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1st April 2014, 09:26 AM #1GOLD MEMBER
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1/5th Scale Peny-Darren 1804 Locomotive
Hi All,
For my new project I will be building a replica of Richard Trevithick's 1804 Steam locomotive. It was run at Peny-Darren - thus the name, on 14th February 1804. It ran on cast flange rails (no flanged wheels). It was the first train to tow a load - 5 trams of coal and 70 men. However the trip didn't last long a the smoke stack hit a low bridge nd was seriously damaged. I am building this because I am a bit of a train fanatic. I have found a fair bit of detail, unlike my original plan to build Stephenson's rocket - not much detail available. This locomotive does look a bit weird and I think will provide a great challenge. I am building it 1/5th scale and will provide quite a number of posts of my Work in Progress. Some photos of the loco are shown below.
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Keith
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1st April 2014, 10:44 AM #2
Hi Keith, I will be watching with great interest. The 1/5 scale , how big are the wheels, and diameter of the fly wheel. John.
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1st April 2014, 11:06 AM #3Skwair2rownd
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Yum!!!!!
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1st April 2014, 12:02 PM #4
lurker.gif I'll be watching and learning. Thanks for doing it.
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Hi Guys,
The drive wheel gears on my model being 1/5 scale are 150mm diameter. The main drive gear (centre gear) is 250mm diameter. The locomotive wheels are 225mm diameter. The flywheel is 480mm diameter. The boiler is 250mm diameter X 320mm long. The drive cylinder is 35mm diameter X 175mm long. The smoke stack is 45mm diameter X 425mm tall. I have made up some scale plans of the gears and flywheel and will be gluing these onto the timber - using pine - and will then cut out each individual gear tooth using coping saw (a lenghy task). I need to put the pine through the thicknesser to bring it down to 12.5mm which is the scale width of the gears. I am really looking forward to this project as it something out of the ordinary. Photo of my plans are below.
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Keith
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1st April 2014, 04:14 PM #6
I'm drooling at the mouth already, you certainly know how to hook us on your work
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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1st April 2014, 04:16 PM #7
Keith , I have sent you a PM. John.
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1st April 2014, 04:59 PM #8
I nearly missed the train.....
Wow Keith, you had just started talking about this project on the end of the beaut Ford Ute you built and here it's up and running already. Cheers, crowie
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1st April 2014, 07:09 PM #11Skwair2rownd
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Keith, do those gears have an epicyclic profil or some other sort of profile?
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Artme,
Have tried to get more info and research on differing gear tooth profile used in early 1800's but no real success.
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Keith
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2nd April 2014, 08:46 AM #15
Hey Keith I was just having a snoop around and found a ripper of a book.
Life of Richard Trevithick with an account of his inventions, published in 1872.
It's over eight hundred pages and can downloaded for free on Google Books.
Thought it may be of some help.
Trevor.
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