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why one-third scale?
Lane built his Bridgeport to 1/3 scale http://www.cp-tel.net/mary/Lmill.htm . The current issue of HSM shows Pierre Scerri's 1/3 scale Ferrari. These are the finest models I have ever seen. But the scale factor seems a bit odd. Quarter, eighth, sixteenth scale -- this seem logical, decreasing dimensions by factors of two. Dividing the original dimensions by 3 is likely to result in scaled dimensions which end in .33333... or whatever.
Is there something venerable about 4"=1 foot?
Allan
If original has 3/8" bolts you can use 1/8" bolt?
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Sorry Aostling My Mini Mill is 1/4 scale.I measured my Bridgeport with a pull tape and divided by 4 .Originally Posted by aostling
Just seamed like the thing to do. but if i was doing it again it would be 1/3 scale.LANE
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Lane,
Yes, I see now on your home page that it was Wilhelm Huxhold who did the 1/3 scale Bridgeport.
The more I think about it, 4"=1 foot seems rather nice. It's all subjective (and too philosophical), of course.
Allan
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Although the word "half pint" has been widely used to discribe midgits they are actually more closer to 1/3 size, it is for this reason that people build machines and cars that size, although .127% of the worlds populous midgets hold aproximately .36% of the worlds wealth, they are very industrious people and it makes sense to have a market place to dump your stuff when the rest of the world asks "why did you build that".
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Probably all started when some guy stole the drawings for the machine and mistook inch for centimeter. It wasn't supposed to be a scale model - it just turned out that way.
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One foot is approximately 30 centimetres....
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... and a centimeter is roughly 1/3 inch.
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scale.........
More often than not,scale is determined by the size of tyres available.At least,in the case of vehicles.I suppose it also relates to the size of machine available to do the work on.
The old english standards for models were referred to in "inches to the foot",so 1/3rd scale would be 4 inches to the foot.
It often also boils down to cost,or space to store/display models.
I'm building a steam locomotive in 5" gauge,but since this is a freelance model,what could be used as a scale measurement?
I have no idea what the relative scale would be,my best guess is about 1/6th.
Hans
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