The Home Machinist!

I think at one time someone was trying to sell it for $1,200,000 ... to which I said "If that sells, my 4-8-4 is for sale the next day at $1,000,000". I figure I could hire the best machinist/modeler in the world to build me a highly detailed replacement 4-8-4 and have lots of money left over!

.... A couple of holes in the bottom ~3/16" (sub-wasp entry size) allow plenty of air in and allow condensation a way out. .... 3/8" holes would invite more wasp nests, during the summer here those things nest in ANYTHING they can find access into or under. Yup - Found that out! I removed one of th...

I think sealed is a bad idea. To me its easier to put in low point drains in the conduit and adding some vents to allow the enclosure to breath rather than trying to hermetically seal things At the ILS, we use NEMA enclosures that are basically sealed PVC boxes. However, all are ventilated and have...

Chuck, have a look at "NEMA enclosures" via a google image search and see if there is anything you like. .... Start at $10 on up to whatever you want to spend/need. .... Did find some possibilities. Most are more expensive for the same space as in the outdoor breaker box. The outdoor breaker box is...

Highiron wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:50 pm

I have both quarts of Stem oil and pin oil in stock in Green Velvet brand

Mike Venezia

Mike, are you bringing steam oil to Florida when you come? I'll take two ... (quarts ... NOT 55 gallon drums! )

I have been looking for boxes to house railroad signal system components. In the past I have used (also shown in attachments): https://www.lowes.com/pd/Eaton-Type-BR-12-Circuit-6-Space-125-Amp-Main-Lug-Load-Center/1114649 I take out the metal cover panel and the breaker mounts and keep the ground bu...

The signals are there to prevent three things, front end collisions and rear end collisions and derailments from too much speed in a route change. In their common usage on ride-on railroads (in my opinion) signals are almost 100% "Route" and/or "conflict" (as you point out above) indications - not ...

Why have the signals at all if you are sectioning.... The signals are there to prevent three things, front end collisions and rear end collisions and derailments from too much speed in a route change. So I have to ask, if you not going to stop at a red signal for the occupied block in front of you,...

If you enforce a one-train-per-block rule your railroad will get constipated on a busy day as engineers stand at red signals waiting on a slow-moving train up ahead to clear the block. What? that's just flat out wrong. If you look at ANY track that has two way traffic and capture the flag signals (...

Adam, In addition to Tradewinds which someone mentioned, here are a couple of club tracks: Ridge Livesteamers ( http://www.ridgelivesteamers.org ) near the town of Dundee. I think they have a Card Order session scheduled on the 19th & 20th Central Pasco and Gulf Railroad ( https://cp-grr.com ) locat...

BTW: just to add to my post: my reservoirs are between two frame sections. Even if the PVC fails all the thrown pieces will go downwards into the ballast. My train line is 40 psi. Also, this is THICK wall PVC.. Do not use the thin wall.

All 9 of my passenger cars have PVC (1.5" ?) reservoirs. No problems.