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[Half inch live steam forum] Re: Pansyette

How right you are - there was me forgetting I need two frame plates!


--- In halfinchlivesteamforum@..., "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@...>
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> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, myfordmatt wrote:
>
> > Many thanks John
> >
> > LBSC gives the Pansyette cylinder block a width of 1-15/16", which
> > coupled with a couple of frames at 3/32" provides a reassuring 2-1/8".
> > (If using 2.5mm plate then presumably, since 3/32" = 2.38mm, I simply
> > make the cylinder block 0.12 mm narrower.)
>
> Oooh, careful - assuming you're leaving the back to back wheel dimension
> the same, then all of the extra width of the frames needs to be
> accomodated between the frames, so for an inside cylinder block, I reckon
> you want to make it 0.12mm * 2 = 0.24mm narrower, unless I'm missing
> something.
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Rich.
>





Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:33 pm

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Many thanks John LBSC gives the Pansyette cylinder block a width of 1-15/16", which coupled with a couple of frames at 3/32" provides a reassuring 2-1/8". (If...
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... Oooh, careful - assuming you're leaving the back to back wheel dimension the same, then all of the extra width of the frames needs to be accomodated...
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How right you are - there was me forgetting I need two frame plates!...
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