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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Thats him. One of his mdels has a part of the original engine underneath the display.
He also made a model of a brick making machine, that can actually make miniature bricks, that one is supposed to be on display at the brickworks where he used to work.
He may have made a lot of the castings himself, but I don't think he could have done the cast iron ones, I tried it once, could'nt get the temperature high enough, could manage brass, aluminium and copper, but cast iron no.
I used a 5 gallon oil drum lined with fireclay for my furnace. My mother used to play ell when I cracked it up, made a hell of a racket when you got the blower going to raise the temp.
Retlaw.
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A great chap , not one of many words and didn't suffer fools , but if you showed an interest he would spend the time making sure you understood .
Definatly know he used to cast Brass and Bronze because he once made a Bell which had a good sound , also remember him turning one of the flywheels on his lathe and explaining at the time the different charactistics when machining Cast Iron and Mild Steel , was only a little lad at the time but some stuff sticks in the mind .