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I wonder if he was running into a cubed/squared scaling issue where scaling down the model made the operation impractical. Given same tolerances, a 16x larger
by foobarian 4y ago
I wonder if he was running into a cubed/squared scaling issue where scaling down the model made the operation impractical. Given same tolerances, a 16x larger dimension of the tank gives 16^3 more steam volume or at least 16^2 more heat flux which might make the gaps a lot more forgiving.
- bell-cot 4y agoPartly. But the weights to be move - the locomotive itself, any model cars, etc. - also weigh 1/(16^3) as much as the full-sized ones.