My little engine (continued)

[GarryCParticipant @garryc]

Thanks Julian

but please the last thing I want is to drag in any of the friends I have made here for fear of them getting the same treatment as me – that would be upsetting..

I see this dead thread is still limping on.

This has all been something of a surprise as there were only a very small number of people who interacted with the thread when it was still going with the build. The obvious thing here is why are people not building for themselves – the no.1 is available of course from Stuart Models but also other suppliers and is readily available, not very expensive, or there are even cheaper builds of course to try – my thread as I kept stressing all the way through was written for beginners by me a beginner myself – these engines I think are a great way into the hobby and teach a lot of the basic ideas. If cost is an issue then why not just buy the plans first and then buy the individual castings one at a time once a plan of construction is found from studying the drawings, buy in some bar stock ( very cheap ) and you are away for next to nothing…

Several different forums to try if you want to put the build on line, I found it invaluable and I don't think I would have got going without doing so, but others I see just ask questions on line as and when needed, others manage on their own or via their club support.. Its always been my hope that a by product of my online build would encourage other beginners to get into the hobby, and help more to preserve some of the old skills that helped make this country great, something I'm a bit passionate about – but I fear whats happened here will now have had the reverse effect. It still hasn't clicked for me why there was such a negative response on here to the 'builds thread' question – Engineering is in part involved with building, constructing, making things, call it whatever you like and some of the concepts and practice I was sure overlapped with the machining side of things – so building a model engine on a model engineering website seemed natural to me – anyway when I discovered this forum doesn't see it that way at all and I was most definitely in the wrong place I had to stop. Unless the forums position has been clarified lately in all this I wouldn't now advise a beginner to start here for fear of something similar happening to them. Don't even consider it. If the forum does decide it wants builds here then I hope it gets behind and supports the people that write them, whats the point otherwise, may just as well start a build thread at Tesco's otherwise…

Hopefully that's it here, for me anyway – I'll turn off the links later, I'd forgotten that I have I think to 'un-follow' the thread to stop the update notifications so I won't be seeing any more…

Regards

Garry

 

Edited By Garry_C on 14/11/2015 05:10:07

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I have locked this thread while it is discussed with the other Mods

Edited By JasonB on 14/11/2015 07:54:45

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