{"id":851,"date":"2022-05-06T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2024-05-05T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:31:20","slug":"rebuilding-the-shay-part-3-the-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-3-the-instructions","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Shay (part 3) &#8211; The instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Shay kit that was sold by Steamlines in the 1990s was accompanied by a VHS cassette showing how to build it. There are also paper instructions &#8211; mostly on A3 &#8211; with some guidance, but a lot is left to the interpretation of the builder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"766\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.04.49.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"854\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.04.49.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12-04-49\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.04.49.png 766w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.04.49-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"765\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.03.01.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"852\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.03.01.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=852\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.03.01.png 765w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-06-at-12.03.01-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality of the video is not great by today&#8217;s standards, but was presumably par for the course in the 1990s when it was made. I had it digitised so I can watch it on a laptop (I have never owned a video cassette player). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this was also par for the course in the 1990s, but I was rather surprised to see the presenter with a lit cigarette whilst discussing how the gas tank works. To be fair, he does explain that you should never do this &#8230; but later in the video he repeats the exercise whilst the burner is burning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video answers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-2-linkages\">one of my earlier questions<\/a>: what type of U-joint is used on the flexible couplings. It seems that the later models used a simpler U-joint rather than the prototypical one with outer rings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Justin &#8211; 6 May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shay kit that was sold by Steamlines in the 1990s was accompanied by a VHS cassette showing how to build it. There are also paper instructions &#8211; mostly on A3 &#8211; with some guidance, but a lot is left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-3-the-instructions\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,71,7],"tags":[27,72,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}