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VOL 34 No.3
NOV 2003 THE MODELLER
The snow isn’t far from arriving – as you may sense if you have been listening to the forecasts recently, or have stuck your nose out of the front door. So come out from your early hibernation in your basement shop and join us for the November meeting. See you there on
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2003 AT 8.00pm, at
Don’t forget to pay your $2.00 parking fee and to leave the ticket on the dash !
IT’S OUR 70th YEAR – THE FIRST MEETING WAS ON 8 NOVEMBER 1933!
EVENING’S PROGRAM, YOU MAY EXPECT TO HEAR FROM:
BILL HUXHOLD will talk about his process for making piston rings,
PAUL STEARNS on wind power
ART GORDON has finished a Ball Turning Attachment that he finds works very well and he’ll explain its construction,
ROBERT WYSS has been doing some “Solo Machine Moving” – he’ll tell how.
DON
CARR has been using a Back Spotfacing Tool – on the cylinders for his 3
½” gauge
DAVE SAGE has completed his latest engine – a Hit & Miss Fairbanks Morse Engine. Dave will explain his methods for its construction,
JERRY REED a talk – Then and Now – a discussion on Tool Making
JIM SMALL will give a slide show tour of his shop,
RICHARD TROUNCE has more to add on Superheaters = a follow on from Dave Powell’s talk from the last meeting,
ALEX BARRIE – has recently finished a Thread Dial Indicator for his Myford lathe – he’ll explain what he did
IF
YOU HAVE A PROJECT YOU ARE CURRENTLY
WHAT’S UP & COMING : MEETING DATES 14 Nov, 12 Dec, 9 Jan 2004, 13 Feb, 12 Mar, 9 April, 14 May, 11 June
HOBBY SHOW – 7, 8 and 9 November – mark your calendar, and think about bringing something to show – we have approximately 70 feet of tables to fill - help celebrate TSME’s 70th year. Move in Thursday evening 6 November after about 6pm.
ALLAN GOULDBURN, our treasurer, has recently returned to his home after a spate in hospital. If you wish to give Allan a call to wish him well, please do so.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – THE OCTOBER MEETING
STEVE
LILLY showed his recently completed 1/8 scale 2 cylinder Reed Hot Tube Engine
that runs on propane which is brought into the small cylinder, compressed then
is transferred to the larger cylinder where the gas is ignited to power the
engine. The full size engines were used in the
DAVE BOWES brought in his Electronic Ignition engine speed boat and spoke of his endeavours to obtain higher performance from his engine – and ideas that didn’t work! Some of the problems involved the ignition system – they don’t always fire! Also he had many tries at increasing the compression ratio. Dave explained the developments he has been through so far to improve the roundness of piston rings and feels that he is finally reaching an acceptable method.
BERT
DeKAT showed slides from his visit to this year’s show of Hot air
Stirling Engines near
JIM
SMALL showed some more video of operating his 7 ½” Lucky 7 locomotive in
the
ALAINE LABBE brought in a large format bellows type Monorail View Camera he had made almost entirely in oak. It is adjustable for focusing. Alaine managed to find a decent lens through eBay. He also explained how he has made the rack and pinion for his next camera from threaded rod (for the rack) and cut his own pinion using a tap as a cutter with a pitch equal to the rod threads. Alaine also made his own bellows and explained how this was done – commercial bellows being rather expensive!
DAVE POWELL had brought in the boiler for his “other” Caribou, which is fitted with superheaters. Dave explained the origin of superheating in locomotives and then went onto tell of the two main types generally used in live steam locomotives – parallel tube and co-axial tube. For most locos so fitted, the superheater is fitted downstream of the regulator meaning that when steam is shut off the superheater is dry of steam but which gives a good surge of superheated steam on starting.
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WANTED: by DON CARR. Parallel Machine Files for an Oliver Die Filer. The files would be 8” overall.
WELCOME NEW MEMBER: GRANT FAIR