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by Jacob's dad
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:35 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand
Replies: 4
Views: 546

Re: Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand

Thank you for the responses. I was curious how thin the material was on those and I figured it would be too good to be useful.
by Jacob's dad
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand
Replies: 4
Views: 546

Re: Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand

I would have thought that as creative as live steamers are, someone would have cut up one of these racks for an engine stand.
by Jacob's dad
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:23 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Rail Bender
Replies: 36
Views: 1642

Re: Rail Bender

This is the rail bender my friend loaned me. It has 2" square tubing to go into the trailer hitch receiver of his truck.
by Jacob's dad
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand
Replies: 4
Views: 546

Personal watercraft stand for an engine stand

Hello, Has anyone used a personal watercraft stand for an engine stand? If you do a search on them, you can find them for a reasonable price, and they hold around 1,200 - 1,500 lbs. Just don't install the bunks and use channel at 7-5/8" gauge, and a lot of the work would already done when it sh...
by Jacob's dad
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Track Tamping Tools
Replies: 8
Views: 575

Re: Track Tamping Tools

As others have noted, the search function within Chaski can be overwhelming and will provide too much data. Using Google and adding "chaski" to the first part of the search results in far better success to find results. Getting back on topic, there have been topics related to this in the ...
by Jacob's dad
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Rail Bender
Replies: 36
Views: 1642

Re: Rail Bender

Sometimes a Google search works better than the search built into the forum software. Type the following query (without the quotes) into Google and see if you don't get more and/or better results: "rail bender site:chaski.org" -- Russ Thank you for the explanation and I tried it and it st...
by Jacob's dad
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Track Tamping Tools
Replies: 8
Views: 575

Track Tamping Tools

I have searched this forum, YouTube, Google, Pinterest, Facebook, etc., and found that there is a real lacking of track tamping pictures and videos, unless I am searching the subject incorrectly. There is one video from many years ago at Pennsylvania Live Steamers that I found to be very helpful, an...
by Jacob's dad
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: Grand Scale Railroading
Topic: Why are these springs necessary
Replies: 30
Views: 21783

Re: Why are these springs necessary

When you build a switch with the springs in it to move the points, I.E. a Sprung switch, you need to be careful about how stiff you make your springs. if they are too stiff, then lighter cars will end up derailing instead of moving the points over and running through the switch. If they are too lig...
by Jacob's dad
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Rail Bender
Replies: 36
Views: 1642

Re: Rail Bender

Thank you for all of the information, it is greatly appreciated. A friend has come to the rescue and loaned us a rail bender saving us time, materials, and effort building one. I was going to build a rail bender, because of all the track I have installed or helped to maintain ever since I was in my ...
by Jacob's dad
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:50 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Rail Bender
Replies: 36
Views: 1642

Rail Bender

Hello, I did a search on this site for making a rail bender and I was surprised to only find nine (9) pages on the subject. Of the nine pages, a lot of them were actually not really about making/modifying/repairing/etc., a rail bender for aluminum 7-1/2/7-1/4" sized rail. It could be operator e...
by Jacob's dad
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars
Replies: 18
Views: 1925

Re: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars

Excellent! Thank you Bill! This is essentially what I am looking for so I can haul a yard in each car.

Thank you,

Jeff Smith
Florida
by Jacob's dad
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars
Replies: 18
Views: 1925

Re: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars

Nah, you want two steel bars with a center bronze pivot on a 1/2" bolt, and four loose bearings. Ain't rocket science. I put a set on my riding / propane car 20 years ago ..no formal drawings, just scrap parts and scribbles on an envelope. Ok if I send just a picture and you work out the detai...