My models and our workshop

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

William, enjoy your eccentricity and don't ever let people persuade you to change. I'm still enjoying mine at the age of 76, in spite of the fact I don't have your talents. Anyway, being known as the village eccentric is much better than being the village idiot!

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

If you came to this part of the world, you might be just the guy to get a job at Weta Workshops in Wellington, Lord of the Rings, and a whole lot more.

Ian S C

[Tractor manParticipant @tractorman]

Hi William. Have you ever met Barry Jordan. He’s a lovely guy. I’ve sent you a private message to chat about model machinery. Mick

[clogsParticipant @clogs]

it's nice to see a lad getting on and this fantastic forum helping him out….

good luck for the future young man, we need people like U……Clogs

[William SParticipant @williams]

Hi all

So the following pictures are of the shed and the machinery in there, showing what I still want to make in miniature.

Firstly here's the shed from the outside (please excuse the stuff in the garden)

Then here's the view from the door, it may seem large however my dads motor bike in the previous image goes to the right of the image (where the bmx is) and when the 3 bikes are in there as well, space is fairly limited.

The view to the left of the door, tool grinder and disc sander

The bandsaw,vice and little anvil

The mill and lathe

Pillar drill and belt sander. That's about it for the contents of the shed, soon to grow and evolve, hopefully!

Then this is the tailstock cam lock my dad made, dam site more convenient the nut that used to be on there, was quite a steep and exiting first real engineering project.

Then here is the solid bronze carrage stops, that were firsly machined oversize in wax and then cast by my granddad in bronze. My dad made 2, by machining them both as a solid lump and then cutting it in half.

Again another steep learning process to produce some accurate and well fitting pieces.

Thanks for reading and any questions please ask.

William

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Poshest lathe stops on the planet

Neil

[Dod MoleParticipant @georgeclarihew]

Them photos inside the shed makes it hard to tell which is real machinery or model.

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Posted by George Clarihew on 24/05/2017 20:47:07:

Them photos inside the shed makes it hard to tell which is real machinery or model.

Maybe it's a trick and he's really made a very realistic model shed.

Michael W

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Michael-w on 24/05/2017 21:21:52:

Posted by George Clarihew on 24/05/2017 20:47:07:

Them photos inside the shed makes it hard to tell which is real machinery or model.

Maybe it's a trick and he's really made a very realistic model shed.

Michael W

LOL

And a realistic model motorcycle, bicycle, garden, house, neighbour's house – where will it all end?! .

[William SParticipant @williams]

Hi all as you can probably tell i don't want make models of the typical things, i prefer to make models of things a bit off the beaten track.

I have am a bit of a fan of electric industrial vehicles, this all really stems from the school I go to having an original Wales and Edwards rangemaster milkfloat up until last December, it was used by the caretakers/groundsmen to ferry stuff around a large and hilly site, exam desks, chairs, exam papers, deliveries, music equipment, you name it it carried it! it was well suited because it had a large, covered, flat bed, large enough to carry 4×8 sheet goods flat.well this was the last one after owning around 5 (when my mum was at this school they had a very early Wales and Edwards float from around the 40/50's) well slowly these have all gone to the local scrapy. Shame because they are quite rare, when I joined in 2011 they had 2, both in original dairy crest and Unigate livery, well the dairy crest one went, the Unigate float was repainted blue but other than that it was poorly maintained but it just kept on going. Being an electric vehicle there was very little to maintain, but it could of done with a bit of grease every so often. Well last December it finally gave up. Because it's a 3 wheeler the front wheel was supported in an A frame and the steering was exactly the same as a motorcycle, many years of bouncing over speed humps and curbs had just stressed the welded on A frame causing it to break off of the chassis, it was parked near to where it broke, and left. Because i had an interest in it i had a look underneath it and saw the problem, apparently according to the caretakers it was to far gone to repair, it really wasnt the chassis was in mint condition considering the age of it but because of it being a low speed vehicle i suppose it would. i have a friend who was in the year above me that also had an interest in it. He's got a series 3 Landrover so is rather at home repairing chassis so i told him about it, he would of been happy to come with his welding gear and repair it for the school, I got the head caretakers email and told him we would be happy to repair it for the school. No chance, it was parked up for about 2 weeks and then the scrap yard came and took it away, no reply to the email we sent, so they had there minds set on the fate of the float as soon as it broke. Scrapy only wants it for the batteries.

Now ever since joined the school I had an idea that when I had the funds I would purchase the float off the school, well I had the perfect opportunity to do that, so the day it was taken away I went down the scrapyard to try and work out a deal with the scrapyard. they could have the batteries for all I care. if i was to get it i would only be able store it for the time being and the batteries were probably on there last legs anyway. Sadly I was horrified by the sight in front of me, to unload it they had just picked it up with the grabber and obliterated the fiberglass body and rear bed. This really got me because it was a perfectly good vehicle that could of been repaired so easily. Also they hadn't even taken the batteries out. So demoralized at his point i decided to go and ask if i could go and look at it and take a few bits off of it, sad but only the speedo, rubber foot pedal and side curtains and my images and plans I did of it are all that remain of it now. Still just makes me more determined to get one.

Anyway since 2011 i have had an interest in electric industrial vehicles so hence to model above, this was inspired by the little vehicle, I got at the local model shop, the measurements were taken form this and then scaled up to produce the large one which is a scale of around 1/18. I also have an interest in radio control so this was made to be rc, the speed controller is the board out of a micro servo and the steering is also controlled by a micro servo standard size receiver is currently used, a micro one would be better. The drive system used to be 2 micro motors with worm drives driving independent axles, this worked but was quite noisy and problematic this has been changed to a belt drive which surprisingly came out of a dancing barbie doll from a charity shop(it had 3 miniature motors and quite complex and miniature gearboxes) finally the battery is from an old mobile phone. it was really made just a test to see if it would work, wouldn't mind making a model of the milkfloat (hence the drawings mentioned above) and another electric vehicle which i have done drawings for, one day I will, one day.

Sorry for the rather long story

Thanks for reading

William

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