The Home Machinist!

As far as shipping goes from the UK how did you get your boiler over here? When I was shipping my live steam locomotive I found a website called parcelcompare.com and got rates about half what everything else was, for what worked out to be next day Air delivery! I think the shipment worked out to b...

That's a really nice deal at station road, but I'm starting to think that this is going to be my next project, barring any surprises when I look at the plans which should be on order shortly. http://www.miniaturesteam.com/foden.html https://youtu.be/SiKu0FoHvOs Anyone know of anybody in the USA who...

Having dealt with Station Road Steam in the UK on several occasions I would have no hesitation in recommending them to ship you stuff. This might be something you would consider: https://www.stationroadsteam.com/3-inch-scale-burrell-agricultural-engine-stock-code-10846/ Reeves (again in the UK) ship...

I did some research and decided that it was better (for me at least) to get a boiler built in the UK, and shipped to the US - there are a substantial number of model boilermakers in operation, and the costs for a CE marked boiler even with shipping was quite a bit cheaper, and the wait was slightly ...

As the title says, can you use 1/4" and 3/8" soft copper refrigerator line for steam and water plumbing? I get that it has to be silver soldered .... Logically, water pressures run up to about 150psi. the running pressure is 90psi, so hydro would be the max at 180psi.....and the tube is (I...

OK, thank you - given my glacial pace of work, it's hardly urgent

Enid

Any update on this? I ordered a standard injector back in November, and the web site still says they are shipping in December 2021.....

In a way, it's saddening to see those smoke-belching monsters in action. They are products of American industrial might...back when we had it. Nowadays, the USA probably couldn't produce the piping on the boiler backhead. Too many takers and not enough makers. If you are ever in Louisville Ky, PM m...

The biggest issue I think for me is that there isn't really an agreed upon set of phrases to search for in trackwork - switch, point and turnout are good but search for "stock rail" and you're flailing around. I'm not sure that it deserves its own forum, but it sure would be nice to have a...

And I'd like to suggest that we stop hijacking Enid's thread. So far he's only had two responses that directly answer his question. Perhaps we should start one with the subject of forum categories. Well, actually it was an interesting aside - but I'm still left wondering how long I should cut my ra...

Now apologies everyone because I *know* this was posted here before but I've just spent 20 minutes searching and I simply can't find it. Somebody at a point in the past posted either a table or a link to a table that gave the frog-to-points rail lengths for various switches. I was doing fine while e...

I'm not sure that you HAVE to modify the frames to get 7 1/2" gauge - I know I didn't. The tender is tight, but I took 1/16" off the inside of the axleboxes and that worked for me. The engine itself worked as-is (although full disclaimer - I'm at the rolling chassis stage, rather than the ...