The Home Machinist!

Very nice "distraction", and that's cool you have something to go play with at TM now. It looks like, by the G-code, your little CNC mill has no Z-axis, so you are limited to 2D parts correct? It's no biggie though, as you said you are milling wood to be used as casting patterns so you ca...

Things have been slow on the Veranda and there has been a good reason. One, I had to build a shop and two, I bought a mogul from long time locomotive builder Roger Netz, sold to me by Babe. John Mueller helped me go through his shop and find as many pieces to it as we could. Roger and his Dad starte...

Pretty piece of wood work, but I don't know that I see any draft included. Has it been provided, and, if so, how? H I will sand some draft into it. You can't see it in the pictures but. I precut draft where the pattern is 1.1221 thick. The rest is just quicker to touch it off. Not going to need much.

Some sanding along with rolling the edges and the top pattern will be done. After casting there will be some machining to do. I'll show those when I get the castings up on the mill. The next two patterns will be the leaf spring and some mounting points for the back of the top pattern. The little mil...

Old world drawing. I relate, and love it! Where are you located, just for fun? RussN I live in Oregon most of the time. Sometimes old school is the best way to go about it. There are some slight changes I want to work in to my design. The journal boxes are going to be a bit larger so I can run a se...

It's time to start building the type "B" trucks for under the Veranda. The shop is done enough that I can work in it. I scaled out the drawings I found on the internet and found some good photos. Going to start making the patterns for casting to some what scale. Tomorrow I'll cut them out.

I did finish the ceiling before I moved anything in. Nine LED bay lites with adjustable color and brightness. It's taped and textured now. After I paint, I'll trim them with molding and a grill.

Shop is done......kinda. Still need to install the large door and finish the inside. The concrete in front will be poured this fall. Started unpacking the equipment. Because I have to store all the equipment inside the shop now, I'll have to finish half the shop and move everything to that side and ...

No worries, I'm going to make a lot of mistakes myself on this build. That's why I'm here, maybe head off some of those mistakes. I've talked to others about sitting in the tank. It's such a big part of the engine, I'd hate to cut it up. Going to make my own trucks because there are special needs th...

The second generation GTEL (Veranda) had four, four wheel trucks under it. They were the bigger 9ft - 4" type "B" trucks. I'm working on the design of the span bolster that goes between them. And you are not far off from the shop being to small for the scale length of this engine. The...

I got all the drawings back. Have the one for the AAR type "B" truck but I can't get it to load as an attachment. Going to start scaling everything, now that I have paper copies. Started building on the new shop. Should have concrete poured in a few weeks. Have all the permits. Ordered a n...

Oh ok cool, sounds like you've got it figured out at least to start with. I was thinking that the leading wheel in such a long truck might want to try to climb the rail, so increasing the weight on the 1st and last axle might be beneficial even if it's not a huge difference. I understand what you a...