Isaac Dixon

[spikey faz]

I'm starting to add some of the smaller parts, which indicates to me that the end is in sight.


One thing I'm not sure about is whether the regulator should be upright...


...or at an angle. What do you think?


Thanks
Mike

 

[Osgood]

Angle looks so much more interesting and balanced - and I think there is precedent for it too (but can't think where to look for evidence)?

 

[Richard Gawler]

Another vote for the angle.

I do wonder if the regulator was turned from side to side in the conventional way. It would be difficult to control it with a fore/aft movement during shunting. Though the modelling is beautiful!

 

[spikey faz]

Another vote for the angle.

I do wonder if the regulator was turned from side to side in the conventional way. It would be difficult to control it with a fore/aft movement during shunting. Though the modelling is beautiful!

Yes, I agree. However, my interpretation of the pictures indicates the push/pull variety, so I thought 'let's go for that'. And, I also agree: angled!

Thank you for your compliment.

Mike

 

[Osgood]

I think most if not all traction engines had pull-push regulator levers (but not through the boiler backhead, instead a long rod into the cylinder block).
Probably best not to peer too far down this rabbit hole - an 1875 Baldwin loco INYO for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad (and no, I have no idea what's going on here....):

 

[Ian@StEnochs]

The Stirling's and their successors used a pull out regulator positioned horizontally but with an extended lever right across the boiler so it could be used from either side. Useful on a shunting pug! See this drawing of a Hugh Smellie 2-4-0.