Model Engineer - 4639

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Hotspur adds the draincock mechanism to his 5 inch gauge Beattie well tank. Rodney Oldfield machines the teeth off an old gear wheel he found in his scrap box to make a flywheel for his Middleton double beam engine. Don Thorpe offers an interesting alternative to the usual mechanical or hydrostatic lubricator to be found on a model locomotive. Mitch Barnes continues his exploration of the history and development of the so-called ‘Watt’ governor. Jon Edney discovers that a garden railway and chickens do not co-exist happily and finds a way of keeping the two apart. Graham Astbury completes the manufacture of his small bearing puller, designed to pull bearings from awkward to reach places. Luker begins the construction of a freelance 5 inch American outline 4-4-0 steam locomotive. Mike Nicholson makes a model of a Finnish motor torpedo boat. David Haythornthwaite makes the valve links and crosshead for his one twelfth scale Model Engineer beam engine. Ron Fitzgerald continues the story of the development of the stationary steam engine by looking at the transition from Newcomen’s atmospheric engine to Watts’s heat engine. John Arrowsmith spends a day at the garden rail show held at the Warwickshire Event Centre.