A Pair of Rear Wheels
A pair of rear wheels for my 1/20th scale traction engine. This all started with me machining the mild steel rim blanks from 4 inch diameter round 1 inch thick disc. The machining required in [more…]
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Rear Wheel Spokes
The rear wheels of my miniature traction engine needed 32 spokes in total. This is quite a task and so thought I would take you through my process. I started the rear wheel spokes by [more…]
Rear Wheel Hubs
The rear wheel hubs for the miniature traction engine that I’m making need to be indexed with eight spokes each side of a single wheel. The trick is that the spokes are out of “phase” and [more…]
Miniature Traction Engine Plan & Kit
I’ve gradually been drawing up the plans and making parts and so I thought I would pull it all together for a photograph and get a status of the Miniature Traction Engine Plan & Kit. [more…]
Rear Wheel Tread Pair
My first go at machining a rear wheel tread pair for my miniature traction engine was not that successful. That meant I needed another go. The rear wheel tread pair are handed and the tread [more…]
Rear Wheel Treads
The rear wheel treads on these 97mm diameter wheels are just 0.75mm thick and so after some consideration were designed as a machined feature rather than a riveted tread. The rim itself is just 2.75mm [more…]
Rear Wheel Rim Blanks
The wheel rims for my miniature Burrell traction engine. I originally wanted to buy some 4 inch diameter steel pipe with a thick 0.5 inch wall, but I just could not find any and so [more…]
Traction Engine Crankshaft Clearance
This engine is all based on a Burrell drawing of one of their engines and as such I’m having to make up a lot of the detail. This detail needs to both look right and [more…]
Smokebox for Miniature Traction Engine
Not sure how this was one of the first things I made for this engine as it is one of the most intricate parts as there so may curved surfaces on the smokebox for Miniature [more…]
Steam Boiler Angle
I’ve been looking into the angle of the steam boiler on a traction engine relative to the surface that the engine sits on. This angle is always biased downwards towards the firebox. Having measured a [more…]