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Atticman · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject:

Great stuff Moose, often engines that stopped working with bits missing and never replaced are the best of runners having not been flogged to death

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jakesm · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:41 am Post subject:

moose,

ja well, no fine!

Who has been teaching you afrikaans???

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MooseMan · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

27ace27 · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

lets get going moose!

I wanna see this one!
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MooseMan · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:42 am Post subject:

JUst had a phonecall from the gent who is making me a repro burner - it's in the post!

I expect things will move quickly once that gets here. He's also mafe me a wheel, which just needs facing off and the tyre taking down to size, and centre drilling - time to crack out the lathe. Got some small parts to turn anyway.
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johnreid · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject:

I hope the Mail strike causes no delays
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MooseMan · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject:

Serious progress......the wheel and burner arrived today, made by a gentleman who specialises in very accurate Bowman replicas. All I had to do was centre drill the wheel for the shaft, an easy job on my little lathe.

Here is the burner:

Time to see if she'll run on blocks - that'll be a yes!!

Bit of video - you may be able to see that the wheels are running backwards - this is because the whole saft can be rotated, reversing the gear and making this technically the only Bowman loco capable of running backwards!

I'm a very happy Moose, no dount at all it'll run on the track. It runs like, well, a Bowman!

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Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân.

johnreid · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject:

Too cool, a plus to being roofless. one can see the flywheel and cylinder working, that is what makes the 410 so interesting to me
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Steve_S · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:05 am Post subject:

She certainly runs well! Could you just explain the bit about it being reversible? I'm not sure how that works.

Les · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:06 am Post subject:

Very nice indeed Moose.

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MooseMan · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:12 am Post subject:

Steve, the drieve gear passes through the support for the wheel shaft - this support is retained with a nut. Slacken this off , and you can rotate the entire assembly around the gear, see picture.

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Nid wy’n gofyn bywyd moethus,
Aur y byd na’i berlau mân:
Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân.

Steve_S · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:18 am Post subject:

Ah, I see. Thanks!

johnreid · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

Reversible, but not on the fly
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27ace27 · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:00 am Post subject:

Very nice moose!

Now my desire for a bowman has become that much stronger!

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Ahhhhhh... The smell of esbit in the morning!

Insert Bowman here.......

Junkers; someone has to love them!

Sandman · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

OOOooh, I do like that Odilon.

I have no doubt it will run round the track going like the clappers.
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