Lady Stephanie

[Bob WildParticipant @bobwild67557]

Bother. I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I built Lady Stephanie recently. No problems but the supplied drawings were almost unreadable, so I used the magazine articles. There is a funny story (now). The entablature casting was terribly distorted so I sent it back to the address on the drawings. No response after a while so I phoned Reeves. They said that they moved from that address many years ago so my parcel was lost! They refused to send me a replacement until I gave them the original. Despite the fact that they had given me the wrong address they were unrepentant and I had to give up in the end. So I prefabricated the entablature myself in the end and put Reeves on my list of non-preferred suppliers 🙁🙁

[Merddyn’s DadParticipant @merddynsdad]

Mike,

The tapped holes are to hold the 'shoes' in place that the main pedestals sit on.

The shoes have small lips for wedges to lock and adjust the pedestals position, this is all to replicate the original (full size) construction.

In the full size engine these 'shoes' would be part of the top plate casting, then the erector would only have to chisel and file a small area for the pedestals, the wedges would allow him to adjust the position of the crankshaft to align with the rest of the engine.

Hope this helps.

S

[Alan BaysParticipant @alanbays76044]

I built Lady Steph about 10 years ago. She ran very nicely on air so I stripped her down for painting and left the parts in a box for a few months. When I went to re-erect, the eccentric strap and rod were nowhere to be found. Meanwhile I had donated the plans to someone on this forum. I assumed I had lost the parts somewhere under the bench and that they would eventually turn up, but having recently moved house and cleared out the workshop they are still missing.

So… does anyone have a copy of the eccentric strap and rod drawing that they could help me with? She is now all painted and pretty in a display cabinet, but would look a lot better running.

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

Posted by Alan Bays on 08/01/2021 02:21:13:

I built Lady Steph about 10 years ago. She ran very nicely on air so I stripped her down for painting and left the parts in a box for a few months. When I went to re-erect, the eccentric strap and rod were nowhere to be found. Meanwhile I had donated the plans to someone on this forum. I assumed I had lost the parts somewhere under the bench and that they would eventually turn up, but having recently moved house and cleared out the workshop they are still missing.

So… does anyone have a copy of the eccentric strap and rod drawing that they could help me with? She is now all painted and pretty in a display cabinet, but would look a lot better running.

Hi Alan is this what you need? I took the photo from my plans, if it's not clear I can scan them. My lady stephanie is still a bix of castings and lumps of metal, one day I might get round to making it!

IanJ

[Alan BaysParticipant @alanbays76044]

Thanks Ian, that's just what I needed.

Apologies for the slow reply – I had a bunch of Covid related family issues lately and only just got around to checking the forum. You should definitely get around to making it sometimes, it's an interesting build and makes a very attractive model.

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

No problem Alan glad to help out. Hope the covid issues get sorted! I've got my first jab booked in the next couple of weeks!

Can't see me starting the lady stephanie any time soon, I've been making the stothert and Pitt beam engine for what seems like a lifetime! But John carruthers model is really nice and could provide some inspiration.

IanJ

[Gerhard NovakParticipant @gerhardnovak66893]

I found this thread as I just ordered a set of castings with my wifes bank card – there is Christmas on the horizon.

Looking forward to build this model!

Gerhard

[Peter Russell 1Participant @peterrussell1]

In reply to Ian Johnson's post with a picture of the drawing, I recently bought the set of drawings for Lady Stephanie, but the quality of my drawings was nowhere near as good as Ian's. Mine looked like 4th generation photocopies and were so poor that a lot of the detail was very difficult to see.

I complained to Reeves, but was met with a very curt reply from the lady on the phone to the effect that they wouldn't change them or give me a refund.

I wrote to them with an official complaint and was told that there was nothing wrong with the drawings.

I will certainly NEVER use this company again, and would advise others to do the same. They don't deserve our hard-earned cash.

Peter

[Bob WildParticipant @bobwild67557]

I agree totally with Peter. If you read my earlier post , not only were the drawings terrible quality but they had moved from the address on them many years ago. So when I posted off the distorted entablature it disappeared into the ether. They were totally unrepentant and refused to supply a replacement until I sent them the original. Very poor customer service.

Bob

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 26/10/2015 18:23:31:

Cripes, you're past me already… and I've only be going at it for about 10 or 12 years…

Neil

come on Neil let's have a race

H

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