Right "Arry and Steve! It works both ways! but Steve, we are only scaling down from the prototype, not scaling up from the model.--Ugh--the prototype would sink thru the ballast!! However boiler pressure could be a couple of thousand PSI!
With the model cab sides 004 matl as Harry rightly writes--I wouldn't need a wreck--just picking it up would crush the cab! How did we get into this????? Was it me--I forget! Back to Walt's and Jim's P and Qs, yes and Gs too--in a Brit pub, of course. Gallon Gulping Geoff. And from the other direction: a simple 1/32 boiler made from copper pipe >would be 2" thick at full scale. That would be a heavy boiler. > >Steve > >-----Original Message----- >From: Harry Wade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:35 PM >To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam >Subject: Re: Flying Scotsman scale weight > > >At 12:22 PM 9/19/02 -0700, you wrote: >>If our model weights were more to scale and therefore flimsier, my train >>wrecks would be more prototypical!! > >Geoff old bean, > I would venture to suggest that if our model material THICKNESSES >were to scale then your wrecks might be more prototypical. 1/8" cab plate >for instance would become .004" material, much more capable of prototypical >buckling. > >Regards, >Harry >
