The Home Machinist!

Hi, you will find there everything you need. My Dad, a Friend of us and me building the big three, class A,Y6b and the J,we bought our Drawings there. That Archiv is a treasure chest. If you will, have a look on the build log part on this Board, you will find a report about the building phase of the...

Ausdan,

tolerances of what Kind of Parts do you mean?

Engine bed, Rods CNC milled so tolerances from point to point are very small nearly to zero , Bolts are polished to 0.01mm smaller then the roller bearings. Axels can move +/- 2mm, Main wheel is rigid.



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Chris

Hi Harold ,

thank you, next weekend first test with steam by a separately boiler.

Regards
Chris

Hey Berkman,

yes, the pipe between the frame is the Air Tank.

Regards

Thank you Dan

Morning Guys, in the last Week it was abel to use the CNC of my Company. I made the second Mainrod , same way i've shown in the Report. We've mounted the rod and started the Air compressor ...... look what happens... https://youtu.be/IHEMVVrCLeA IHEMVVrCLeA The Engine runs smoothly at 7 PSI ....we a...

Hi NP317,

thank you for interest.

All the best,
Chris

Hey Keith,

true words,thank you. We are together then 15 Years, hopefully we goinig so far as you both did!

Thanks
Chris

Hi Guys, back in good old Germany, our journey was awesome!!! We met so many lovely People there, the Time of our Life. We saw so many interessting things, between NewYork and Key West. My Highlight was the visit in Spencer and touching the J, what a locomotive!!! Also visting the O Winston Link Mus...

Hi Guys, Time to Show some progress in our J. During our Honeymoons visit in the USA, it was able to see the prototype in Spencer NC. Pushed from all those impressions the Work on the Model going forward. So the first Movement on Air was possible. https://youtu.be/HVRC33YSCGM HVRC33YSCGM only one Cy...

Hi all, today, we mounted all the Rods on left side of the runing gear. here you see the eccentric crank with a helping device to find the right circule Center. IMG-20180404-WA0022.jpg view of the doubel Rods... IMG-20180404-WA0023.jpg the hole Thing...ball bearings all pur IMG-20180404-WA0021.jpg y...

Harald,

i have to thank you, for the Work on the Board.

Regards
Chris