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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
Thank you,
Jeff Smith
Florida
- 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...