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

 

The next meeting will take place at the Toronto Aerospace Museum, Downsview, starting at 7.30pm

 

 

IN THIS EVENING’S PROGRAM YOU MAY EXPECT TO HEAR FROM:

             

ROGER COLE has a 5 minute video of Mosquito bombers being built in Australia

 

RON MELVIN AND BILL HUXHOLD will conclude their presentation on the Vermont Precision Museum show

 

BERT DE KAT has some photos taken at the Cabin Fever show

 

DON CARR will talk on how he is progressing on the Hudson

 

DAVE POWELL has some TSME stories!

 

Note: Presentations by members of the executive may be postponed depending on the amount of  program items.

 

Club members would like to see completed models, or any in progress of being built and that have not previously been shown. You need not talk about the item, if you prefer not to. Just let’s have a look at them!

 

MEETING DATES:  Mar 13, April 10, May 8, Jun 12 @ Toronto Aerospace Museum, 65 Carl Hall Road, Downsview M3K 2E1. There is a TTC bus that stops right outside the museum #101 from Downsview Subway Station.

 

LIBRARY  The books are not located at the Museum. However, a list of the books is on the TSME website. Call  Gerald Gardiner with your request and he will arrange to have your requested book(s) at the next meeting. The nominal charge per book is still $0.25!

 

What’s up and coming:

The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology has a program during the March School break (March 14 – 22, 11am – 4pm). “We’re putting the spotlight on locomotives this March break. Hands on activities and crafts about locomotives will be available all week.”  Phone: 905 564-2424 ext 4797

 

GENERAL:  Miniature Power Products, Woodstock, Ont. has been sold. It is now handled by Dave Ortlieb of Canadian Model Engineering, Elmira, Ont. . E-mail: cmodele@hotmail.com .

Web: http://cmodele.com/ . Thanks to Garth Statham for this information.

 

 

 

February, 2009 MEETING - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

 

 

Eric Motton announced more details of the upcoming International Model Steam Meet. It will be held on July 11 and 12, 2009, at the RHLS location. He asked for volunteers to help with visitors from out of town.

 

 

Charles Foster brought in a ¼ scale model of a 5HP Galloway Hit and Miss engine. He obtained the castings from Richard Shelley, Mannheim, Pa. It is almost finished with final tuning still to be done. We look forward to seeing it running.

 

 

Gerry Reed showed photos of a Horizontal/Vertical milling machine he bought. After partial dismantling and wrestling it into the basement, he stripped the rest of the components down to check for wear etc. A central oiler on it had never been hooked up so he made all the bits and pieces required. As well many surfaces were mis-aligned requiring some remachining. He has rigged up a low voltage control box in the front with relays to control the various line voltage items, including the two drive motors.

 

 

Jim Bugg is building a 3” model of a Case Traction Engine. He showed progress to date on the flywheel, cylinder and crosshead. He showed photos of some of the machining operations and how the flywheel was just able to fit on his lathe. He mentioned that he didn’t bring the steel boiler in as it is too heavy!

 

 

Dave Oulton demonstrated a Stuart #9 horizontal engine that he purchased partially finished. Many items had to be remachined/aligned to get it running. Now it will run on mouth pressure. This is his acceptance criteria for a well made unit, though he took some ribbing about the lack of paint!

 

 

Eric Kingsley brought in a model of a Mosquito Bomber that he made out of solid aluminum about 15 years ago. All the surfaces were filed. He has also done the same with a Spitfire, a Lancaster and a Meteor. He mentioned that he had worked on all these planes during his career. He explained how he went about cutting and filing the components, and the final assembly.

 

 

Roy Elliott brought in some components of a 4 cylinder DOHC engine he is building. It has an 11/32” bore and stroke with cast iron pistons and liners (which are pressed into the aluminum block). He explained how he made the valves and valve seats and then lapped them in situ.

 

 

Bill Huxhold is working on a new engine from plans but without using available castings! It is the ME Beam engine. The beam was built up from brass (20 items) and soldered together. Afterwards it was sandblasted to give an “as cast” appearance. He described how he used a form tool to make the “entasis” sections (I looked it up) on the column and how he remedied a broken component that had been milled out of 1144.  

 

 

 

 

ITEMS FOR SALE, WANTED OR SWAPS:  

 

WANTED: Any castings or partial completed model steam engines. David Oulton,

 

GERRY REED is interested in finding any member who has access to a pantograph engraver. He would like to engrave all the brass plates on his mill as regards degree settings and indicator marks. 

 

DON CARR, the TSME Archivist, would like to hear from members who were :”Official Photographers” at

meetings and/or events. He is especially interested in the 2000 – 2008 period. He would like to borrow the

photos so they can be put on the TSME Historical Photos and Pages section of the Website.

 

 

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

Geoff Kingma  

 

PICTURES FOR THE TSME WEBSITE If you have picture/s that you think are good for posting on the TSME website, please email to KIM TYSON at webmaster@tsme.ca

 

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