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Model Engineering: A Guide to Model Workshop Practice
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First published April 2, 2010
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July 17, 2019
Originally published in 1915, this book deals with setting a very simple shop to build steam or electrically powered locomotives with a token mention of a couple of unrelated projects. Its 407 pages has 85 small photos and 724 line drawings. There are more modern books that cover these same topics with greater detail.
The machine tool setup is primitive, it shows a treadle operated plain lathe, very much like a wood lathe but for metal and possibly a hand operated shaper. The author does add that for those who want to splurge you could buy an electric motor or a steam engine to supply power for your tools but no directions are included for this extravagance. Machining using turning tools is illustrated, I've used these techniques for decorative brass bits and the use of chucks and other lathe bits is shown.
The following 2/3rds of the book deals with building working model steam locomotives, details on cylinders, valves and other assemblies are included, but you would need a set of plans for whatever locomotive you wanted build, this book doesn't have an entire plan included. There's a short chapter on a very primitive internal combustion engine that I think are called 'flame lickers', it doesn't use a spark for ignition. There's also a historically interesting chapter on electrically powered model locomotives.
It's amazing what was done with these simple tools.
Although this book is long out of copyright, I couldn't find a PDF online, my edition is a Lindsay Publication reprint.
The machine tool setup is primitive, it shows a treadle operated plain lathe, very much like a wood lathe but for metal and possibly a hand operated shaper. The author does add that for those who want to splurge you could buy an electric motor or a steam engine to supply power for your tools but no directions are included for this extravagance. Machining using turning tools is illustrated, I've used these techniques for decorative brass bits and the use of chucks and other lathe bits is shown.
The following 2/3rds of the book deals with building working model steam locomotives, details on cylinders, valves and other assemblies are included, but you would need a set of plans for whatever locomotive you wanted build, this book doesn't have an entire plan included. There's a short chapter on a very primitive internal combustion engine that I think are called 'flame lickers', it doesn't use a spark for ignition. There's also a historically interesting chapter on electrically powered model locomotives.
It's amazing what was done with these simple tools.
Although this book is long out of copyright, I couldn't find a PDF online, my edition is a Lindsay Publication reprint.
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