Vlog 2 - Traction Engine Classes with Legacy Vehicles - Part 1

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Beautiful, little thing! Yet so complicated... Yet so friendly... I wish today's cars would be like that.

[@SteamOTR]

You and me both!

[@eliotreader8220]

@@SteamOTR I used to know someone who built a Little Samson traction engine. he let my Mun have a ride on board her while he was driving it around his garden. my Mum had to wash the soot out of her hair when we got back home. I have happy memories of helping Roger operate the steam engine. he named the engine after his sheep Dog. when he sold the steam engine he gave me one of the name plate.

[@brashers759]

Tom is so great, very knowledgeable and extremely helpful!

[@SteamOTR]

Yeah - he's an all round decent bloke.

[@Lemma01]

Huge amount of information presented here - at pace, but very well communicated. Always a pleasure to find a channel taking the intelligent approach, rather than the simplistic - two 'naturals' in front of the camera- wisely left to do the talking! Look forward to Pt.2. Thanks for sharing.

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

In Australia under our Boiler Code mandates that the bottom of the Water Glass must be 10% of the crown to the top of shell above the top of the crown sheet.

[@SteamOTR]

I've had to add a sleeve to the water glass on my engine to ensure it's high enough

[@beetle2112]

Hey, I know that Bloke..!!! Wotcha Dan…!! Have a thumbs up…!!!

[@SteamOTR]

Cheers Mr B. 👍

[@Gearz-365]

There's one thing I was always curious about when it comes to models. For traction engines or other model engines, they're classified by inches like 2" or 6". What exactly do they measure that is 2" or so on for the models?

[@SteamOTR]

That's a really good question. I'll add something in to the next video to cover that.

[@Gearz-365]

@@SteamOTR Ah alrighty :)

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

The scale of the engine is the size comparison compared to the full size engine, i.e. 6" to the foot means it is half the size of the original or 1 in 2. 4" scale is one third or 1 in 3.

[@roseroserose588]

As Grahams Engineering said, the scale is x-inches to the foot so 2" is 1/6th scale, 6" is 1/2 etc. For rail however, the scale is given by the wheel gauge. So a 5" loco will have wheels with flanges 5" apart, there's also 3.5" and 7.25" that are quite common (10.25" less so)

[@johnhickling2059]

Purchased a three Inch from Tom last year

[@SteamOTR]

He's a great guy. Good choice!

[@loadzofhobbies4219]

I think I've just been looking at this engine on the legacy website?

[@SteamOTR]

Yup. The very same.