THE TORONTO SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS

 

 

WEB SITE: www.tsme.ca  Pictures from the meetings will be posted with The Modeller that is posted on this website       

TSME CHAT LINE: tsme@yahoogroups.com

 

It’s finally looking more like summer is on its way. So it’s time to think about prepping your models for completion or better still, operation, so that you can prove them out, after all that hard work you put in over the winter! Continue with the modeling scene at our next meeting:

 

FOR THE EVENING’S PROGRAM, YOU CAN EXPECT TO BE HEARING FROM:

 

GEOFF KINGMA – will describe how he set up his lathe

 

GERRY REED – is going to outline files and filing techniques

 

RICHARD TROUNCE – part 2, his talk on electric motors

 

RON MELVIN – a pictorial report on NAMES

 

And if you have a project you are currently working on, or recently finished – please bring it along and we will do all we can to fit your item into the program.

 

   GONE MISSING -  AT THE SEPTEMBER 2006 MEETING:

A Centre Punch and Wrench, bundled together with masking tape. Please let JOHN CHAPPELL know if you found these. john.chappell@rogers.com

 

   WHAT’S UP & COMING : MEETING DATES   11 May, 8 June  @ 1001 Queen Street.

 

BOATS IN THE PARK: 26, 27 May, at the HAMILTON MUSEUM OF STEAM AND TECHNOLOGY 10.00am to 4.00pm. The Confederation of Marine Modelers and friends demonstrate radio-controlled model boats of all kinds. Prepare to try your hands at this hobby.

GOLDEN HORSESHOE LIVE STEAMER DAYS: 26, 27 May, 24 June, 1 July, 29 July, 19 August, 9 & 30 Sept., at The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology. 11.00am to 4.00pm.

OMLET: Ontario Model Locomotive Trials. 24 June, at The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology. 11.00am to 4.00pm.

TSME EXTENDED INTERMISSION Set for Saturday 14 July (rain day, Sunday 15), again, at the Richmond Hill Live Steamers track on McCowan Road. So plan ahead – and plan to come!

 

TSME LAPEL PINS AND CRESTS: Only sold at the meetings

Treasurer, KEVIN CLOSE, has these available: One for $3.00, two for $5.00 - BUY YOURS NOW!

 

APRIL 2007 MEETING - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT,  

DAVE BOWES showed his EVIC engine recently fitted with electric start. The starter runs up the engine to about 2800rpm before ignition. Dave demonstrated the engine started with its starter. The drive to the engine is by a toothed belt. Dave then went on to talk about progress on his Silver Bullet cylinder engine to Bob Shaw’s design which he had brought in to show. Castings had come from a visit to Cabin Fever. The crankshaft is now in the engine, and Dave explained his process for machining the crank shaft complete with counterbalance weights, from a single 1 ½” dia. Stressproof bar. He also tried machining the 2 halves of the big end bearings with the 2 halves crazy glued together which was not successful, and finally had to resort to soldering the halves together.

RON MELVIN showed a chainsaw engined car he built with friends, when he was 16 years old, with only hand tools. The car is about 24” long by 16” wide. He used to run it in the Yorkdale Shopping Plaza parking lot when activities like this were doable! The car was radio controlled and went like crazy! Interestingly, the wheels were made from promotional rubber tired ashtrays – the sight of which is reputed to have started the whole project.

BERT deKat showed a copy of a full size Wobble Yoke Assembly driven by an electric motor, the prototypes of which are driven by a commercial Whisper Gen engine (I hope I have this correct! Ed.). Bert also showed his

“Intriguing Object” the plans of which came from Model Engineer Magazine of March 2007. In all 3 drawing

projections (X, Y, and Z axis) the view is identical – a circle with 2 diameters at right angles. Bert explained how he machined this object in Perspex. Bert also showed a few pictures from the 2007 Cabin Fever show.

GERRY REED brought in an unknown device he had been given by a teacher at Durham College. He went home without anyone identifying what it was used for.

BILL HUXHOLD showed his Mark 1 and 2 (very small) Turbine Generators in operation, running on about 60psi air. The generators produce about 1/8 amps AC and convert this to DC, that lit up a few LED lights

DAVE POWELL brought in the running chassis of a 3 ½” Gauge Hudson locomotive he is fixing up. Apparently the design of the original model was by a Jack Hart and finished off by Hoffman in the early 1970’s to 80’s. Dave’s locomotive came form Sarnia, and has required much work to get it running. Dave has reamed the valve chests (piston valves) and had to rework the wheels as the conrods were not fitted correctly. It had obviously not been very well built initially. It has a completed steel boiler, cast iron cylinders and piston rings. The chassis was demonstrated running smoothly on air.

 

FOR SALE, WANTS OR SWAPS:

 

FOR SALE: by RICHARD TROUNCE. A Calcomp Pen Plotter #1043. Takes E size drawings (34” x 44”). Has an RS 232 connection. 8 Pen carousel. Still works well. Looking for a good home. About 5ft long x 4ft high and 2ft deep.

FOR SALE: by REMO COSOLO. Camper Van, 3.8litre Chrysler V8. 35,000miles only after an engine rebuild. AM-FM radio, TV rotary antenna. 8ft high inside raised roof. Spare gas tank, 5 Ziebart coats and never used on salted roads. Excellent condition. Good to drive away and use as is. $9,000.00 or best offer.

FOR SALE by GARTH STATHAM. Model Engineer Magazines for sale. Garth may have your requirements – check your needs! Mainly vols. 133 to 191 (some already sold), and some earlier ones, $10.00 to $15.00 per volume, depending on number of issues per volume.

WANTED: by DON CARR. Don is looking for the current phone number or address of

Howard Hunt (formerly of Thornhill, Ontario) who is the son of P. Eldon Hunt. Hunt senior worked with Alex

 Josslin and LBSC. Eldon Hunt produced a number of North American locomotive designs in 2-1/2" and

3-1/2" gauge in the 30's and 40's. These designs are thought to be lost but Don is almost certain that they

are with Howard Hunt, his son. It was

from Howard Hunt that Don obtained the Josslin Hudson drawings about 15 years ago through a TSME

member (Don can't remember who, though).

WANTED: by BOB McDONALD. Any Model Engineering books or magazines.

WANTED: by RICHARD TROUNCE. To borrow, and copy: Model Railroader Magazine of December 1954 – he is interested in an article on the Atlantic locomotive. Also, Richard is looking for a 16mm film reel to acquire.

WANTED: by GERRY REED.  3”, 4” and 5” pulleys to fit “A” belt. Total pulley cluster width

about 1 7/8”. Bore not important.

 

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:

HELMUT HEITZINGER: 22 West Park Blvd., Vandorf, Ontario L0H 1G0. Email: helmut@wtd.ca

RAMBOD LARIJANI: 43 Brickyard Way, Brampton, Ontario L6V 4L6. Email: rambod.larijani@pwc.ca

 

MEMBERSHIP LIST 2006/7 CHANGES/CORRECTIONS:

 

DAVID OULTON Change email to: davidoulton@sympatico.ca

JOHN COOP                   Change email to: betws@shaw.ca

 

MEMBERSHIP LIST –  FOR CORRECTIONS / CHANGES PLEASE EMAIL or PHONE:

 

Dave Bray, email: davybray@aci.on.ca or membership@tsme.ca  

 

PICTURES FOR THE TSME WEBSITE

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