Recent content by southall

thanks for that prompt reply Brian, regards, southall.

Hi all, a query about spirits of salts, I have an old bottle of this in my workshop, I believe it was used as a flux or cleaner for soft soldering, I know it is extremely corrosive,[left open for an hour and overnight my rulers were red rust the next day!] I use Duzall for my soft soldering...

hi jasonb and everyone, thought i'd better make contact with you guys, think it.s a great website, i'm from nz, and joined about a month ago, i'm lousy on computers, a friend of my wifes is helping me with this post, i've included a picture of my paddle engine below, got to go now, I'll post...

Hi Jason, I built the side paddle engines ages ago, I only had castings for the cylinders, [swapped a model boat for them] [this was in the early 70's] very interesting engine, I would love to built a paddle steamer to put them in, maybe I will one day. I'm a newbie and this is my first reply...

Engineer Magazine have just uploaded some build articles and plans that may be of interest and they are free to non subscribers Two Paddle steamer engines Entabablature engine ( nice engraving of the finished engine towards the end of the pdf) So who's going to make one then :) There are...

Hi everyone, delighted to read about Westbury paddle engines, the side wheel engine is 99% complete, I started it more than 2 decades ago, moved to NZ, lost the plans, interest rekindled when I downloaded from your information, I intend to complete then do the sternwheeler, many many thanks...