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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #270 on: August 07, 2014, 04:55:50 PM »
An offer I'm sure you will find hard to refuse :)

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #271 on: August 07, 2014, 06:35:04 PM »
Home in one piece  :whoohoo:

And it brought a friend home  :naughty:

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #272 on: August 07, 2014, 06:54:38 PM »
Did you not get the blowdowns moved back in the end?

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #273 on: August 07, 2014, 07:12:55 PM »
And it brought a friend home  :naughty:

A locomotive boiler?
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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #274 on: August 07, 2014, 08:03:04 PM »
Did you not get the blowdowns moved back in the end?

 :headscratch:  Those blowdowns are 38mm back from the front of the throat plate, add to it the dummy throat plate and the fact that I am not building a Hannings BB1 I am building a Fowler BB1 my steering brackets mount up the hornbrackets not along the sides :ShakeHead:

If it goes any further back it will be behind the hind wheel  :hellno: and you will not be able to get at it.

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #275 on: August 07, 2014, 08:11:29 PM »
They are behind the hind wheel. I make it you need 68mm from the front of the dummy throatplate to the edge of the bush minimum, thats based on full size also

Rear edge of steering brackets is approx in line with the third row of rivits back on the full size which is 16" ( 8.25 + 3.875 + 3.875) = 67.73mm on the model

Agreed Hainings brackets are wrong the ones on teh GA don't match the ones on sheet 16 and also the hornplates should extend down to the foundation ring which would allow for the correct 6 fixing studs

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #276 on: May 08, 2015, 12:08:39 PM »
Snap  ;D  Thank you Bill it has just arrived. 8)

 :thinking: The two are not exactly the same. Which one, which one to use  :headscratch:.

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #277 on: May 08, 2015, 12:23:10 PM »
Think I'm inclined to go with the one on the left as the flatter spokes look better and there is less of a filler where the spokes meet the hub. But if you can't decide you now have no excuse for not making a pair :LittleDevil:

Do you know from whos patterns the two have been taken? Tyler & Blackgates?



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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #278 on: May 08, 2015, 12:35:10 PM »
Do you know from whos patterns the two have been taken? Tyler & Blackgates?

 ;) One of each. I will probably take them along to the Stratfield Saye meeting so the Traction Engine boys can see the difference between the two.

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #279 on: May 08, 2015, 01:03:30 PM »
I thought you might have the engine finished before the Nov meeting :Jester:

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #280 on: May 19, 2015, 05:40:15 AM »
Just Spent the whole evening going through your entire build. Most enjoyable, I like seeing the unique ways that you solved different problems.

It has inspired me to get out the set of colour slides I took of every engine that was at the first Expo steam in Battersea Park way back in the dark ages of 1969 on my first trip back home as a young lad.

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #281 on: May 19, 2015, 07:01:57 AM »
Thanks Mike,

On of these days I must get back to this engine but life seems to be getting in the way  ::)

Jo
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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #282 on: May 19, 2015, 07:43:52 PM »
Jo,

I have been following your build since the beginning with great interest. From you first postings you discussed the various sources of drawings and castings, as well descibing, along with JasonB the workings of the plough winding gear.

Since then I have kept an active interest in Fowler Plouging Engines and have recently discovered, to my surprise, that the Museaum of English Life at my alma mater hold the Fowler archives, apparently including the drawings, it seems for every class.

Have you been able to consult these? Maybe it would be worth my while to make the round trip from Nottinghamshire.

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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #283 on: May 19, 2015, 08:41:10 PM »
Thanks Jerry,

Yes the Reading Museum of Rural Life holds all the original Fowler works drawings including the original patent for Fowler's Mole Drainer  8)

I keep getting tempted to go up there but it is like so many places its more fun if you go with a friend  :embarassed:.

Jo
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Re: Fowler BB1 in 2"
« Reply #284 on: May 19, 2015, 08:53:29 PM »
Richard down at Bartlett Eng has now got a lot of ploughing engine drawings and can scan and print upto A0 if Horsham is easier for you Jo.

 

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