 | BUILDING SMALL STEAM LOCOMOTIVESA Practical Guide to Making Engines for the Garden Gauges - November 2008
by Peter Jones
ISBN 978-1-847970-29-9
Book 19.6cm x 25.2cm Hardback 222 Pages 200 Colour Photographs
Publisher: Crowood Press
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| | If you have an ambition to build a small live steam locomotive, but are daunted by the skills required, then this book is for you. Written in his clear and encouraging style, Peter Jones demystifies the whole process for those with little or no previous experience. Contents include:· An explanation of terms· Basic metalworking processes· Step-by-step project guides· Machining· Boilermaking· Painting and finishing Fully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and drawings, and including appendices of suppliers and societies, this is an invaluable work for the railway modeller. Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1 – Introduction
- 2 – The Naming of Parts
- 3 – Basic Metalworking
- 4 – Dempsey
- 5 – The Dacre Principle
- 6 – Machining: An Introduction
- 7 – Specific Machining
- 8 – Boilermaking
- 9 – Wirral: A Project in Outline
- 10 – Motor Tank
- 11 – Painting and Lining
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Useful Addresses
- Index
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