Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1925
Date 30-Apr
Volume 52
Issue 1,253
Page 479
Category Reminiscences
Part 2
Title Some Reminiscences of a Model Engineer's Career
Author J.S.Adams
Notes A sequel to the story which appeared in November 20, 1924 issue. A bit of the writer's workshop, the tube plates, notebook sketches for the locomotive boiler, rivet making, the boiler mountings, 2-4-0 charcoal burning locomotive, proving pump, experimental reversing arrangement for oscillating cylinder, screw blank making tool, stocks and dies, a method of obtaining motion measurements, connecting and coupling rods, how the ladies helped, methods of lagging and cleading, experimental reversal for oscillating cylinder, the engine is begun, what the expert said, I start tool-making, rivet-making tool, loco regulator, screw and bolt making, how the cylinder bores were trued, the piston rings, a drilling machine is made, "Wringing" the bells, the original pump and its successor, the couplings - or, how I kept the piece, why I didn't become a paint agent, vertical fire tube boiler and horizontal steam engine