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Re: Alternative driver wheels - brit outline steamer
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:43:02 GMT
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Aha! Thanks Larry, I will keep an eye out for those. I think for now
> I'll replace the 4x4 round and make the whole boiler out of slopes: it
> does look a bit odd being half one thing and half the other
That's a problem with your eye. :-) Prototypical boilers change shape as
you back from the smokebox. In fact, most boilers have square bottoms by
the time you get back to the firebox.
It is perfectly legit to switch from round to octagonal (due to slopes)
partway down.
There's also jacket effects but we shan't go there.
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 | | Re: Alternative driver wheels - brit outline steamer
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| (...) Very true, but (depending on the prototype) much of the shape change is in the lower part of the boiler and so is behind other stuff on the footplate (I'm talking Brit outline here) and not visible. I have seen locos with boilers whose (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Alternative driver wheels - brit outline steamer
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| (...) Aha! Thanks Larry, I will keep an eye out for those. I think for now I'll replace the 4x4 round and make the whole boiler out of slopes: it does look a bit odd being half one thing and half the other, and really the 4x4 round is a bit small in (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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