Menck IV steam shovel model 1:12

[crueby]

That wheel wrench is my new-thing-learned today!

[Dan Rowe]

Here is one I found by a google search of wheel wrench.

Now I have to make a scale version for my mini tool collection.

Cheers Dan

[derekwarner]

Yep.....thats it Dan 'there was one or two on every deck of the engine room in a pipe welded to the railing'. including the E/R bottom Flat where the valves for Sea Chests to manifold pipes connected again with isolation valves to Eductor and Ballast mains

The 'wheel wrench'   , absolutely invaluable 

Derek

[horst.b.0]

The Menck steam shovel is now equipped with a non functional ashpan, which can easily be removed to give access to the compressed air connection.

The crowd engine now has levers connecting the reversing-valve to the operator’s place. As the crowd engine does not really work with compressed air, I decided to make scale size steam pipes which can’t take air pressure. The flanges are held by 1 mm brass screws. There was no flexible pipe connection between the house and the boom. To move the boom, six flanges had to be unscrewed.
Walls and the roof of the house are removed, awaiting painting. I will make a display cabinet for the model to protect it from dust.

[Michael S.]

Hello Horst,

this will be a very good model of an excavator.
Maybe I can admire it live at some exhibition.

Michael