Hi new here but have been lurking for months, Must say I enjoy the site, And am very impressed with the overall skill shown by everyone here.
I happen to own a set of unmachined castings and drawings I bought from england 10-12 yrs. ago, For the Sanderson beam engine. My nephew and I would like to build two of these engines by using these drawings but want to increase the size from 1/12 scale to 1/9 scale. (He has a lathe more than large enough for the flywheel). The major castings would be replicated and machined from bar stock cast iron, all polished metal from stainless steel, I know, I know lot's of work, No doubt I'll be asking lot's of questions here about stress re leaving cast iron.
Anyway I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any info on this engine? I've spent a couple of hrs. on the internet without much to show for it, More for personal information than anything were looking for patent drawings/pictures of surviving engines,(full scale) and /or information on the man who built it.
All I know for sure is that it was built by a ROBERT SANDERSON in 1846 in/of? Glasgow, the drawings for the model were done by H. CLARKSON in 1986. I'm thanking anyone and everyone for ANY information they could provide.
Pete
I happen to own a set of unmachined castings and drawings I bought from england 10-12 yrs. ago, For the Sanderson beam engine. My nephew and I would like to build two of these engines by using these drawings but want to increase the size from 1/12 scale to 1/9 scale. (He has a lathe more than large enough for the flywheel). The major castings would be replicated and machined from bar stock cast iron, all polished metal from stainless steel, I know, I know lot's of work, No doubt I'll be asking lot's of questions here about stress re leaving cast iron.
Anyway I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any info on this engine? I've spent a couple of hrs. on the internet without much to show for it, More for personal information than anything were looking for patent drawings/pictures of surviving engines,(full scale) and /or information on the man who built it.
All I know for sure is that it was built by a ROBERT SANDERSON in 1846 in/of? Glasgow, the drawings for the model were done by H. CLARKSON in 1986. I'm thanking anyone and everyone for ANY information they could provide.
Pete