Hi Keith, Don't know whether I qualify for this accolade. I will leave you to decide. I served my time as an engineering apprentice at the Eastleigh Locomotive...
Alan Bailey
awbailey@...
May 2, 2008 1:17 am
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Gents, At the risk of being deprived of the 'post' I held so dearly (that of 'Kurt's satellite'....and which I held so affectionately,.......and may...
Gents, Like the silence following the cessation of the entire output of a single-engined aircraft's doover, the silence following this missive's content, is...
Gday Pete / All The 1/400 ratio applys to the cross sectional area / swept area. My method, easy. Cross sect. I.D. squared x 0.7854 divided by Swept Area....
TRAINS.com has a line some 19 pages long on whether steam can make a comeback. The first eight or nine are rather superfical and simplistic, but afterwards it...
Hi Wm. Went to the site, but found no point of entre to the material you speak of. Further directions required ! Thanks. Dave Grover ... From: william wendt ...
David Grover
eddyston@...
May 2, 2008 6:09 pm
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That's what I mean. It is not an easy site to navigate or search. You might have to go through a several page table of contents. (and i returned the original...
It would be a good idea to cite the EXACT thread name as given on the forum, and whether this is the "trains.com" forum or the "trainsmagazine.com" one. You...
... Could be either of two thing. 1. you are forwarding messages as attachments (Verbatim) or 2. your eMail client options are not set to post on plain text. ...
the home page shows a couple dozen discussion groups for the different magazines. TRAINS has a locomotive line, but, for whatever reason, the steam comeback...
Hi Alan, Good to hear from another BR ex-apprentice. I was at Swindon in the early 1950s and following national service in the RAF worked in the drawing office...
... 1921, " a wee contraption of my own." This was replaced by Stephenson for the inside cylinder where the lead decreased as the engine was notched up. ... ...
Hi Bob, Yes, those "summer jollies" were very enjoyable. Technicaly, they were for the purpose of "learning from other technologies", and we used to get in to...
Alan Bailey
awbailey@...
May 3, 2008 11:05 am
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Thanks very much for directing us to this forum guys! - this is a very interesting discussion. I see hat you mean about the first few pages... I found it under...
... Col, If you look up the Files section, under the title: - '58 Rack Gear.jpg', is a quite well done pictorial view of Harold Young's rack and pinion...
... If object was to eliminate whip in 2:1 lever at high rpm, immediate question that occurs: What about torsion spring effect in drive shaft? Nice long steel...
Col et al I presume that if the drive to the valve was rotational, as in Caprotti / poppet type set ups, you could achieve driving multiple valve events from ...
Ian Pascoe
softy.lofty.ilp@...
May 4, 2008 11:09 am
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... page.......original ... double/reversed, ... from ... rack ... applied to ... [OP ****] I beleve that was the intention, primarily, and to amelioriate the...
Ian, Indeed! An elegant solution! And considering each gear requires 'only a shaft', then why not three shafts, driving three gears? Cheers, Oz Pete ... ...
... machine locomotive". It is in ... http://users.fini.net/~bersano/francais-french/Ed_Sauvage-La_machine_locomotive/ ... Chapelon collaborated are too...
... Caprotti / ... from ... across to ... movement ... angle of ... Hellow Ian, Don't think you've missed anything, though this would only work with the later,...
- ... Hellow Pete, my understanding is that failure (overheating) of the centre big end (marine type, of neccesity) occured when steam was suddenly shut off at...
... Bonsoir Claude, What a wonderful book, the draughtmanship is superb, I doubt you could find any better, anywhere, for technical drawings...........with my ...
Hello Colin; ... <blush> Thanks Colin. The person to be thanked is in fact Patrick "DGRR" who scanned and posted on the french newsfeed "zoo-logique" the...
My pleasure Arno. Cheers, Claude clbersano@... ... From: Arno Martens To: steam_tech@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:44 PM Subject: Re:...
... <afternoonslow@...> wrote (OP this time thusly [OP ***]): [Col] > > > incidently, Gresley provided centre cylinder with increased lap ... done ... high- ...
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