Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Frazer many thanks for your input small torch arrived this morning
Stoker what you say is 100% correct this morning i was going to build the Cadillac carriage drew up the frame to cover in 1mm plywood the windows in the doors open up and down just like the old loco doors in the UK railway and not in and out then i stopped to think how would you protect it from the burner flame same with the wheels the smaller the scale the nearer the flame
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Scale is a problem ( hate to keep mentioning the French boys they start with the wheel ) i don`t think there are enough days left on the planet for me to make such things that`s why the size came out as it did wheels i had already.
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Bought two of these many years ago for the great grand children for the princely sum of £3 and they have just lay unopened on top of a cupboard forgot all about them kids today seem to prefer there smart phones or computer. I think the road i have to go down is to make a steam working platform to iron out the transmission worm drive preferred how many people can tell you the ratio for a 1" or 2" or 3" wheel NONE then there is JIm`s vertical/horizontal drive on a smaller scale would help to find what pulley sizes would be required so you see still many things to think of.  Would be nice to see some of your own builds even failure or otherwise that way we can all learn
Thank you for your input