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21 April 2010 at 19:25 #50986
Paul Snellings
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Ladies/Gents, Does anyone know where I can get hold of some drawings for a 5″ Rocket? I’m currently learning how to master the art of lathe working etc and as one of my favourite engines from school days I thought I’d give it a go!! I’ve search to good old world wide web but without much success, any ideas?

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Paul
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21 April 2010 at 19:25 #5044
Paul Snellings
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21 April 2010 at 23:15 #50994
Gone Away
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Bit ambiguous here maybe? Do you mean the train or the interplanetary vehicle?

Assuming you mean the train, I’ve never seen detailed plans for a working model (and I looked) but Camden has an interesting sounding book called:

“The Engineering and History of Rocket”

“with most of the information culled from a recent part-by-part survey“

which might be of some help.
22 April 2010 at 10:43 #51000
Chris
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On the front cover of ME Vol202 No4350 there was a picture of a 5″ Rocket which was on display at the Model Engineer exhibition at Ascot. The picture was taken by one Roger Bunce.

Perhaps our editor has more details.

Early on in the Northumbrian series it was mentioned that someone was scaling it up to 5″. I wonder if that project has developed?

Chris.
22 April 2010 at 11:19 #51002
Weary
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That might have been an OS product as they make a kit for Rocket.

Link here.

Home page here.

This model is really lovely but notoriously light on its feet, here is a link to further info and a video of Rocket model built by a very skilled modeller in Australia.

I vaguely recall that there was a short construction series in Model Engineer covering construction of the OS kit, so an index search may turn up something of interest to you.

Edited By Weary on 22/04/2010 11:24:22
22 April 2010 at 13:27 #51005
JasonB
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If you do decide to scale something up then Canterbury Lamb would be a good design to base it on.

Bit of yellow paint and no one will know

Jason
22 April 2010 at 16:52 #51009
Gary Wooding
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Sorry if this is a duplicate posting but the first attempt didn’t appear to work.

Starting in issue 285 of volume 84 (that’s year 1941), LBSC started a series on building a 3.5″ Rocket lookalike that he called Rainhill.
22 April 2010 at 17:08 #51010
Chris
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Come on Jason. That would be like me mistaking your TE for a steam waggon. .

Chris.
1 May 2010 at 22:06 #51319
Sub Mandrel
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There was a beautiful solid silver model of Rocket built by (?)Ian Bradbury that I#ve seen in ME back issues. I think Mike Chrisp built the OS rocket and serialised his experiences. There’s also the rather cruder Hornby live steam version.

So no reasons why 5″ one shouldn’t suceed.

Neil
2 May 2010 at 10:13 #51329
Geoff Sheppard
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The Silver Rocket was built by Dr. John Bradbury Winter for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It is allowed out for exhibition on VERY special occasions. Mike Chrisp puts his OS Rocket on display from time to time. A nice model it is, too.

Geoff
2 May 2010 at 19:50 #51349
Sub Mandrel
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Thanks Geoff,

I had a feeling Ian Bradbury was wrong .

Neil
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