The published figures in Aster's manual.
Lee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
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Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 9:51 AM
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Subject: Nightmare Units
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 [EMAIL
I posted a translation table earlier, but for convenience, I'll do it again.
http://www.wctc.net/~wallin/convert/cvert.html
It goes right with what you say here.
Lee
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Behalf Of Clark Lord
Sent: Monday, February 14,
Hello all,
Sunday on march 19th 2000 a spring steamup will by held at the National motorcar
museum in Raamsdonksveer. Between the old-timers model engine
ers from Europe will demonstrate their models. This ranges from locomotives to
stationary machines and everything in between. All in various
Friends,
After some correspondence with Vance Bass and with his kind help getting
over some initial problems with my Ruby, I'm on the list. Ruby is my second
live steam locomotive - my first is a scratch built "dickins" based on the
articles that appeared in "Live Steam" back in 1976. Some
In a message dated 2/14/00 5:16:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Beg your pardon Kg is a weight unit in metric and therefore convertable to
pounds
Sorry, Mass should not be confused with weight. Mass and weight are two
different quantities. Mass is a term used to
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/14/00 5:16:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Beg your pardon Kg is a weight unit in metric and therefore convertable to
pounds
Sorry, Mass should not be confused with weight. Mass and weight
I live in Guildford, England, 59ys old recently retired. Got hooked on
playing trains some 20-25 ys.ago as a result of taking my two boys to
preserved railways etc. They grew up, I suffered reversion.
Interests, Brit built locos for overseas, Dutch steam trams, US locos-
small stuff, partic
I like learning, and even more if there exists a little flair.
Thanks to everyone for sharing. Conversion of units and the concepts of what each
measure is actually describing is often a pain.
I am taking a community college course on cabinet making. Despite having used tools
for decades, I am
Well that explains it. I live on the WINDWARD side of Oahu.
I take full responsibility for the mess here on this issue. (heh heh)
Now... If we're done with this bar room brawl over weight vs mass vs metric
vs imperial vs miller vs bud, can somebody PLEASE tell me why my little 13
POUND Loco
In a message dated 2/15/00 1:47:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, Mass should not be confused with weight. Mass and weight are two
different quantities.
I do not want to seem to be a smart-ass but, sir, according to the
Machinery's Handbook 21st
Now... If we're done with this bar room brawl
Is that a pun on the discussion - "bar" room brawl?
can somebody PLEASE tell me why my little 13
POUND Loco requires at least 30 Pounds of steam pressure to even move, while
200 Pounds of steam will drive a multi-ton critter?
Your 9/16 diameter
A couple weeks ago Michael Martin asked for reactions to the BAGRS
project loco, and I wrote to him with a couple of my concerns about the
BAGRS loco as well as with a request for sources of information for rank
beginners in small-scale live steam. Michael responded to me with a most
At 03:01 PM 00-02-15 -0500, Bill Keuhsel wrote:
Sorry again, but you are wrong. I will quote to you from "Fundamentals of
Physics" by Halliday Resnick, third edition, John Wiley publisher, page 86.
This is a text used in engineering schools, and Resnick was/is a professor at
Please don't.
Geoff,
I hope your not holding me too responsible for getting too technical since I
started this, but there really was a point I wanted to address and learn
about.
Namely,
If I start out to design a model Loco, what formula (if there is one), can I
apply to calculate how much steam pressure I
Geoff, Lee and all others. My apologies I am the Dumb A## that stirred up
this hornets nest. Partially trying to be funny and partially trying to
figure out what the pressure in metric converted to english units. I should
have kept my trap shut (or fingers off the keyboard).
I am just
In a message dated 2/15/00 6:20:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Geoff, Lee and all others. My apologies I am the Dumb A## that stirred up
this hornets nest. Partially trying to be funny and partially trying to
figure out what the pressure in metric converted to
O.K.Clark;
Thanks for the info. I will call them and get the gauge. I measured the
glass and according to Sulphur Springs the 6mm glass is what we'll need. The
fun part comes in identifying the threads on the fitting. The assembly
manual calls it 8-3. This is further identified as an M6
Go do three Hail Mary's and you're forgiven.
Jim
Lee,
Get your calculator out and figure the thrust on the surface of a 1/2 dia
piston at 30 psi and the thrust on a 18 inch dia piston at 200 psi and I
think that should answer it for you.
Jim McDavid
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From: Lee Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Did you forget an apostrostroke ( ' )in that word?
Amen, Peter!
Geoff.
At 03:01 PM 00-02-15 -0500, Bill Keuhsel wrote:
Sorry again, but you are wrong. I will quote to you from "Fundamentals of
Physics" by Halliday Resnick, third edition, John Wiley publisher, page
86.
This is a text used in engineering schools, and Resnick was/is a
I am not, and never have, considered myself a modeler or a miniaturist. I
feel that the level of frustration produced by such endeavors are not worth
the effort -- as far as I am concerned, there never has been and never will
be, a true "scale model" of anything UNTIL you come up with a way to
Yeah I'm not sure there were EVER any apologies necessary here for any of
this.
The problem with the d*mn computer communication is that you can't see the
look on someone's face or hear the tone of their voice. (Always been one of
it's BIGGEST shortcomings in the "chat" area.)
So to iterate...
As a newbie live steamer, neither of them translate to anything meaningful
to me since I can't see how 200lbs of steam pressure against a cylinder face
of x inches in diameter can move a multi-ton Loco and it's consist, but it
does somehow.
Remember that is 200 PSI. There is 200 pounds
I hear you. Neither am I and I never will be. But it won't stop me from
playing with toy steam trains.
It's a "Catch 22". If you have a sparkie model steam loco, you can detail it
to the nines but it's still not a steam engine anyway you look at it. On the
other hand, with a model steam engine,
Speaking of units when I was surfing the web I ran across somewhere that
a modeler had built a N guage live steam engine that really runs. Honest, I
am an old sailor and old sailors never lie!! Really!
"Phil. Paskos" wrote:
//snip//
By the way Clark, How does your burner fit in the boiler? Mine
is a bit looser than I'd like.
Mine is snug. You can tighten it some by taping close the copper flange
on the boiler tube. I have several projects ahead of the K4 fix so it
will be a time before I
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