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tramcar trev
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Sorry I cant send kero through the post unless it is labled Lithium battery.gregh said:
Spare wicks are available at Messrs Jaycar or online
A tissue will clean the lens...
tramcar trev
all manner of mechanical apparatus...
Those ones would work as they are 5mm LEDS but at about AU$3 each you would definitely want the features they offer.....DoctorM said:
tramcar trev
all manner of mechanical apparatus...
Steam Tram Trailer Lights.
I have been making Tail lights for the steam tram trailers with details generously supplied from the people at the Valley Heights Steam Tramway; http://infobluemountains.net.au/locodepot/tram/ and if you want moving pictures have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPcduIGdWc . I’m going to take the LVS&ET Chief Electrical Engineer out there one day for a visit. As you would all know I am the Father of Steam Navigation ACT (retired) ( I miss Eureka at times) and I am in awe of these people who can keep something as unique as this running well over a century after its use by date, trust me even the little “Eureka” was a handful maintenance wise… However as usual I digress..,.
They have sent me pictures of the tail lights and drawings of the steam tram motor. My tail lights are, I have to admit, my interpretation. It’s called “practicality of manufacture in small sizes” or to those in the game “RULE 8”.
The internal kero lights look to be things of great and imposing magnificence however I will simply use Kero hurricane lamps which I now make in 2 sizes.
I work on the fine detail first, get that looking good and the rivet counters are thus distracted and can’t see the forest for the trees as it were….. The trailer cars themselves will be cut and shut toast rack trams suitably modified and demotored, but don’t tell anyone.
These were a challenge to make; the brass master has almost 10 hours of machining invested in it to get it right with the light visible on all 4 sides. My Surgeons 8 times magnifying glasses came in very handy. My only complaint is that the tell tail that faces forward is also red, in real life this of course is the kero flame behind clear glass. But I am pleased with the effect of having the led so mounted that it looks like a kero flame. These will be made left and right handed and would be placed on the back corners of the trailers. I may put a red mailbox on the rear too. Maybe this is as detailed as I go, the work was done using 1mm endmills and you only have to glance at them the wrong way and they snap off. They really should be run at 5000rpm minimum and are I think happier in a CNC engraver at maybe 30000rpm…. Maybe I’m just trying to justify buying one, a 3 axis CNC engraver that is. Maybe I should send this to my family and they can all chip in at Xmas http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3020-CNC...H_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item27c7ff5450&_uhb=1
Yeah as if, I’ll see trams running to Bondi again first…
I have been making Tail lights for the steam tram trailers with details generously supplied from the people at the Valley Heights Steam Tramway; http://infobluemountains.net.au/locodepot/tram/ and if you want moving pictures have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPcduIGdWc . I’m going to take the LVS&ET Chief Electrical Engineer out there one day for a visit. As you would all know I am the Father of Steam Navigation ACT (retired) ( I miss Eureka at times) and I am in awe of these people who can keep something as unique as this running well over a century after its use by date, trust me even the little “Eureka” was a handful maintenance wise… However as usual I digress..,.
They have sent me pictures of the tail lights and drawings of the steam tram motor. My tail lights are, I have to admit, my interpretation. It’s called “practicality of manufacture in small sizes” or to those in the game “RULE 8”.
The internal kero lights look to be things of great and imposing magnificence however I will simply use Kero hurricane lamps which I now make in 2 sizes.
I work on the fine detail first, get that looking good and the rivet counters are thus distracted and can’t see the forest for the trees as it were….. The trailer cars themselves will be cut and shut toast rack trams suitably modified and demotored, but don’t tell anyone.
These were a challenge to make; the brass master has almost 10 hours of machining invested in it to get it right with the light visible on all 4 sides. My Surgeons 8 times magnifying glasses came in very handy. My only complaint is that the tell tail that faces forward is also red, in real life this of course is the kero flame behind clear glass. But I am pleased with the effect of having the led so mounted that it looks like a kero flame. These will be made left and right handed and would be placed on the back corners of the trailers. I may put a red mailbox on the rear too. Maybe this is as detailed as I go, the work was done using 1mm endmills and you only have to glance at them the wrong way and they snap off. They really should be run at 5000rpm minimum and are I think happier in a CNC engraver at maybe 30000rpm…. Maybe I’m just trying to justify buying one, a 3 axis CNC engraver that is. Maybe I should send this to my family and they can all chip in at Xmas http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3020-CNC...H_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item27c7ff5450&_uhb=1
Yeah as if, I’ll see trams running to Bondi again first…