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Looking forward to this. I haven't said much but I enjoyed Thumper.Quote from: Brian Rupnow on May 11, 2020, 01:05:58 AMI'm back down in the bat cave nowIs that where all this business started?
I'm back down in the bat cave now
I recall reading somewhere that the original Rocket had wooden front wheels and a ball and socket joint from one spoke to the connecting rod each side. Making wood wheels might be less difficult than metal ones.Another thought if making metal ones - have a waterjet or laser cutting firm cut all the spokes and the hub and rim/felloes in one part, and add "washer" shaped parts to each side of it for rims and flanges and crank plate protrusions. Just food for thought. A few rivets through the stack and some Loctite could hold the laminations together.
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co26970/sectioned-conjectural-model-of-rocket-steam-locomotive-model-steam-locomotive
Playing around on that site, if you click on the link towards the lower right corner of the page, "View manifest in IIIF viewer", you can see all the images and plan sheets in full high resolution. Awesome detail. Looks like they have 8 of the 9 or 10 pages of the original plans that Stuart Turner did for that model.
Quote from: crueby on May 15, 2020, 02:18:17 AMPlaying around on that site, if you click on the link towards the lower right corner of the page, "View manifest in IIIF viewer", you can see all the images and plan sheets in full high resolution. Awesome detail. Looks like they have 8 of the 9 or 10 pages of the original plans that Stuart Turner did for that model.They used 64ths Jo
Chris, the way you are talking I can see a new project taking shape
They used 64ths
Quote from: Jo on May 15, 2020, 08:16:14 AMThey used 64ths That's because even if they had been able to get thousandths on their steel rules it would have been difficult to set their firm leg callipers to the divisionsMaybe you should invest in one of these Jo