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Silver soldering three parts together to make pins for a 2″ scale working steam model of the Fowler A7 Traction Engine made from plans and castings by MJ Engineering.

How welding aluminium worked well using Durafix but the normally successful silver soldering for steel didn’t work so well for a model engineer

Two projects under way at mikes-models.com being the Fowler A7 traction engine by MJ Engineering at 2″ scale and a home made, home designed carbide tipped saw table.

After a delay the Fowler traction engine in 2″ scale has moved forward (not literally yet) with a start made on the tender.

How an ash pan and grate assembly is being fabricated for a 2″ scale steam traction engine.

I spent quite some time on finishing the profile at the rear of the ash pan, before I can start on the damper. The cast iron casting of the grate was cleaned up on the milling machine and then drilled and tapped 4BA and that’s about all a write up I can give really. One [...]

How an ash pan for a 2″ scale Fowler Traction engine is being constructed

Model engineers experience when forming a copper ash pan for a Fowler traction engine in 2″ scale

Today I got into the workshop later in the morning and didn’t manage to get much done really. I didn’t trust myself to do anything accurate but did manage to burn out my Proxxon drill! Its seems to be one of those months what with all the troubles with changing hosting plans and current poor [...]