The Home Machinist!

I've been making mine from A572-Gr-50 plate, most of it comes in around 60-65KSI or better on the certs. That's not good? The actual size isn't a big concern, more of an example. The USPS box is 11-3/4 x 12 x 3 so I can fit 8 wheels at nearly 6" inside it. Our local shop wants $60 a wheel to machine...

Good to see you got some more footage and a turnout down:)
How many feet of track you figure you have left to go?

I'm starting to fish around for a smaller lathe to use at home and call my own. It's easy enough to get blocks of time to use the big lathe at work, but when I need to start cutting the wheel and flange tapers it really falls short as the big lathe has no accurate dial on the carriage travel nor do ...

8 pieces of 5-1/2" rounds of 1" plate (to turn 40" wheels for 1.5"/1.6" scale, will fit in one large USPS flat rate box which is less than $20.
You need not limit yourself to the Chicago area in my opinion.

I won't be having the turn radii to suit a 2-8-2, even one with the drivers as tightly nested as they do on those NG locomotives, so I can only dream.
Something in their coal in NZ and other countries makes it burn like that, I forgot what it is it was discussed in another thread here.

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This K-27(model) is a beauty.
I could never model an NG inboard wheel steamer on my RR, it would look too out of place as the proper gage in my scale would only be 6".

D&RGW's steam fleet (and then some) is well documented and there is tons of drawings online some with a lot of dimensions and some in CAD format. My thought was that with the counterweights being separate from the wheels it really opens the frames, wheels., counterweights, and most of the other part...

Curtiss, if I was building a narrow gage steamer I would build a K36. I like the unique factor of the drivers being inside the frame yet the counterweights and linkage on the outside. Also, I think they look great with those big snowplows on them:) In 3" scale one would be huge though, would bet it ...

I did a google image search and found a bunch of pictures online, I'll post them up this week. That's correct Curtiss, it's the same locomotive with the exception of that forward wheelset being evenly spaced where many of the NP 0-6-0's had it further forward, and the various tenders and fuel source...

I'm drawing the parts in AutoCAD LT for a "someday" build that will be mostly laser cut and fabricated plate, and pipe of course.

Bumping my old post. I am still drawing parts for this 0-6-0 in 12" gage(2" scale) as I have a few minutes here and there, what would I want to do/use for the "petticoat" for this?
I pretty much have the linkage figured out, and looking at a 2-3/4" bore, 5-1/4" stroke inside 6" long cylinders.

I don't think it's "bend" in the mill table, but as you move away from center in the X-axis direction the heavy end sags. So I'll indicate the area I'm working in, and either tram it in or remove the vice from the center. Last time I got lucky and it was right on in an area about 12" wide, left of t...