The Model Steam Locomotive: A Complete Treatise on Design and Construction - Softcover

Evans, Martin

9781857611328: The Model Steam Locomotive: A Complete Treatise on Design and Construction

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857611322 ISBN 13: 9781857611328

Publisher: TEE Publishing Ltd, 2010

This is the 2010 reprint of Martin Evan's 1983 'The Model Steam Locomotive: A Complete Treatise on Design and Construction by Martin Evans', published in 208 pages in paperback by TEE Publishing of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK, ISBN 1857611322. About this book: This book is essentially an updated version of Martin Evan's much earlier standard work and model locomotive building "bible", "The Manual of Model Steam Locomotive Construction". Packed with black and white illustrations, photos, diagrams and tables of data, it looks at the following: Gauge and Scale; Types of Steam Locomotive; Workshop Equipment; General Principles of Design; Mainframes, Stretchers, axleboxes and horns; Wheels, axles and crankpins; Crank-axles; Bogies, pony trucks and radial trucks; Cylinders; Crossheads, slide bars and motion plates; coupling rods, connecting rods, eccentrics and straps; valve gears-single & slip eccentric gears; the link-valve gears; Walschaerts and Joy Valve Gears; Valve Gears for 3 & 4 cylinder locomotives ; Cab Reversing Gears, valve settings and the indicator; boilers; smokeboxes, superheaters, boiler fittings; lubrication, pumps, injectors, brakes, platework, tenders, tanks, fittings, painting, nameplates, fuels, feed water, raising steam, driving; Index. Cover photo: Jubilee - the 3.5" gauge LMS 2-6-4 tank locomotive model designed by Martin Evans

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