Small Cylinders for a scratchbuilt loco project?

[alan2525]

Can anyone suggest a supplier for small piston valve or small slide valve locomotive cylinders?

I'm playing around with the idea of scratchbuilding a loco. Trying to find a source for the cylinders. Something of comparable size to the cylinders fitted to the hemmens ogwen or the old accucraft ruby would be ideal.

Any ideas?

[Chris]

Could you use wilesco ones?

Someone fitted wilesco valve gear to a mamod loco.

[pauly]

These look like wilesco cylinders.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tmwbq-C7r ... re=related

[alan2525]

That thing is a beast of a Mamod though!

I guess I can order cylinders as spare parts but it'd be nice to buy a pair as home builder parts so I can get some technical information about fitting them so can design the valve gear to suit. Roundhouse obviously sell their cylinders as homebuilder parts but really they are a little large for my liking, I was intending to build a smaller 2ft gauge loco.

It would be nice to find something that I could fit to a Mamod Size Loco, just with an eccentric valvegear and some dummy rodwork to just dress it up a little.

[SillyBilly]

http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?productID=78
Not sure if they sell the valve chests aswell
http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?categoryID=41

[alan2525]

http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?productID=78
Not sure if they sell the valve chests aswell
http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?categoryID=41

Thanks for that link! They do all the parts separately too.

http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?cate ... 4&offset=5

Might work out pretty well with the price of the dollar at the moment too.

[alan2525]

Can you buy the Wilesco cylinders as spare parts on their own? Can't find them listed online?

Another cheeky request would be...

...unlikely but does anyone have a spare double acting cylinder from a Wilesco, any condition, just to take a look at and get the dimensions for it?

[Chris]

Could ask on the mamod forum where there are some german members.