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Greetings, I am lucky in that my workshop is connected into the bungalow central heating system, and access is via the conservatory, so I am always warm, nit walks to the bottom of the garden in the rain for me to visit my sanctuary.

That said, I tend to spend shorter periods at each session, finding that my concentration lapses after about an hour, so 1hr to coffee, another 1.5 to lunch, 1hr to afternoon tea, another to evening tea, and an hour after tea, and that works for me.

Since Covid, I have made good progress on my current project, looking forward to wrapping it up by Easter, so there is some good in this nasty virus.

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BB

Greetings to you all, and wishing you a Great Christmas, and a Healthy, Prosperous New Year.

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Brian

Hi John, drive is taken from an excentric on the RHS of the crankshaft, to an intermediate rocking lever on the front stretcher, which via another arm in the middle of the loco drives the lubricator arm, thus there is also plenty of adjustment available what with hole in three arms.

Drawing of the lubricator has been published on the is website.

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Brian

Greetings John, I never had much success using 2 pumps to feed my 3 cylinder A3, so replaced them with this which is 3 Ewins type pumps in 3 separate compartments in one tank using roller clutch motion feed. been fine for 6 years now and each cylinder enjoys oil.

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Brian

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Greetings, I think you will find model engineering UK wheel standards listed on both the Southern federation of M E S or the Northern Association of M E S websites. Whilst the gauge is obviously important, to run cleanly through pointwork, the wheel back to back measurement must be correct.

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Brian

Hi Sharon, sorry about your sad loss, cancer is a dreadful ailment.

I live about 10 miles east of Norwich, and am a Norwich Club member, as well as several other groups, and am happy to help.

You can get in touch with me via the Norwich & District Society of Model Engineers, or via a private message on this site.

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Brian

Greetings Nick, I have never found a source for these, so for all the boilers I built, I made them. You will not need many, and often a copper rivet can be threaded.

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Brian

Greetings, I used the end of a broken centre dill of the size required, ground at a suitable angle, in a home made holder to cut the radius formers you are looking to make. \Quick & easy, if you have any broken centre drills otherwise use round tool steel.

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Brian

One like this?

In Steam

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Brian

Right, thank you for the information, I will stick it on and see what happens.

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BB

I have been given a diamond wheel, which I wish to mount on my quorn Cutter grinder. Having never used a wheel of this type before, how do I true the wheel and dress it?

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Brian

"Voted in" instead of "elected"

"Boat" instead of "Ship"

Very good Andy, could that be written up, with drawings, for publication in Model Engineer?

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Brian

Thank you for that Peter, "well written" from someone who had to retake English 0 level.

Greetings Peter, my article was published in ME in three parts, 11th Nov 2016, issue 4547, pg 706, 9th Dec 2016, issue 4549 Pg 852, and the last part 6th Jan 2017, issue 4551 pg 102. It was designed as a beginners project, and many of the parts were laser cut. As it stands, it will be fine for larger 5 in gauge or 71/4 gauge locos, and many parts can be laser cut. I never did get around to a smaller gauge version. I may have a set of parts somewhere for the published version.

I think it's worth reading the article, but I would say that wouldn't I!

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Brian

Greeting Peter, a while ago, ME published a design and writeup for a variable speed blower, which I wrote. It used flat straight blades, which worked well, I used it this Sunday on my A3, and it has had plenty of use, and is one of several at my club. The blades were bolted on, using nyloc nuts, no problems so far. The clearance between the bottom edge of the fan, and the casing makes a big difference to performance. Whilst curved blades are more efficient, the whole blower was designed as a beginners project, to perhaps encourage someone who has purchased a locomotive, to start to make things themselves.

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Brian

Greetings, like you all I have so many memories of my childhood, not all good. I remember traveling on a tram from Camberwell where we lived, over Westminster Bridge, turn right onto the embankment, then into the tram tunnel under Aldwych and Kingsway, coming up into Southampton Row, turn right into theobalds road, getting off next to the Micromodels shop, then on to Grandmas, with perhaps a visit to look in Bassett Lowke's window on the way home. Walking to school, Oliver Goldsmiths Junior mixed, past the Samuel Jones Factory, the horse trough and the cornchandlers, sailing model boats, all home made on Peckham Rye pond, wacked for playing close the the Surrey Canal, the SunPat factory in Parkhurst street, visits to Bricklayers Arms shed, I could go on for ever.

Not sure I want to see those times again, but still vivid memories.

Brian

Many thanks for the informative answers to my question, which I had already tried to find an answer from the various indexes that I have, but I wondered if ME or MEW had covered it.

The current castings suppliers make mention of it, and produce within a full drawing pack, a drawing of, I think, a suitable holder.

Thank you again.

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Brian

Greetings, can anyone advise me if ME or MEW have ever published information on using ER32 collets in a Quorn cutter grinder?

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Brian