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  • 8 October 2011 at 19:19 #76019
    Sub Mandrel
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      Model loosely based on an engine at Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester:
       
      The base is milled from an alloy billet. Flywheel is 4 1/2″ for a sense of the size. I’m afraid the brickwork is a bit naff, in fact it’s all a bit rough –  many of the parts were rejects from my table engine, and as there was so nearly a complete engine there I thought why not?. Here’s the ‘prototype’:

      Neil

      Edited By Stub Mandrel on 08/10/2011 19:21:48

      8 October 2011 at 19:19 #3102
      Sub Mandrel
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        8 October 2011 at 21:29 #76029
        Jeff Dayman
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          Looking very good Neil, nice job.
           
          Got anything planned to make for it to drive?
           
          JD
          9 October 2011 at 21:21 #76089
          Sub Mandrel
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            Thanks Jeff,
             
            I’ve always got my eyes open for a nice generator.
             
            Neil
            9 October 2011 at 22:11 #76092
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              Very nice engine you have there Neil, well done. Why does everyone always want to make a generator for their engine? Steam engines usualy drove machinery directly from the flywheel.

              12 October 2011 at 21:32 #76167
              Sub Mandrel
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                Hi E.B.
                 
                Perhaps because making a factory full of spinning and weaving machines is beyond us?
                 
                 
                Neil
                13 October 2011 at 09:30 #76179
                Ian S C
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                  Hi Neil, there is actually a nice little over type generator in vol 1, no., 3 ME (1898), plus a few others, dynamos, batteries, and anything electrical was popular among modelers. The one that I have that would be about the size you will build is based on a Cannings electro plating generator, sorry no pics, its a bit scruffy. Ian S C
                  13 October 2011 at 21:50 #76222
                  Sub Mandrel
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                    You’re enjoying your Volume 1, Ian!
                     
                    I met two Cannings directors in a board room at their Birmingham HQ once (late 90s). I don’t recall all the details but I remember the building was like a town hall with cast iron decorations, wooden panelling, paintings of the founders, marble tiles – all the trappings of Victorian industrial success. A few cabinets with modern product is scattered about. I think they’ve gone now.
                     
                    Sixteen years in Brum and a fair few big names have gone -not just Rover , Cincinnati went with hardly anyone noticing.
                     
                    Neil
                    14 October 2011 at 05:18 #76241
                    Ian S C
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                      I believe that this is similar to one that was obtained in the 1880s for the Turbine at our museum, it was about three foot high, 100 V , 11Kw output, they came in many sizes, right from little ones about 6″ high for battery charging, and up

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