nomisd Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Dung isn't going to stack as well as logs... http://www.bioenergywiki.net/File:Cow_dung.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourthsVeil Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 What a nice stack! Use Smarties: flatten them by cutting them in half, then paint dung colour… Armin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Logs and dung in the same post.................not breakfast reading. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Wasn't there some constipated person using Smarties and it came out a Treat? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 So we've reached the toilet humour stage..... Plans today include finding the stash of plaster bandage then applying it to the various hillsides constructed so far. Still not sure whether to include a dirt track to the house, or how to disguise the right hand exit, but no doubt something will float to the front of mind at some point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Show us the reed relays Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 Show us the reed relays Patience..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Patience..... Has a slight paddy, but gets a grip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 I need too build the loco chassis first, to get the correct gauge, then I can work out the rail lengths, then I can work out the correct position of the magnets and relays. 4 weeks to go... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 For those of you following ( very much appreciated !!) and who have vivid imaginations, here is a train passing through the cutting On the upper river bank, some green stuff is arriving 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Love the cork. Boiler service? Wheel re-profiling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 The loco was inspired by seeing 4472 in York NRM some years ago... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 The rock face is more or less done and the tea terraces have been started 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I also saw 4472 in a state of disarray at the NRM, and can well imagine the little light-bulb flash which any self-respecting cartoonist would place above your furrowed brow. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 I also saw 4472 in a state of disarray at the NRM, and can well imagine the little light-bulb flash which any self-respecting cartoonist would place above your furrowed brow. However, we all know what 4472 looks like now and Stu's layout might get just as much attention when it is 'launched'. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 ...to get the correct gauge... ??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 Well, not really 'gauge', but I need to create a smooth path for the outrigger wheel to run on, as if it's impeded it might derail the main wheels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 Well, not really 'gauge', but I need to create a smooth path for the outrigger wheel to run on, as if it's impeded it might derail the main wheels. No dead Bullocks in the way then? P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 No dead Bullocks in the way then? P Nope, no sign of Sandra, dead or alive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2016 That tea terrace sounds a great idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 That tea terrace sounds a great idea One trys to be refined. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 tea in Panjabi/Punjabi: ਚਾਹtea in Hindi: चाय tea terraces in Yorkshire?: (hoping the fonts work out OK) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) Well, not really 'gauge', but I need to create a smooth path for the outrigger wheel to run on, as if it's impeded it might derail the main wheels. I've only just found this thread Stubby and am enjoying it enormously. I hope this isn't too OT but there have been other Ewing monorails apart from the Patlala State. The Kundala Valley Railway seems to have preceded Patiala by a few years though it only ever used mules and in order to use steam power was converted to a narrow gauge railway. A few years earlier Siemens had come up with an electrically powered Ewing monorail for hauling barges on canals with the obvious advantage that the single rail would leave the towpath clear for horses. They used in experimentally on a short section of I think the Finow canal in Germany and were going to use it on the Teltow Canal near Berlin but the local authorities insisted on a conventional metre gague towing railway. Siemens also built this Ewing monorail tractor for a planned towing system on the St. Denis canal near Paris and showed it at the the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Apparently 85% of the weight was carried by the double flanged powered wheels and only about 15% by the balancing wheels which seems to have run on a concrete strip laid on the towpath. The funny thing is that the Siemens tractor looks a lot more modern than the Patiala loco and stock even though it was bult several years before but it would be a far less entertaining model than what you're doing. It's overhead electrical supply would also be less challenging to model than what you're doing (though not by much) . The St. Denis plan fell through for financial reasons but about 1000miles of French canals between Dunkerque and Mulhouse were eventually equipped with electric towing railways though these were conventiional metre and 600 mm gauge railways. The French canal authorities got over the problem of the railway sharing the towpath with horses by banning them so all non-powered barges had to use the electric tractors. The system survived until comparatively recently.and traces can still be found. Edited January 12, 2018 by Pacific231G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 25, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) David,Thanks for that, fascinating stuff. Curious in both cases how wide the non-rail wheels are, considering how little weight they carry.An overhead system would be much easier.... Edited March 26, 2016 by Stubby47 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Have you seen this page a similar monorail destined for Lisbon was tested at Buckhurst Hill ! ...and subsequently accused of being fraudulent. dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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