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1/20th Scale Traction Engine

This topic has 83 replies, 19 voices, and was last updated 16 October 2021 at 13:52 by Roger Best.

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23 February 2021 at 14:25 #529555
Nigel (egi)
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Posted by Roger Best on 22/02/2021 21:40:52:

great progress.

I would recess the top of the firebox. Is there boiler under it at that point?

The boiler goes halfway into the firebox. I will make the crank and try lifting it. Good idea with the recess though as even 1mm might help, thanks, Nigel
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25 February 2021 at 19:34 #530128
Nigel (egi)
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Thought it might be worth showing the bracket I made to support the head of the rivet inside the tender whilst I rivetted it
27 February 2021 at 10:23 #530487
Nigel (egi)
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I made the crankshaft bearing blocks up out of a sandwich of parts. I then silver soldered these together using the Cookson Gold silver solder paste. The paste includes flux and silver solder all in one, it's easy to apply and you can compress it to a thin layer. When you heat it you see a flash of liquid silver and it's there.

At first I thought this paste was expensive, but you really don't need much at all and so the small tube goes a very long way.
3 March 2021 at 09:49 #531369
Nigel (egi)
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I decided to bolt the bulkhead into the tender so that I could get access to the floor on this tiny model.

This meant that I needed to turn rivets into bolts. This was actually quite easy using a small homemade chuck.

I can then apply a torque to the rivet and thread a 1/16th inch bolt as 10BA
7 October 2021 at 20:51 #566014
Roger Best
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Just noticed this thread in my "favourites".

Looks like I saved the wrong page. Can anyone point me to the blog??

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8 October 2021 at 06:35 #566051
Jon Lawes
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Probably this one, although I can't be sure. It's certainly a very skilled Nigel.

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8 October 2021 at 18:27 #566137
Michael Gilligan
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Posted by Jon Lawes on 08/10/2021 06:35:58:

Probably this one, although I can't be sure. It's certainly a very skilled Nigel.

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Methinks that egi probably stands for editor glue it

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Edit: __ Removed the parentheses, to kill the wretched smiley things

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 08/10/2021 18:30:30
16 October 2021 at 13:30 #567038
Roger Best
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Thanks guys.

I can follow Nigel's wonderful work now.

I hope he wasn't too put off by this forum.

The format of the page isn't what I remember so it could be something going on there.

Fortunately there was a video hosted by YouTube and that lead me to a number of newer videos.

Nigel Taylor's YouTube home page

(edited after finding new posts on the blog site)

Edited By Roger Best on 16/10/2021 13:57:08
16 October 2021 at 13:52 #567041
Roger Best
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Correction:

I found some newer posts on the blog site:

glue-it.com/tag/traction-engine
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