Dead link - john-tom.com

[CookieCrunch]

I've been trying to find a copy of the plans for Elmer's horizontal wobbler engine (No. 25).  I remembered seeing it on www.john-tom.com and even saved a bookmark to the site because of all the other good stuff on there.  The site appears to have been down for a while.    Such a shame if this site has gone with the wealth of interesting plans.   A web search for the engine plans all point there.  Does anyone know of any other site that has Elmer's plans?

[CookieCrunch]

Actually just found this:  Elmer's Engines in PDF available.  It's a slow download but worth the wait.

https://www.myheap.com/metalworking/resources-downloads.html

It appears to be a legit download and not dodgy.  Also it's free!

[crueby]

Hope the site comes back again, it was a great source!

[b.lindsey]

Thanks for the link Nigel. When you can please post an introduction in the "introduce yourself" section and tell us a bit about yourself and your interests.

Bill

[JULIUS]

Hi there Cookecrunch

First follow this path : Model Engine Maker » Supporting » Plans and Drawings » ELMER VERBURG'S STEAM ENGINES then go to page 3 you will see Elmer Verburgs No 25 engine.
Hope this might help

Julius

[chucketn]

Funny, I can ping www.john-tom.com and get a reply, but the address gives 503 error. A trick I learned years ago is to put the ip address returned by the ping into the browser, but that gives a 403 error, Forbidden. So, my guess, is that server is still there but having problems.

[Jasonb]

You can find it all on the web archive

http://web.archive.org/web/20170908130115/http://www.john-tom.com:80/ElmersEngines/25_26_WobblerBoiler.pdf

[CookieCrunch]

Thanks Jason, I keep forgetting about the webarchive.  I don't know why because I've used it often. 

Julius, many thanks for the wonderful drawings.  I will be visiting that thread many times in the future I think.


Nigel

[Stuart]

John-Tom.com

Works for me

[propforward]

Yep, back up and running now.

Seems to have undergone rather an update since I last looked at it though.

[crueby]

Excellent - glad it is back!

[b.lindsey]

The pop up ads are very annoying though!! The download shown by CookieCrunch seems the best alternative for Elmer's plans, though I have the book, but I can print the pdf version more easily and the quality seems better than some of John-Toms scans.

Bill