What am I building now?

[MSea]

Its an old mangle ?/

[Kiteman]

an old mangle it is not. Zak is heading in the right direction. Here a bit more thrown together.

[Bigkev]

Is it a static steam engine?
The ones used in factories during the industrial revolution, driving equipment?
Cheers,
Bigkev

[Kiteman]

No, it`s not a static steam engine, a steam engine though it is! Here the progress so far with some more bits on it and the first coat of colour.

[Bigkev]

Could it be a model of Puffing Billy?
Hmmmmm!
Bigkev

[zak]

Looks a bit Trevithick like to me.

[Kiteman]

Well done Zak....give the man a coconut. It is the Trevithick Coalbrookdale locomotive from 1803.
To date, the only known information about it comes from a drawing preserved at the Science Museum, London, together with a letter written by Trevithick to his friend, Davies Giddy. The design incorporated a single horizontal cylinder enclosed in a return-flue boiler. A flywheel drove the wheels on one side through spur gears, and the axles were mounted directly on the boiler, with no frame. On the drawing, the piston-rod, guide-bars and cross-head are located directly above the firebox door, thus making the engine extremely dangerous to fire while moving.  Furthermore, the drawing indicates that the locomotive ran on a plateway with a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm).

This is the drawing used as the basis of all images and replicas of the later "Pen-y-darren" locomotive, as no plans for that locomotive have survived.

[zak]

Make of kit and scale please.
I have been known to go off the rails myself from time to time.
They have a replica at Coalbrookdale I believe, it used to run in a circle.

[Kiteman]

Airfix, Scale unknown but the thing is 210mm Long and 75mm high if that helps. (106 pieces)

[zak]

I may have built one many many years ago.

[Bigkev]

Did they have kits in the 1800's?

Maybe missing from scene at moment but still cheeky!

Bigkev

[Kiteman]

I reckon that Zak scratch build the original and airfix copied it!!

[zak]

Cheek.
I don't know why I bother!

[MSea]

I reckon that Zak scratch build the original and airfix copied it!!

Would that be in the stone age

[zak]

You lot really are pushing your luck.