edited By Dennis D on 03/09/2017 12:30:45

A 3D CAD model and photos of the 1" Minnie can be downloaded from GrabCad

**LINK**

There's a copy of L C Masons book on the Home Workshop site for £10:-

**LINK**

scroll down to Wednesday 17th Aug.

Read you PMs before buying a book

Cheers Mike

I will pass that info on.

Phil

I have been a bit busy the past few days, BUT WOW what a set of very kind responses. I have now joined GrabCad, and started to look a the files,

Thank you all so much faorv helping me.

Best wishes

Malcolm