The Home Machinist!

For those that knew Will, he and his wisdom will be greatly missed. Will would have been 106 this July and until recently had still been living on his own. Here is a thread from 2017 with a bit of Will's history. http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=105454&p=376206&hilit=will+wrig...

I will take both A and B.. I think I have a fair bit of inserts for them..

Sending PM for payment info..

thanks

I will also second the tube roller advice. Swaging is a last ditch effort if you cant get a roller in the tube. Years ago I attended the auction of a closed heat exchanger/ pressure vessel builder and picked up a good selection of mostly T.C. Wilson rollers. I have bought new ones also from T.C. Wil...

I would highly doubt you would ever wear out DOM tube unless you are running on bar stock rail and then it will likely be an owner or two down the road. I have put tires on some old wheels, they were larger than 4.75". DOM tube is expensive, more than round stock cut offs or having rounds cut out of...

A friends father used to own a mechanics shop. In there parts washers they used a product called Stanisol which I believe was just Stoddard solvent.. It was also fairly cheap if you brought your own containers to get it in bulk. Last I went to buy some it was no longer available they want to sell yo...

Split bolts are a pain in the butt, but they are cheap. This is what I use for splicing in panels and J-boxes. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Polaris-1-0-14-AWG-Insulated-Tap-Connector-Black-IT-1-0B/303578418?mtc=Shopping-VF-F_Vendor-G-D27E-27_11_TOOLS_And_ACCESSORIES-Generic-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-TOOLS_A...

I do believe its his Big Boy 4019 and the Northern 844 that are now on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. There are very nice pictures on the museum website of these two models . The article lists other models he built, possibly the museum has those or knows there whereabouts. https:...

Broadway Limited has just released an HO scale brass-hybrid model of the NP A-3 locomotive, very close to the 1111 (later the NP 2626.) https://www.broadway-limited.com/paragon3np4-8-4northern.aspx RussN The first ho brass engine I ever bought is a NP 4-8-4 one of the NJ International Custom Brass ...

and the 25% buyers premium is just ridiculous.

Mike do you know who had them?

sure wish that was a Sandley twin. 51 watchers now

Actually this HF hoist is rated at 1300 using the double line. I tried it single line first time I used it.... I think if I could get it mounted to a fishing pole I could set a hook with it, crazy fast. A couple of times I have hooked a small chain hoist to the HF hoist to make it easy to do small a...