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Stub Mandrel08/10/2011 19:19:28
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Model loosely based on an engine at Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester:
 
The base is milled from an alloy billet. Flywheel is 4 1/2" for a sense of the size. I'm afraid the brickwork is a bit naff, in fact it's all a bit rough -  many of the parts were rejects from my table engine, and as there was so nearly a complete engine there I thought why not?. Here's the 'prototype':

Neil

Edited By Stub Mandrel on 08/10/2011 19:21:48

Jeff Dayman08/10/2011 21:29:39
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Looking very good Neil, nice job.
 
Got anything planned to make for it to drive?
 
JD
Stub Mandrel09/10/2011 21:21:12
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Thanks Jeff,
 
I've always got my eyes open for a nice generator.
 
Neil
Engine Builder09/10/2011 22:11:53
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Very nice engine you have there Neil, well done. Why does everyone always want to make a generator for their engine? Steam engines usualy drove machinery directly from the flywheel.
Stub Mandrel12/10/2011 21:32:26
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Hi E.B.
 
Perhaps because making a factory full of spinning and weaving machines is beyond us?
 
 
Neil
Ian S C13/10/2011 09:30:50
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Hi Neil, there is actually a nice little over type generator in vol 1, no., 3 ME (1898), plus a few others, dynamos, batteries, and anything electrical was popular among modelers. The one that I have that would be about the size you will build is based on a Cannings electro plating generator, sorry no pics, its a bit scruffy. Ian S C
Stub Mandrel13/10/2011 21:50:36
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You're enjoying your Volume 1, Ian!
 
I met two Cannings directors in a board room at their Birmingham HQ once (late 90s). I don't recall all the details but I remember the building was like a town hall with cast iron decorations, wooden panelling, paintings of the founders, marble tiles - all the trappings of Victorian industrial success. A few cabinets with modern product is scattered about. I think they've gone now.
 
Sixteen years in Brum and a fair few big names have gone -not just Rover , Cincinnati went with hardly anyone noticing.
 
Neil
Ian S C14/10/2011 05:18:34
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I believe that this is similar to one that was obtained in the 1880s for the Turbine at our museum, it was about three foot high, 100 V , 11Kw output, they came in many sizes, right from little ones about 6" high for battery charging, and up

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