The Home Machinist!

I think John Scarmozza has it right, focus on the crate and it doesn't matter who ships it. I recently received a loco and the crate had been destroyed with corresponding damage to the loco. I agree with previous comments about palletizing. I would reinforce the crate with 2x4 in the corners. I woul...

I don't know Bill about the 'safe', seems like the right thing to do would be to stop, let a little blower clear things, and then relight with a wick. Strictly my opinion based on mistakes I have made. But practical, yeah, I'll give that.

That's just a lazy and inattentive engineer's way to re-light their fire after they've sucked it out. Personally, I'd remove it but it doesn't affect what Marty said about the burner position.

When the burner is installed as Marty has described, draft from the blower will then pull the flames into a U shape back to the tubes. This maximizes heat transfer to the sheets of the firebox.

50 amps of 220v will run a 7.5 hp motor. I used a rotary phase converter as Harold suggests for many years and it was fine, but I've switched to VFDs on my machines to get my 3-phase because I like being able to set the ramp-up and shutdown times.

I'm leaning towards pouring a largish pad, something 20x30, that butts against my gravel driveway. Then build a 12x4 hydraulic table on casters that can roll all over the pad and up to track at the edge of the pad. This'll work and also have the advantage of being able to spin the table end-for-end...

No photo Glenn, but attached is a crude sketch from a 30 years gone by memory...so grain of salt and all. I have no recollection at all of the feed plumbing, and the boiler had a Vanderbilt firebox so it was weird anyway. The burner sat at the front of the firebox and the outlets pointed horizontall...

My experience oil-firing was with the BJWCRR #2, 18" gauge. Gravity feed, no regulators, separate valves for oil, blower and atomizer, although the blower and atomizer valves were on the same branch from the turret. The atomizer used an insignificant amount of steam. I liked having no regulators, be...

Model RR Magazine Index says there are drawings in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette Sept/Oct 1989 and Mar/Apr 1994 issues and surprisingly (to me anyway) Railroad Model Craftsman Nov 1953.

The Henry Bender book has the Baldwin erecting card diagram. I do not know what is in the two-volume Rodger Polley book set.

Got mine, they're really nice. 3 pr in two priority mail boxes, coast-to-coast in 2 days. Like most things in this hobby, they are worth the wait. Thanks Dave.

Dave can you post here when the truck orders have all been shipped? That way we'll know if ours should have arrived without having to keep asking. We're just anxious because we have projects to put them under. Thank you too for understanding.