Daniel has been busy in the workshop, a mixture of ‘Round Tuit’ work, progressing his current projects & starting a new one! My ‘Round Tuit’ job was based on the decision that I had become tired of having to retrieve things from behind the lathe. As I didn’t want to pay the few hundred Read more about A ‘Riveting’ Update…..[…]
Cliff H. contacted the News Desk to say: ‘I’ve been enjoying the ‘what our members are making’ section on the website. Very nice work with Brewstina – I imagine your colleague’s daughter was delighted to receive her. Perhaps I can contribute with an update to the Nixie Tube Clock I first showed at the 2018 Read more about Nixie – A Quick Project…..[…]
An interesting aspect of this lockdown has been to see the diversity of interests & talent amongst our membership. We seem to have used the time productively and have shared these results via t’internet. A case in point being the email from Ken describing his most recent work: ‘I too have been busy in my Read more about Wave Sculpture…..[…]
Well, if that hasn’t grabbed your attention…..! When Dave S’s email dropped into the News Desk inbox with the same title, I was intrigued. I knew that the bell was being refurbished, I know that Dave has capacity in his workshop for large engineering, but this? Surely not…. ‘The dome for ‘Dholphur’ which I had Read more about Machining ‘Big Ben’…..[…]
Alec W. has been in touch about a project he has been working on. It is slightly unusual, but shows the ingenuity model engineers have when faced with challenges in the construction of our models: ‘A few years ago whilst making small valves for the 9F I needed to create 1/8” square holes in some Read more about Broaching The Subject….[…]
You have one new e-mail: ‘Lockdown activity at Ratho’. With a title like that, it could only be from from James! The editor was delighted to read that James was still continuing with track work, albeit with a more intimate working party: ‘Attached are a few photos of progress at Ratho during the lockdown. The Read more about Keeping His Hand In……[…]
Young Daniel seems to have multi tasking off to a fine art, working on two projects in different gauges at the same time, both making good progress. The latest update concerns progress on his 16mm ‘Dacre’….. ‘A start has been made on the bodywork, but this will not be the final colour. Originally Read more about Multi Tasking…..[…]
Chris has submitted some further pictures of his Su 251-53 in the workshop. If you look carefully there are numerous parts of this unique model in various stages of completion sitting on the worktops. What a nice & tidy workshop it is too.
Following Alex’s update on his scaled up and modified 1947 design of Edgar T Westbury’s ‘Seal’, (if you recall, Alex wrote ‘when Ross won the Farr trophy for his almost complete engine spurred me on further’). This has prompted Ross M. to drop a line with pictures of progress on his ‘Sealion’ to the original Read more about The Sealion…..[…]
No, the Bathgate Locomotive Works manager has not thrown a tantrum! When one doesn’t own, or have access to, a set of bending rolls then lateral thinking comes into play. The fallplate below the smokebox has two curves. The following show the evolution of the two curves: Read more about Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention…..[…]
