rockets
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Hopefully this is the right part to post this. Admin, please relocate if needs be.
Having been a member of this forum for years, I am finally getting around to posting something relevant. About 35 years ago, our father gave my brother Carl Wilson, also a member on here, and I, a large wooden box of Meccano which he had exchanged for a case of beer with one of his shipmates. As well as the fantastic haul of Meccano, most of which was 1930s, there were two small model steam engine cylinders. These looked home made and probably dated from the same era. As children, we immediately decided that we would build engines with these, despite having no lathe or other means to do so!
Fast forward about 35 years and the Meccano and one of the cylinders is still around. The other sadly seems to have been lost over the decades.
I have three children of my own so I've decided to fulfill the childhood idea and complete the engine for my boys to mess around with. The lathe is used to making parts for motorbikes so it can have a change. I'll post as I make progress as and when time allows. Not very ambitious compared to some projects on here, but hopefully it will get me back into making models again. I have a 54" motor yacht laser cut which needs to be built and the plan is to build a E T Westbury design engine for it.
Hopefully pictures of the cylinder and a piston and rod I've made will appear below.
Rockets.
Having been a member of this forum for years, I am finally getting around to posting something relevant. About 35 years ago, our father gave my brother Carl Wilson, also a member on here, and I, a large wooden box of Meccano which he had exchanged for a case of beer with one of his shipmates. As well as the fantastic haul of Meccano, most of which was 1930s, there were two small model steam engine cylinders. These looked home made and probably dated from the same era. As children, we immediately decided that we would build engines with these, despite having no lathe or other means to do so!
Fast forward about 35 years and the Meccano and one of the cylinders is still around. The other sadly seems to have been lost over the decades.
I have three children of my own so I've decided to fulfill the childhood idea and complete the engine for my boys to mess around with. The lathe is used to making parts for motorbikes so it can have a change. I'll post as I make progress as and when time allows. Not very ambitious compared to some projects on here, but hopefully it will get me back into making models again. I have a 54" motor yacht laser cut which needs to be built and the plan is to build a E T Westbury design engine for it.
Hopefully pictures of the cylinder and a piston and rod I've made will appear below.
Rockets.