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A box full of bits for a 2 inch scale Durham & North Yorkshire traction engine to John Hainings design. Work to date comprises:

• Part-built tender

• Rear wheel rims machined, one fitted with strakes

• Front wheels built complete with axle

• Flywheel machined, bored and keyway cut

• Complete set professionally cut gears

• Cylinder block machined to fit boiler

• Set laser cut hornplates

• Crankshaft machined, keyways cut

• Silver soldered copper boiler - made to a reasonable standard although lack of heat in some places hasn't done much for solder penetration, it will require a further cook-up.

There are a variety of unmachined castings, a set of laser cut spokes and strakes (the strakes suffering from surface rust which comes off easily) and a complete set of drawings. Castings are available from Blackgates Engineering, there are pictures of a finished specimen on the archive. I've had several of these, I find it an attractive engine and, as with all Hainings designs, steams particularly well.