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2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 830 Road Locomotive 70 Garrett 4CD Tractor in 6 inch scale Chris Gunn Discovers how to make wicks for the lubricators. Smokebox door with 'G', cr... more
Discovers how to make wicks for the lubricators. Smokebox door with 'G', crankshaft oiler, modified lubricators, miniature pallets, tender floor
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 833 General If you don't want to miss an issue just ask!
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 834 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Write something for your club magazine, grandchildren
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 834 Club News MES Northern Ireland
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Music to turn to in the workshop
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Stockholes Farm MR The flooded tunnel, drying out, first train through (Photos courtesy of Bar... more
The flooded tunnel, drying out, first train through (Photos courtesy of Barbara Smith)
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Teeside SGR
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News High Wycombe MEC
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Sheffield DSMEE
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Worthing DSME
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Welling DMES
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News MEE Auckland
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Gauge 3 Society P2 Earl Marischal at Thurnby GTG (Photo courtesy of Editor, Ashley Wattam)
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Bournemouth DSME
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 835 Club News Nottingham SMEE Llandudno signal gantry in July 2019
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News City of Oxford SME
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News Bradford MES
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News Bristol SMEE New Year's Day (Photo courtesy of Editor, Richard Lunn)
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News Plymouth MS
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Three holes on a pitch circle
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News Leeds SMEE
2020 05-Jun 224 4,640 836 Club News And finally The self employed have staff meetings (talk to themselves)
2020 22-May 224 4,639 727 On the cover à Pouring molten metal into the sprue in the home foundry (photo Gerald Martyn)
2020 22-May 224 4,639 732 Smoke Rings Lies, More Lies and Statistics
2020 22-May 224 4,639 732 Smoke Rings Colonel Tom Hornby Hobbies, GB Railfreight locomotive 66731, NHS
2020 22-May 224 4,639 732 Smoke Rings Brief Lives (Michael Symes, death of)
2020 22-May 224 4,639 732 Smoke Rings Foundry near Chelmsford
2020 22-May 224 4,639 732 Smoke Rings IMLEC
2020 22-May 224 4,639 733 Workshop 4 Mastering Non-Ferrous Metal Casting Gerald Martyn Has a go at making his own non-ferrous castings. Pouring molten metal, book... more
Has a go at making his own non-ferrous castings. Pouring molten metal, books list, suppliers list
2020 22-May 224 4,639 736 General Next Issue Projects; Murdoch Engine; Milestones; GWR Panier Tank; Watt Governor; Night... more
Projects; Murdoch Engine; Milestones; GWR Panier Tank; Watt Governor; Night Owl
2020 22-May 224 4,639 737 Smoke Rings The Midlands Garden Rail Show 2020 John Arrowsmith Attends what may have been (because of the coronavirus lockdown) the last e... more
Attends what may have been (because of the coronavirus lockdown) the last exhibition of the year. City of Truro on the G1 MRA layout, steam generator, 1903 NER Autocar, Lough MPD display, Mogul, Hampton End railway, Gauge 1 Vintage Tinplate trains, armoured Simplex on the G Scale layout Hambledon Valley Railway engine shed, National 2 1/2 inch Gauge Association, 2 1/2"g.American S160 by Steve Eaton, Bromsgrove SME, four facet drill grinding jig on Coventry MES stand, Severn Mendip, Hunslet type locomotive on Whiteleaf Light Railway, Ballgornal Junction station, 0-6-0 Diesel on the 16mm layout, a Mallet style locomotive at Roche Junction
2020 22-May 224 4,639 741 Stationary Engine 19 Building the Model Engineer Beam Engine David Haythornthwaite Describes how to build this engine in 1 inch scale from available castings.... more
Describes how to build this engine in 1 inch scale from available castings. Valve links and crosshead, eccentric rod, the cylinder oiler (or whistle?)
2020 22-May 224 4,639 743 General If you don't want to miss an issue just ask!
2020 22-May 224 4,639 744 Nautical Syoksy Class Motor Torpedo Boat Michael Nicholson Creates a model of a Finnish torpedo boat. Introduction, the wheel house, t... more
Creates a model of a Finnish torpedo boat. Introduction, the wheel house, the gun, the mines and depth charges, interior, superstructure, hull construction and twin propellors (propellers?), original construction and the crew, slipway
2020 22-May 224 4,639 748 Historic 8 The Stationary Steam Engine Ron Fitzgerald Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine.... more
Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. The Steam Engine becomes a Heat Engine, the Glasgow University Newcomen engine model, Rodney Law's reconstruction of Watt's first model of the separate condenser, re-drawing by Richard Hills of Watt's retrospective sketch of the anatomist's syringe steam cylinder, Glasgow Green, surviving second separate condenser and air pump model, Rodney Law's drawing of the second separate condenser and air pump model, references
2020 22-May 224 4,639 752 Locomotive Wahya. A 5 inch American Type Locomotive Luker Builds an American 4-4-0. Introduction, the frames
2020 22-May 224 4,639 757 Workshop 2 A Small Bearing Puller Graham Astbury Of Bradford MES makes a bearing puller for a very restricted space. Links, ... more
Of Bradford MES makes a bearing puller for a very restricted space. Links, screw, handle top, handle, assembly, final note
2020 22-May 224 4,639 759 Portable Engine Showcase. A Portable Steam Plant (Agricultural Engine) A 2 inch scale 'Marshall' working model used to drive farming equipment, ho... more
A 2 inch scale 'Marshall' working model used to drive farming equipment, hoists and bailers etc in the 1800s and towed into the required working area. Built by Jim Haslam in 1995
2020 22-May 224 4,639 760 Postbag Ross Yoke Engine Patrick Carnegy
2020 22-May 224 4,639 760 Postbag Don Ashton Dave Owen CME, Llangollen Railway
2020 22-May 224 4,639 760 Postbag Turbines Noel Shelley
2020 22-May 224 4,639 760 Postbag Turbines John Bauer
2020 22-May 224 4,639 761 Railway Chicken Fun Jonathan Edney Discovers that chickens and garden railways do not mix. Success and failure... more
Discovers that chickens and garden railways do not mix. Success and failure, celebratory cake, the culprits, the track, remediation, ready to run, reference
2020 22-May 224 4,639 764 Steam 2 The Watt Governor Mitch Barnes Gives a short potted history of the 'Watt' Governor which bursts a few myth... more
Gives a short potted history of the 'Watt' Governor which bursts a few myths before outlining how it works. Boulton, Watt and Co. Bellcrank engines c1806, 1825 engine by Fenton Murray and Wood, James Kay of Bury, Science Museum, Lady Stephanie, Easton and Amos engine at Kew
2020 22-May 224 4,639 766 Steam A Regulator Controlled Lubricator Don Thorpe Designs an unconventional method of pressurised lubrication. In conclusion
2020 22-May 224 4,639 768 Stationary Engine 8 The Middleton Double Sided Beam Engine Rodney Oldfield Constructs another of Bob Middleton's stationary engines. Flywheel, eccentr... more
Constructs another of Bob Middleton's stationary engines. Flywheel, eccentric straps, eccentric sheaves
2020 22-May 224 4,639 771 Locomotive 7 Wenford. A 7 1/4 Inch Gauge 2-4-0 Beattie Well Tank Hotspur Catches up on the description of his Beattie well tank. Cylinder drain cock... more
Catches up on the description of his Beattie well tank. Cylinder drain cock operating mechanism
2020 22-May 224 4,639 774 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Coronavirus - the situation is changing, (written 26th March), Bolide, tran... more
Coronavirus - the situation is changing, (written 26th March), Bolide, transmitter aerial, Henley Solon, 'Slim Jim' aerial
2020 22-May 224 4,639 774 Club News Pietermaritzburg MES (SA)
2020 22-May 224 4,639 774 Club Chat Durban SME (SA)