Anton's Live Diesel Locomotive

dunnyrail said:
Though if I may hazard a comment the running is not quite so smooth as Antons. Could it be a new chassis needs more running in or has Anton got more Toys (electrical and mechanical gismo's) in his set up I wonder?
JonD
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Hi Jon, well spotted. My chassis is shockingly out of balance with those big and heavy un-profiled coupling and connecting rods, and there's a total lack of any counter ballance weights. It's a test set-up at this stage. My chassis is diesel-mechanical.

Best wishes,
David.
 
Anton,
Thanks for the Posting of the Video of one of Barry's Pilgrims Diesels. Yes amazing and it reminded me of how much development and superb work Barry had done. Not sure how long ago that it was that Barry offloaded Pilgrim, but I would think 2-3 years at least now. Glad that you have been in touch with him, some of his magic has clearly rubbed off on your loco.

Sorry not in Hemel any more, moved from Warners End to Cambs between August and November last year. Long story. But St Neots is not a long way off, if you want to come up this way there will be my New Line just started on and the Ruschbahn that has regular sessions in the Summer. They are advertised in these pages. We are both 45mm but one hopes that your Loco is Gauge convertible.

I suspect that at some stage you may decide that you need more space for development, in that case a BoBo would probably give more room as in that Video of the Pilgrim Pionner. I suspect that this is one of the Production Models.

Finally re Roy Wood, hopefully he will bring Barry's and his own work into production. His DeWintons are certainly superb looking beasts and run very well. I could be very tempted by a production Diesel if the price is right. Perhaps we could get that Nice Mr Summerland to develop a Silencer based on Chuffer principles for you?
JonD
 
From last years show at Peterborough i was talking to this chap who was developing some thing similar... may even be a pilgrim design brought from Barry???
It seems not a lot has happened scince last year tho.. hope hes getting on with it as im seriously interested!!
http://www.roywoodmodels.co.uk/pilgrim
 
Hi Guys

As promised, ive finally managed to get the basic concept of my twin bogie BoBo live diesel locomotive, using my OS FS four stroke nitro engine.

I may be wrong, but from the research that I have done, I am either one of the first, OR THE FIRST PERSON, to make an Electric start, 4 stroke live diesel locomotive, as all others using the 4 stroke I believe were pull start.

It is a very basic layout at the moment, and was really just to test out my scratch built chassis (made using shelve units) and the Electric start of the 4 stroke, and how to couple it to my generator.

After looking the very fine craftsmanship, seen in the videos produced by David (dewintondave), I agree that although the noise o=from the four stroke is much more acceptable and scale, then the 2 strokes ive been using, it could still do with silencing some more, and i do plan on building a exhaust pipe out of copper pipes of various sizes in due course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUOHcH_vZI

I have more videos of this loco uploading to youtuve as we speak, so stay tuned#

Please like my videos and subscribe to my channel:::: http://www.youtube.com/user/antonr91

antonr91 - type it into youtube

Anton Richards
 
Very good! I prefer the sound of that 4 stroke to the nitro engine you was using before. How would the engine cope if you had a large flywheel on it? It may allow you to run at slightly lower revs and quieten a little more.
 
Thank you very much

Do you mean having a clutch on it, like I have on my other model? As a flywheel alone would not do anything to the revs.

Yes the sound is alot more acceptable for everyone who is not used to the sound of these little engines. Luckily for me, at the club I am at, their are a fair few model aeroplane pilots, and therefore they are very used to the sound of 2 stroke engines, as well as 4 stroke, but were very amassed to see my application for these engines :) :D

Anton
 
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