Comments on: Walton’s Twisting Engine (a labor of love!)

By: EclecticGuy

EclecticGuy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:22:06 +0000

Charlie, I’ll send you an email. Sorry for the late reply.

regards,
EG

By: charlie cole

charlie cole — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:40:56 +0000

Hello Electric guy, I am very much interested in the walton engine, have been trying for year to locate one and try and purchase one, any idea how tp go about this please email me cecolefly@gmail.com best regards charlie cole

By: EclecticGuy

EclecticGuy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:02:07 +0000

Hey Richard. I make my own gears but on my first engine I used gears from SmallParts.com. The center gear has 36 teeth, the 3 outer gears are 12 teeth. These are 32 pitch, 20 degree gears.

By: richard westerfield

richard westerfield — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:42:27 +0000

where did you buy the gears and what size arw they ?
thank you
richard westerfield

By: EclecticGuy

EclecticGuy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:18:32 +0000

Thanks Richard. These are basically miniature rope makers. They are used for making horse hair fishing lines, silkworm gut snells, and furled leaders.

cheers,
EG

By: richard kell

richard kell — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:54 +0000

sorry .. its http://www.richradkel.co.uk…..three w’s ….my kybord on leaving these comments has become very ‘sticky’ losing characaters typed ….

By: richard kell

richard kell — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:09:44 +0000

Excellent stuff, thankyou for directng me here. I recognise these devices as used in making rope, my slant is seeing them in UK ‘Model Engineer’ magazine from the 1950′s …. also the big book on modelling the wooden ship ‘Victory’ by Dr Nepean Longridge has text and diagrams of such ie making miniature rope of various sizes.

By: EclecticGuy

EclecticGuy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:22:31 +0000

Thanks Chris, I’ll check it out.

By: CM_Stewart

CM_Stewart — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:32:20 +0000

Beautiful.

You might also post this comment here: http://furledleaders.proboards.com/index.cgi?

It seems many people on that board use plastic hair braiders, which do not last very long; and nearly all make two leg leaders, which are neither as round nor as nice as three leg leaders. (Any you can probably count on one thumb the number who make horse hair leaders.) In all honesty, most furlers will view a Walton’s engine as a curiosity, but there will be a few who have wanted one for years.