I never had the pleasure of meeting Don as I have only been a Member of Chelmsford for 6 years but what I have seen of this plus others telling me about his gold medal winning 4MT I don't doubt your words , Luckily we still have a small number of engineers left at our club !
Graham, What a wonderful piece of model engineering. I am curious about the track gauges that it is sitting on. It almost looks like 7 ¼", 10 ¼" and 12", or something like that. So where is that?
HI Dave , The Crane is sitting on our multi track steaming bay ,We have 3 1/2 , 5 and 7 inch gauges at our club in Chelmsford Essex ,I have other videos of our Railway on my channel which may help with your question .Thanks for your comments
@@jbhtrams I think there's a 5 inch gauge one somewhere ,I know what you mean though ,I should think it puts people off building one because of the amount of engineering that goes into them like cutting gears etc .it really is museum quality something I could never make ! I am fortunate to own a 7 1/4 gauge Rocket which again is rare in that scale ,built by a late engineer and goes well on one of my recent videos ,thanks for your interest
@@GRAHAM1514 I had, until recently, a 7 1/4" gauge, 1/3rd scale Ffestiniog Railway Conway Castle loco, ex-RAF Wagon 87, and Hudson Bogie wagon No.63. All built by myself for under £300, mainly from scrap and my dad's 1965 Suffolk Colt lawnmower engine and parts! If you look on You Tube under: John on Conway Castle, Wagon 87 first run, And Wagon 63 at Royden Park, something should come up. It was not as precision made as your crane, but was fairly scale and fairly unique. The Hudson Bogie was sold to a lad who drives at Betesycoed, a few years ago. The clutch on C.Castle gave out at Bala in 2017 and was getting too heavy to move about with my arthritis so I recently sold it to Lawrie Rose who presents the blog 'LMM' (Laurie's Mechanical Marvels). If you would like to see pictures email me: jbhtrams@hotmail.com
My gears were cut by a late friend when we both worked at Vauxhalls. He and the gear cutting machine are now long gone, but their workmanship is still in working order but now near Ipswich, not Wirral. I made a rocking gearbox, with 2 meshed gears, one driven by chain from a driven shaft above. The two meshed gears swung over a gear on the driving axle. This was controlled by a three notched lever giving Forward/Neutral/Reverse. The gearbox was driven by Lawnmower chain from the Lawnmower clutch from the Lawnmower engine. All quality 'BRITISH' items!
Question: Where are steel cables this small and this flexible sourced from? The cables bring to mind picture hanging wire but all of that I've had experience with years ago was coarser and less flexible than these cables.
