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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? => What Else Have You Been Up To? => Topic started by: strang on October 12, 2020, 03:50:53 pm
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I took delivery of lots of laser cut steel.....
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Do you want a nice little Lister engine to go on it rbchn wdesmle
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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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More details here - https://www.miniature-trains.co.uk/product-category/locomotives/
For the facebook users - https://www.facebook.com/groups/449895411876067
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I want one of those, gonna have to sell something methinks rbchn rbchn
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Hi Strang, have you local track to run it on ?
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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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If you build the battery version, you can run them indoors!
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Brilliant mate, well done
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Progress......
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Control levers fitted and horn blocks assembled
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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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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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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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Very nice, Strang!
That little engine looks like it's got chunky enough bits to go and do proper work, well done :D
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Cheers Tom - they are surprisingly powerful (depending upon gearing set ups with the chain sprockets) but can pull quite heavy weights up steepish gradients. Have a look at the Scamp Facebook page.
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Finally on wheels! Lots more to do - like fitting chains, motors and brakes, but at least I can push it!
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Looking good Mark
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Getting on more now its a tad warmer! Chains fitted - and working tested with a drill battery! More painting completed, brakes to fit next
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Love it! I want one now... ;D
I cam across a smallholding channel on Youtube that are building some rail tracks for moving stuff around the farm - this would be ideal!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSViWfOV4pEcYnzpV6w548Q if you're interested...
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The Scamp locos are quite powerful and can be used for work as above if you wish - have a look at this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Ar8GxCG6k&t=116s
CMD - who also make the Scamp kits do a tipper wagon kit in 7.25 guage too!
http://www.miniature-trains.co.uk/product/bolted-tipper-wagon-7%C2%BC-kit/
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Laying track eh...
So your next project needs to be a scaled down auto track laying machine such as this
(https://www.trackopedia.info/fileadmin/user_upload/03_Gleisbau_und_Instandhaltung/Gleisneubau/Schienenprofile.jpg)
pic taken from https://www.trackopedia.info/encyclopedia/railway-vehicles/railway-maintenance-machines/track-modification-machines/machines-for-track-laying
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Laying track eh...
So your next project needs to be a scaled down auto track laying machine such as this
(https://www.trackopedia.info/fileadmin/user_upload/03_Gleisbau_und_Instandhaltung/Gleisneubau/Schienenprofile.jpg)
pic taken from https://www.trackopedia.info/encyclopedia/railway-vehicles/railway-maintenance-machines/track-modification-machines/machines-for-track-laying
wdesmle
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Electrics next - not my forte, but seem simple enough......PS engine/dynamo cradle not fitted in this photo.
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Well a momentous day today as Scamp 92 ran under its own steam - so to speak! I fell quite chuffed (no pun intended) . I will try and get some video footage of it on the rails.
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Real life running at Pugneys Light Railway near Wakefield - at an organised Scamp day. Actually hauling the public too.
The yellow locomotive is the 'Flyer' - great fun, but a little hairy at times
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Another session at Pugneys Lakeside Railway - I need to try and get to a few other local tracks
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We have a track in Hull, west park, most gauges 2 1/2" up to 7 1/4"