Tricky-CRS Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Hi all, I am looking for drawings of a Corning Beam Engine House like the one at Pooled near Camborne. I am looking at modelling one in both derelict and working order. Ideally both whim and pumping station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve howe Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 If you can track down a copy of 'The Cornish Beam Engine - its history and development' by D. B. Barton, (Pub. Bradford Barton, Truro) which is probably out of print, but could be got through the inter-library loan service or Amazon, this has several scale drawings of beam engines made by Harveys of Hayle and The Perran Foundry and their houses. They can be scanned and scaled up for modelling needs, I did a couple to 7mm scale for a future project - they are enormous! Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve howe Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I have just had a search round on my hard drive and found these odds and ends which may be of interest. cornish boiler.doc mine enginehouse drawing.doc Perran foundry catalogue.doc winding engine catalogue.doc 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-CRS Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Steve, Thank you I'll have a look and see what I can do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I'm something of a Cornish engine house specialist, and have built several models myself in various scales. So if you need any advice in the design and construction of a unique engine house, please let me know. I've also got a few more drawings, one in particular of a 60" cylinder pumping engine's house that you might find useful if you are modelling large tin mine pumping houses. The best single piece of advice I can give you for your abandoned engine house is to keep in mind wall thicknesses. The wall that supported the bob could be as much as 6 feet thick, with all other walls being around 2 feet in thickness on average. The boilerhouse walls would be signficantly more ruinous than the engine house due to their average 1.5 foot thickness and lighter construction. Most ironwork would be scrapped, the slate and timbers would sometimes be robbed, but in many cases the boiler got left behind due to excessive deterioration. This would be stripped of fittings like valves, cocks, dials, etc. One other useful rule of thumb for building an engine house is that Cornish chimney stacks are usually two thirds granite, one third brick. Hope this helps, Best, Scott. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Here are the aforementioned drawings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-CRS Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Thank you I may well be in touch. I am considering getting one 3D printed. So wall thickness should be okay. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Thank you I may well be in touch. I am considering getting one 3D printed. So wall thickness should be okay. That might not be tremendously practical due to cost and the difficulty achieving the texture and detail of Cornish granite stonework using 3D modelling software. I've used a number of techniques but I found the easiest was to use Will's "coarse stone" sheets for 4mm scale models. You can also scribe styrene sheet, or use plaster and scribe it while it's setting. My abandoned engine house sadly got destroyed, but it was made using balsa wood coated in a thin layer of plaster. HTH. Scott. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porl Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I've arrived a bit late in the day, but am searching, fruitlessly so far, for images of Cornish engine houses being built. Scaffolding and order of construction etc. for a diorama. Can anybody point me in a good direction? Any help at all much appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted January 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2022 It might be worth you contacting the National Trust at East Pool Mine. They have several diorama's and lots of knowledgable volunteers. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/east-pool-mine The other place that may have something would be Kresen Kernow https://kresenkernow.org You would have to visit in person. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pb_devon Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 14 hours ago, Porl said: I've arrived a bit late in the day, but am searching, fruitlessly so far, for images of Cornish engine houses being built. Scaffolding and order of construction etc. for a diorama. Can anybody point me in a good direction? Any help at all much appreciated. I think you could just make a ramshackle temporary timber structure with odd lengths, stacks of stone on the platforms etc. Oh, and make sure you have to hand a modern H&S document…..and immediately bin it as none of it will apply 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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