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Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: rowehillmaster
Date: March 23, 2015, 4:20 pm
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I have been going up to the Golden Valley Light Railway's
workshops since November on a Saturday and helping out on
maintenance and restoration projects, but this weekend I was
handed a lump of steel and it was suggested that I "make a new
one, you know about lathes and things", so I bit the bullet,
discussed a method of manufacture with the chief engineer (who
normally does all the machining) and of I went on this old
beauty -:
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.... and made this new bearing box cover spring cap -:
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(That's the first proper thing I have made in 30 odd years since
being made redundant less than a year out of tec and coming to
where I work now)
:smilewide:
.... it is sort of like a mushroom and locates the spring and
clamps down onto the bearing box half, allowing the cover to be
rotated against the spring pressure. It is for one of a pair of
1910 Polish bogeys that are being restored to go under a
new/second hand carriage that the Railway have just bought.
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: Sunny Jim
Date: March 23, 2015, 4:35 pm
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Technically it is a third hand carriage as the underframe was
originally Isle of Man Railway F60, which carried a pair of
original four wheeled coach bodies. The underframes were bought
by the Festiniog Railway after the bodies were scrapped, and the
current bodies were erected on them. These are now being
superseded at the FR and have been deemed surplus so sold to the
GVLR! The current one has come without bogies, so the said
Polish ones are being used.
I was in the Historic Carriage and Wagon shed and made some
captive studs for some LMS axlebox covers, levelled the
suspension of one of our coaches and started hanging brake shoes
off it! There is something quite satisfying about making a bit
that cannot be bought off the shelf.
Sunny Jim
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: rowehillmaster
Date: March 24, 2015, 7:16 am
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On family visits, maybe 10 odd years ago I used to see a S2 Land
Rover parked up by the Historic Carriage and Wagon shed - navy
blue I think, was that you? it was a case of "Daddy would like
one of them, in his dreams !" then, but little did she know then
that I would end up having one !, and working at the railway!
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: Peter de Dawg
Date: March 24, 2015, 1:41 pm
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Volunteering like that is great as you get yer mitts on some
cool stuff that you'd otherwise never get to , I did some time
at an old Victorian pumping station years ago, some of the old
steam ( and later fitted diesel ) kit there was monumental !
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: Sunny Jim
Date: March 24, 2015, 6:09 pm
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> On family visits, maybe 10 odd years ago I used to see a S2
Land Rover parked up by the Historic Carriage and Wagon shed -
navy blue I think, was that you?
--- End Quote ---
Yes, that would be mine! 10 years ago it was actually Rover
Admiralty Blue, a colour used on P5 Rovers around 1970. It is
now BS Royal Blue that is a little lighter, but also easier to
get mixed. It was originally green, but had been 3 different
shades over the years before I got it in 1978 - I first painted
it blue in 1980.
The Vintage Train is down to our department.
See here:
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The screw jacks are Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and date to
about 1910, with a 10 ton capacity so four of them will lift a
whole coach in a very heterosexual way!
Sunny Jim
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: divie
Date: March 29, 2015, 1:16 pm
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Love the old South Bend lathe, I had one for 45 years before
replacing it a couple of years ago with something a bit bigger.
Mine was a war finish job made in 1942 model "Heavy Ten" from
memory.
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: rowehillmaster
Date: May 2, 2015, 2:55 pm
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- but today was even better, when I spent a couple of hours
digging, spreading and scraping out builders rubble to make a
pathway for plant access, in preparation for some new works, in
this oldun -
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:smilewide: :smilewide: :smilewide:
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Re: Volunteer engineering work
DIR By: Calum
Date: May 2, 2015, 5:49 pm
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Not quite volunteering but I get your sense of satisfaction at
making stuff like that... I make bits for steam locos for my job
(lucky me!). It's great to restore and work on bits of history
(which I love!) and get paid for it!
Die block from a few weeks ago:
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And as with your place, the machinery we use is equally ancient.
The 'small' lathes I tend to do most of my turning on are DSG
17" jobbies from the late 50s/early 60s but things like our
Oldfield & Schofield wheel lathe are probably some 30 years
older than that!
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