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Hi,

I have made a start on the column of the beam engine.  I don’t think it is an apprentice piece, if it is, he wasn’t well supervised.  Some nails with threaded ends are used for bolts and a section of the parallel motion filled in not even joined.  The column is made up from several pieces which are held together by a long bolt; unfortunately, there was no register between the parts so they could move relative to one another.  So, three spacers have been made and fitted so that the column can now only rotate not move side to side.  First the wooden column base was cleaned up, plugged and drilled the same size as the hole in the base, a mushroom shaped spacer to locate the column base to the main base was made.  The column itself which consists of a steel tube brazed to a bronze base had a recess tuned in the base for a push fit spacer.  A loose stepped spacer was fitted into the top of the steel tube to centre that end of the column.  As the accurate height of the column isn’t known it will be adjusted later; as is probably now too high either by turning back the top spacer or thinning the column’s wooden base.  I am doing a bit more than expected on the beam engine as some work I have to do is delayed and I still cannot finally decide the sizes of the model railway base boards I intend to construct.

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Regards Tony.