Recent content by nhoj

Hi Alan, all of my cutters have come from CTC in America and are listed as $16.20 each unfortunately they don't seem to carry 32dp cutters, a quick search brought up RDG in England have 32dp cutters for $28.16 each,the boiler was purchased from Maccsteam LTD. located in England in 2014 for...

Hi Peter, love your work, I built a #12 a couple of years ago, see attached video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB8IPPFz8nU I have a spare cast iron beam unmachined that you may have for free, I live on mount tamborine not far from you,as for the bevel gears I made my own from...

Hi guys, lots of information there, from horse manure to solder so I think I'll go with tinning the parts before riveting as JasonB suggests, thanks for your input, John.

Hi I'm just starting on my first locomotive build a Baldwin 2 6 0 and whilst waiting for castings to be made I'm working on the tender, I have the tank cut out ready to assemble and I notice that a lot of the fittings are attached by rivets to the tank, question is are rivets waterproof or do...

Hi, just a quick link to the Bolton running on steam for first time, still needs a little work but very encouraging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB8IPPFz8nU John.

Hi, some photos of how the Bolton #12 is coming along, I won't bore you with details of the machining as most of you are much better at it than me, just to say it took about 3 attempts at the gears to get them right, the ball turning went well and the drain cock sealed first attempt, the water...

Hi all, I've got a little bit of progress on the Bolton to report, I finished the other projects I was working on by Christmas so now can put all my effort into the beam engine, I started on the two bevel gears for the governor and after a couple of failed attempts finished up with two gears in...

Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who has experience in operating cast iron steam engines of the size shown in post #3 above on steam, and what procedures they use to prevent rust forming in the cylinder, the cylinder shown above has a lubricator on top so does it operate like an displacement...

can any one tell me what the brass item on top of the cylinder is? my guess is a drain cock though it looks more like a lubricator, its not in the position I would expect for either application, John.

Hi, I've just acquired a semi completed Bolton # 12 which is an Stuart major beam engine made in Australia under license by EJ Winters in NSW, it came with most of the castings and a set of plans, some from Stuarts and some from Bolton and it appears that the measurements differ between the two...