HUFFKINS Mine

[Barney]

The Cement mixer - The photos with the measurements were supplied some years back by a friend of Gordon the "flying Scotsman" The single photo is of a later version  The Drum had to be detailed for me to continue the build due to the frame which will hold all the in & out chutes  goes on next the base for this is an acrylic tube with plastic card ends  - detailed with Master Club nuts /bolts
The engine will be a vertical cylinder type - on the lines of  a Fairbanks Morse engine  - some good UTUBE stuff available on these engines driving Early Cement Mixers

[Barney]

The Start of the mixer

[Barney]

later version but the same idea

[Barney]

Thoughts on the engine

[finescalerr]

That's going to be nice! -- Russ

[1-32]

looking good Barney

[detail_stymied]

some very interesting plant getting built here.

[Bill Gill]

At first I was skeptical of a small mixer being powered by a steam engine, the only ones I had seen were much larger and sometimes the steam engine itself was mounted on the ground beside the mixer rather than a a mobile mixer, but that misapprehension was quickly dispelled with a look online where several small tea kettles powered mixers around the size of your project. Go for it!
Here's one YouTube video that fits the size:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX928FU-h8

[Greg Hile]

Yeah, I'm liking this!

[Barney]

Im going to use a Fairbanks Morse Petrol / Paraffin type machine as in diagram this is a vertical cylinder type but they do use Horizontal cylinder types as well in the Photo
loads of them on YouTube these engines are often called "hit & mis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idohWe4TT-w
Barney

[Barney]

Horizontal type

[Barney]

vertical cylinder  type https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcXl66H9rOM

[Barney]

here is inspiration Early drum type mixer with vertical "hit & mis" engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mw9Y6gY05g

[Hydrostat]

The Start of the mixer

Your precise styrene work never fails to amaze me.

Volker

[detail_stymied]

always one of my favorites:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo