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Covid/winter project
« on: October 12, 2020, 03:50:53 pm »
I took delivery of lots of laser cut steel.....
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Re: Covid/winter project
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2020, 06:29:01 pm »
Do you want a nice little Lister engine to go on it rbchn wdesmle
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2020, 08:28:59 am »
Do you want a nice little Lister engine to go on it rbchn wdesmle

I have got a Lister D already thanks. This engine is designed to use a Suffolk Punch engine (or modern equivalent). The completed engine in really small and termed 'minimal gauge'. In effect, its not a model, but full size really small engine that you ride on as opposed to being pulled behind.

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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2020, 08:44:16 am »
I want one of those, gonna have to sell something methinks rbchn rbchn
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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2020, 11:24:28 am »
Hi Strang, have you local track to run it on ?

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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2020, 04:37:34 pm »
Hi Ian,

Yes no shortage actually, Halifax and Brighouse, Huddersfield, Bradford and Pugneys in Wakefield. Plus there is that bit of 7 1/4 track at Bolton Abbey too!
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2020, 04:41:44 pm »
If you build the battery version, you can run them indoors!

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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2020, 02:42:19 pm »
Brilliant mate, well done

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« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2020, 06:10:23 pm »
Progress......

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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2020, 04:09:35 pm »
Control levers fitted and horn blocks assembled

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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2020, 12:17:02 pm »
Have you got a petrol engine for it?  I have a Suffolk Punch in the workshop which you'd be welcome to.

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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2020, 06:20:09 pm »
Have you got a petrol engine for it?  I have a Suffolk Punch in the workshop which you'd be welcome to.

Thats a very kind offer thanks, but I have a Loncin (chinese type Honda equivalent) ready to fit.
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2020, 03:35:58 pm »
Engine cradle completed and wheels fitted with sprockets. The cradle is a very clever set of laser cut parts. The petrol engine sits on the top of the cradle and drives the dynamo which sits underneath. The white pulley acts as a clutch to control pressure on the drive belt.

The sprockets are mounted onto the axles using taperlocks - fiendishly simple, and yet something I had never come across before. The engineers on this forum will probably be aware of such systems.

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« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2020, 10:07:25 am »
Very nice, Strang!
That little engine looks like it's got chunky enough bits to go and do proper work, well done  :D