>Dear Susan, Thank you so much, now you have brought back to my failing memory so much of our discussions and most of your areas interest which are many. I should have remembered the loco was a 3-1/2" gauge as that is the gauge of what my Britannia and GNR Atlanti whoopes some guests have arrived , I'll finish the response later. Anyway you are an inspiration!!
Geoff >Dear Geoff, > >> You were going to build, or were building something, remember? I had >> a lot of the information i retained but my hard drive crashed and >> I lost it all! Was it not 1" or 1-1/2" scale American loco, a >> pacific or hudson? > >I am working (still) on a 4-6-0 in 3.5" gauge - 3/4" scale, plus one or >two other little projects - like this one. > >> You were concerned as to how you were going to get >> it down from your attic workshop when it was finished. > >I have fitted a small electric winch so that should be a little easier. > >> Your ongoing progress reports were very interesting with a lot >> of humour! The research you had done was inspirational, (just as >> the work you have done on the Cricket) - it made me decide that >> such a venture for me was in some fantasy land that I could >> never attain!! > >I am sorry that my enthusiasm for my project has dissuaded you from yours. > >I am good at research and have a distressing habit of wanting to go back >to original source material whenever possible. This is in part prompted >by my awareness of my lack of knowledge and lack of experience as I have >only been involved in model engineering type activities for a few years. > >Self confidence, or rather lack thereof, is a keen motivator "to get it >right" which is at times a hindrance as I can get too obsessed with the >minutiae of detail rather than just being happy with a quicker, easier >and broader brush. I don't rivet count other peoples work, but I do want >to have the right number in my own in case that others might. > >The proof of pudding is however in the making and unfortunately whilst I >produce a loaf of bread twice a week my locomotive production is >somewhat less than that. Small matters like work, homemaking and what >not have conspired to hamper my efforts. I have also spent a lot of the >little time that I have had free in the last couple of years working on >my audio amplifiers (a project that has some commercial potential, >although whether I will be able to realize that is another matter). > >Meanwhile I have realized that I need to develop my basic metalworking >skills as the quality I want for the 4-6-0 is not yet within my reach. >Either that or accept that the first version is to be a look and feel >rather than exact model, in effect a prototype for the super accurate >version. Again it is all to easy to get buried in the detail and not >make anything. > >Also an important part of all this is the social aspect and having a >simpler locomotive that I can build (in perhaps not quite such exacting >detail) in a short(er) time and run on club or home tracks is why I am >distracted from the "main" project. > >The Byers gives me a "simple" locomotive in a large enough scale that I >can realistically expect to be able to build it to an adequate standard >(in my eyes) and be interesting but without excessive quantity of small >scale detail. As a project locomotive I also feel that I can substitute >near scale alternatives like the PM Research bottle engines and also >things like sight gauges and steam fittings which are close enough to >what was fitted. > >Having the photograph has of course upped the ante a bit as there is >much that I can now see as fact rather than just interpolate from >contemporary practice or description. This is dangerous as it threatens >to shift the project's focus away from being a simple locomotive, which >is after all the idea on which the project is founded. > >Making a small scale model of the model is again a side step, but >hopefully one that will allow me to sort out many of the mechanical >issues that I still face with the big sister. CAD drawings are easy to >knock up with a bit of practice, but turning even 3D rendered glossy >images into actual fact comes somewhat harder. > >> I will be seeing Michael O'Rourke shortly, I'll show him your CAD >> and ask him to modify my Cricket accordingly - that is unlikely as he >> has retired, so I shall send it to you for the mods!!! > >Happy to look at it, but I would have to advise you that I am >distressingly slow at progressing these projects. > >> With full confidence in you and your ability. >> >> Geoff. > >Thank you. > >Best wishes, >Susan. > > >_______________________________________________ >SSLiveSteam mailing list >Send messages: [email protected] >Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam >Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
