Reply To: Re-Building a Simplex Loco

[Stewart HartParticipant @stewarthart90345]

Last year I Bought a part finished Simplex Loco, it came with a boiler certificate and was more or less complete I could see that the maching was a bit rough but thought that could be tidied up. But when i got it home a started to strip it down a realised that the build standard was very rough, and as i wanted a loco that would be a reliable runner, I would have to extensivly re-work it, to date I've:-

Recut the horn blocks

Remade the frame streachers to get things square

Made to axles, and axle boxes, made new crank pins, and re quartered the wheel.

Made new cast iron pistons and fitted psiton rings, and more or less remade or the valve linkage.

Loco as bought

Re-built frame with new axle boxes axles and re-quarterd wheels, and new coupling rods

Remade valve gear cylinder and steam chest are one of the few existing bits left.

Box of rejected parts

New expansion link assembly

I'm beging to think it would have been easyer to make complete from new )

Any way I'm beging to weary of it so I'm going to give it a rest before I start on the home streach, and make a Simple Horizonatl Mill Engine that I've drawn up I've designed it so that it can be made on a lathe and a drill there is no milling required.

Cheers

Stew