Bassett Lowke 1.5″ Burrell Plans Required

[colin hawesParticipant @colinhawes85982]

There is a photo of one in my album being built without castings and with silver soldered boiler. Colin

[Michael FlorenzParticipant @michaelflorenz32838]

Good Day, my name is Michael and i am from western germany. I bought a 1.5 scale traction engine from burrell which is finished 50 %. i am looking for drawings to finish it. can anyone help me ? pdf is fine , i can pay upfront.

thank you, Michael

[Alan Wilkinson 1Participant @alanwilkinson1]

Hi I realise these post are a bit old but I have only just seen them , I am building a 11/2 Burell Bassett lowke from bar stock I couldnt get any castings, I have all the drawings, Scaned them down to a A4 size for each bit, so quite a lot. Some of the drawings are wrong so if anybody is still building this engine I can offer some corrections.

But I also have a query on the spectacle plate the drawing shows a square hole with a notch above but what is this for ?

If you still require drawings i could send them just ask

ATB Alan

[TrickyParticipant @tricky]

I think it is for a flat belt which in the full size would go to the governor but in the model would go on the pulley between the eccentrics and the dummy pulley on the displacement lubricator.

I am building this model and agree that the drawings are full of errors and lacking in detail. I have a copy of the old Lion 3" Burrell drawings which are a doubling up of the Bassett-Lowke drawings and these have more detail. I also have a copy of the 1 1/2" Allchin drawings and these are also useful for things like draincocks.

Richard

[Alan Wilkinson 1Participant @alanwilkinson1]

any chance of a copy of your drawing of the specticale plate and front plate please

[TrickyParticipant @tricky]

The drawings I use are scanned in versions of the originals and originally I made the plates to these plans but once I started trial assembly of the cylinder and motion I found the holes were in the wrong place so I remade them to fit the eccentrics and connecting rod! Also I re-designed the boiler to have separate hornplates so the width between the hornplates was different to that on the plans.

Richard

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