Innehållsförteckning för July 2022 från Engineering in Miniature

Welcome to the July edition of EIM and I'm afraid this issue must start on a sad note with the sudden passing of Chris Deith, founder of this magazine and both the Midlands and London Model Engineering Exhibitions – the EIM family has lost its patriach. As I relate in our tribute to Chris on page 40, I got to know him as an enthusiastic advocate for the model engineering hobby, and a lot more, long before I found myself taking on the editorial hot seat, some time after he sold the title to our present publishers. Mind you having been a reader of EIM for very many years I felt I knew him quite well from his editorials, which were never afraid of expressing an opinion while always seeking…

With a need to make four identical keyways in the cranks of the Fairbourne Railway's 6-inch scale Darjeeling B-class loco, ‘Sherpa’, I decided that it would be easiest and quickest to broach them. This is a process where a tool that looks like a wide chunky saw blade is pressed through the work-piece taking out material – it is then advanced using a shim and put through again, taking out the amount of material the thickness of the shim. The tool does this by being tapered from its base to the top of the teeth, so that the top teeth stick out further from the back of the tool than the bottom teeth. When pressed through this provides a very consistent and controllable cut. Tight fit I bought the right-sized…

GENERAL NEWS The sad news of the passing of Chris Deith makes it especially poignant that the show that he founded is set to make a triumphant return in 2022, after two years lost to the Covid pandemic. Meridienne Exhibitions has confirmed that the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition will be held between Thursday 13th and Sunday 16th October at its usual venue of the Warwickshire Event Centre, close to Leamington Spa. Sponsored by Engineering in Miniature and long presented as the show for model engineers, the Midlands event is likely to be the only major model engineering exhibition to be held in 2022 with the London and Doncaster events again not happening. The Midlands show enjoys tremendous support from clubs and societies and close to 30 are expected to mount…

In September 2016 I visited England for the first time and enjoyed a day out at the National Railway Museum in York. My daughter accompanied me and I took a photo of her standing in front of one of the huge driving wheels of the Great Northern Stirling Single (Photo 1). However, my primary interest that day was to find Samuel Johnson's single-driver locomotive of the Midland Railway, as I was constructing a 5-inch gauge model of this locomotive at that time, which was serialised in EIM from November 2019 through to March 2020 (Photo 2). I particularly love the Victorian era of British locomotives, where beauty of form appeared as important as efficiency of function, with beautiful liveries, attention to detail and the pride of their crews that kept…

I am very happy to report that after all the work I reported last month, our 6-inch scale Lynton and Barnstaple Manning Wardle 2-6-2T ‘Yeo’ is now running better than it ever has while I have been the engineer at the Fairbourne Railway. The coal consumption has dropped significantly, as has the water use, with the drivers reporting more power and an easier day out! So with Yeo finally earning its keep I could turn my attention fully on to our equally 6-inch scale Darjeeling Himalayan 0-4-0, ‘Sherpa’. I finished the turning operations for the axles before setting them up in the mill and using an end mill to cut the keyway into one end of each axle. Then using my laser-cut alignment tools (described properly on page 30) I…

EVERY SATURDAY (Weather permitting) Sussex MLS public running, Beech Hurst Gardens, Haywards Heath RH16 4BB, 2-5pm EVERY SUNDAY (Weather permitting) North Wilts ME public running, Coate Water Country Pk, East Swindon, SN3 6FG, 11am-5pm Ryedale ME public running, Gilling East, North Yorks YO02 4JJ Southampton SME public running, Nursery Rd, Southampton SO18 1PQ 10.30am-4pm JULY 1 Hereford SME Summer steam-up/ 3 60th anniv, Broomy Hill, Hereford HR4 0LJ, hsme.co.uk/ noon-4.30pm 2 Tiverton & Dist MES running, Rackenford, EX16 8EF 2 Guildford ME Stoke Park Railway 3 Gala, Stoke Pk, Guildford GU1 1TU, 10am-5pm 2 Lakeshore Railroad 50th Gala, South 3 Shields, details at www.lakeshorerailroad.co.uk (see page 41) 3 Bradford ME Rae Gala Day, Northcliff, BD18 3DD 2-4.30pm 3 Rugby ME members running, Onley Lane, Rugby CV22 5QD, 6 Bradford ME…

A flood-plain may not seem like the most obvious place to put a railway, particularly when it is regularly under a few metres of water – however the Hereford Society of Model Engineers (HSME) has managed to build up a thriving club under just such circumstances. A challenging site requires pragmatic solutions to some of the common requirements of a permanent way – electrical solenoid-operated signals and points are out, for a start. And then there's the giant hogweed… Still where there are resourceful model engineers, there will a workable track be, and HSME is perhaps one of the strongest demonstrations of this can-do attitude. A Short History The Hereford Society of Model Engineers (HSME) was founded in 1962 under the name of ‘The Hereford Live Steamers’, with six members…

One of the problems of making new axles is ensuring the quartering of the cranks or the wheels is correct. There are numerous ways of doing this, but this is how I have done it most recently. I have a cheap £300 laser cutter that I mainly use for prototyping 16mm to the foot models, but it can come in handy for other things. For the quartering of the axles on the Fairbourne Railway's 6-inch scale Darjeeling loco ‘Sherpa’, I drew up a couple of guides, one that engaged directly with the keyway in the axle, and the other that engaged on the key on the axle. Both guides had an edge that was exactly parallel to the centreline of the keyway. Having cut them out in 3mm acrylic, it…

Everyone involved with Engineering in Miniature magazine has been shocked to hear of the unexpected passing of our founder, Chris Deith. Meridienne Events, the company set up by Chris to manage his successful major model engineering shows, issued the following tribute; “It is with deep, deep sadness that we announce that Chris Deith passed away suddenly on 12th May at the age of 76 whilst enjoying a holiday in Italy with his wife, Bridget. Chris will be remembered by many in the model engineering and hobby world as a true mastermind and entrepreneur. Born in London in 1945, he developed a passion for steam in his early teenage years and became well known in the specialist modelling world and steam preservation movement – this continued throughout his life. In his…