my engine build

dipstick · 30-11-2007

i finally worked out how to use the camera.
sort of!
chris

bobs · 30-11-2007

hi chris, wow thats an ambitious project, dont wanna guess how much that piece of copper is worth for the boiler! comming along nicely though, i have just received my first grandson and this is a project i would love to make him, just on a smaller scale, how long has your project been under construction? that looks like "one well equiped" workshop there.

dipstick · 01-12-2007

so far the build has cost around £1000, but it is a 3" scale model, so about 45" long when it is finished, it has taken 1 year of build one or two days a week. and the workshop were that photo was taken, is the college work shop. and as for making and engine for your grandson go for it, but i suggest you start him off on a wilesco or mamod model, as they are slightly more robust.
chris

**Bluewavestudios** · 01-12-2007

Nice Work there Chris,
I take it that is the same engine as per your Avatar Pic.
Looking very promising so far, Keep us updated with the progress...she looks like she is going to turn out a very nice model indeed.

Regards........Mark

mike71 · 03-12-2007

Your engine is going to be a fine model when finished, I wish I had the use of a workshop like the one you are using.
I have built a 3"scale Marshall and a 2" scale Durham and North Yorkshire a total of eleven years work, in my garden shed and garage.

dipstick · 03-12-2007

the avatar pic is myself and my friend on his engine at dorset steam fair, but the model is only a single cylinder, where as that engine is compound.

i hope to finish it, but i am enquiring about a 10 ton wallis and steveens advance roller that has been in a barn for the last 20 years, which will be a big project rebuilding it.

mike your engines look really good especially the 7nhp marshall. i would love to know what you thought of the drawings and how it was to build, as it was a possibility when i was deciding what to build.

chris

mike71 · 04-12-2007

Chris, I found the drawings for the Marshall very good and easy to follow, and no errors, the engine was quite straight forward to build even with my limited workshop facilities, the boiler is steel which I had to buy, and I had to have the flywheel machined as my lathe wouldn't swing the diameter, I machined the gears as blanks and had the teeth cut by a outside firm. Apart from having to adjust the blast pipe size, I can say the engine worked right off the drawing.