When I was in the UK I visited Rob Wilson and he kindly offered to cast a couple of wheels for me.
I turned up with a tatty old toy steam roller which had a set of badly machined rear wheels on it.
With a little bit of thinking Rob managed to use the best of the two wheels to cast me a couple more.
Here they are in the foreground with the roller on the right that was used to make the copies and the one they were for on the left so the Mamod wheels could be replaced.
These rather tatty looking rollers were made in Australian by Renown between 1948 and the late 50s and were only ever made in small numbers and despite their rough looks are now commanding prices up around $1000 Australian for one in good cosmetic condition.
At that price its worth fixing up the rough ones.
And here they are fitted to my roller.
Even better still the thing moves, although it won't be up for any land speed records. :big:
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I don't normally post my toy steam engine restorations on this forum but wanted to post this one to say thanks to Rob for casting the wheels for me.
I turned up with a tatty old toy steam roller which had a set of badly machined rear wheels on it.
With a little bit of thinking Rob managed to use the best of the two wheels to cast me a couple more.
Here they are in the foreground with the roller on the right that was used to make the copies and the one they were for on the left so the Mamod wheels could be replaced.
These rather tatty looking rollers were made in Australian by Renown between 1948 and the late 50s and were only ever made in small numbers and despite their rough looks are now commanding prices up around $1000 Australian for one in good cosmetic condition.
At that price its worth fixing up the rough ones.
And here they are fitted to my roller.
Even better still the thing moves, although it won't be up for any land speed records. :big:
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I don't normally post my toy steam engine restorations on this forum but wanted to post this one to say thanks to Rob for casting the wheels for me.