Building the Minnie Traction Engine.

[Malcolm FarrantParticipant @malcolmfarrant93389]

Although I have some lathe experience. I have not tried to tackle anything as big as this

I have the necessary castings, so any thought, tips etc will be very much apreciated

[Malcolm FarrantParticipant @malcolmfarrant93389]

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

The book of the build is worth getting a copy of and check out some of the later thinking for the stays and horn plate attachment.

Mike

[Clive Brown 1Participant @clivebrown1]

L C Mason wrote a book on the Minnie, W J Hughes wrote on the Allchin, if you can get hold of either they would be a great help, but might be hard to find at a reasonable price. Alternatively, the Minnie was serialised in detail in ME in the early '70's IIRC. The Allchin was serialised twice.

Edited By Clive Brown 1 on 03/09/2017 11:08:06

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

Posted by Mike Poole on 03/09/2017 11:06:38:

The book of the build is worth getting a copy of and check out some of the later thinking for the stays and horn plate attachment.

Mike

Mike

Could you be more specific, or tell me where to find the information you mentioned please.

A pal of mine is just starting a Minnie and would be interested in anything new that is not on the drawings or in the book.

Cheers

Phil

[Dennis DParticipant @dennisd]

There is a build thread by pgk pgk on this forum **LINK**

There is another build on MEM but it suffers from the FB picture loss but a link was supplied for Firefox users on the same forum  **LINK**

Edited By Dennis D on 03/09/2017 12:26:46

Edited By Dennis D on 03/09/2017 12:30:45

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

A 3D CAD model and photos of the 1" Minnie can be downloaded from GrabCad

**LINK**

[ianjParticipant @ians]

There's a copy of L C Masons book on the Home Workshop site for £10:-

**LINK**

scroll down to Wednesday 17th Aug.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Read you PMs before buying a book

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

The book by Len Mason calls for threaded stays soft soldered, but it seems silver soldering is now required/preferred. The silver soldering seems to allow a plain stay eg a copper rivet. The array of nine stays for the attachment of the horn plates can be modified to 4 hollow stays to bolt through and Five plain stays. Plenty of Minnie’s have been built using both methods and a bit of a look round this forum will turn up some info and a Google search will find details of how people have done this. This is what I have found out and yet to put into practice. Others will guide you from real experience.
Mike

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

Cheers Mike

I will pass that info on.

Phil

[Malcolm FarrantParticipant @malcolmfarrant93389]

I have been a bit busy the past few days, BUT WOW what a set of very kind responses. I have now joined GrabCad, and started to look a the files,

Thank you all so much faorv helping me.

Best wishes

Malcolm

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