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by makinsmoke
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Track Tamping Tools
Replies: 8
Views: 520

Re: Track Tamping Tools

The C&IG uses two tamping tools. First however, as mentioned above the base is adjusted, leveled and plate compacted, and relevelled as necessary, using a mirror. Track panels are laid and connected, aligned, then ballast is added. We have moved to 3/4” instead of 1/2” as it holds better, doesn’...
by makinsmoke
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: steam channel
Replies: 43
Views: 2145

Re: steam channel

Mark Twain…

Lol
by makinsmoke
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: RGS Goose#7
Replies: 4
Views: 711

Re: RGS Goose#7

Hi Dave, Beautiful vehicles! Congratulations! The box bodies were removed to enable the Geese to be used in the final and sad ending to the RGS. Scrapping. I built a three truck Number 4, and tried unsuccessfully to create the original Pierce Arrow front fenders from fiberglass. A couple had them, a...
by makinsmoke
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Lettering on engine
Replies: 13
Views: 957

Re: Lettering on engine

Milwaukee, 2015.
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by makinsmoke
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Little Engines
Replies: 1
Views: 923

Little Engines

According to their YouTube site Little Engines is closed and for sale.
by makinsmoke
Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
Topic: Headlights for Diesels
Replies: 7
Views: 797

Re: Headlights for Diesels

Not sure where you are headed, but unless that loco is on a barge you might be in trouble!

Lol
by makinsmoke
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
Topic: Headlights for Diesels
Replies: 7
Views: 797

Re: Headlights for Diesels

Hi Greg, Nelson Reidel cut the business end off mag light flashlights and used them. Being a diesel you can use the plastic reflector with no danger of overheating like on a steam engine. He turned down the outside of the bezel so it would fit inside a 2” piece of exhaust pipe for the loco headlight...
by makinsmoke
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal
Replies: 12
Views: 1046

Re: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal

Just remember.
The vertical tanks are NOT designed to be operated in the horizontal position. There was an earlier thread on this.

The internal piping is different.
by makinsmoke
Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: How to plug leaks in smoke box?
Replies: 14
Views: 84000

Re: How to plug leaks in smoke box?

Hi Tom!
Hope ya’ll are staying warm!
by makinsmoke
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: Globe & Check Valves Now Available
Replies: 13
Views: 3166

Re: Globe & Check Valves Now Available

Santa Fe steam locos had pipe coils under wood foot boards. A valve was used to control steam flow through the piping.

Photos are around.
by makinsmoke
Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 1.5/1.6 Scale Prime Washout Plugs
Replies: 5
Views: 766

Re: 1.5/1.6 Scale Prime Washout Plugs

Hi Tim,
Just be sure of the dimensions you are looking for. The 2-1/4” plug screws into a 3” fitting. That’s what them screws into the boiler. Or jacket in our case. The 2-7/8” screws into a 3-1/2” fitting.

Mike Venezia with The Backstop sells some, but they are a little larger.
by makinsmoke
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Boiler insulation
Replies: 21
Views: 36904

Re: Boiler insulation