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Hi All. Many thanks for the information it was most informative, you have put my mind at rest in more ways than one :). I live in Telford, Shropshire,UK, an ex fireman on Brittish Railways W/R. GWRDRIVER. That is the loco in question. Best Regards to All. Theo.

Hi Jason. Many thanks for your advise, it appears to me that most of the small boilers must be made useing imperial copper tube, i think this is what i will have to do, there is a safety valve fitted and one can always adjust the burner. I don't feel like importing copper tube from France.

Hi Jasonb. The drawings i downloaded off the net, they are of a 0-4-0 live steam French narrow gauge Decauville for G scale. All measurements are in millimeters, soes this help any.

Can anyone advise please if there is a dealer that sells large diameter copper tube in millimeters, i require a piece 63mm od x 2mm wall for a boiler shell.

Hi Blogwitch. The spindle nose is a whitworth thread of 8 TPI i checked this at the begining with the thread gauge. That was sound advice you gave, so i will be taking that road. Once again many thanks for your and other members help. Best Regards Theo.

Hi Members. Mank thanks for your replies they where most welcome. CrewCab your lathe must be a ML7, after the ML4 the headstock spindle was changed on the ML7 to 1.1/8", as far as i could see on the RDG website the taps ended at 3/4" and jumped to 1.1/8" for the later Myford. Blogwitch, many...

Hi Members. I am new on this site and need some help, i have a Myford ML4 lathe that needs a new back plate machineing for a 3 jaw chuck, i have the blank casting but are having trouble locating a 7/8"x 8 tpi tap to mount it on the headstock. Can anyone advise where i can get one from, any help...

Many thanks Shred and Blogwich, i have finaly downloaded it and looking forward to a good read. once again many thanks for a rapid reply. Regards. Theo.

Hi Members Can someone advise as to how to download My little book on building my engine, i have tried to do this by using the links but get a notice that they are not PDF files or are corrupted so i could not download the PDF files, any help would be appreciated. :)