The Home Machinist!

A much simpler way is to pour smaller end sections, and bolt them together with channel iron

Why is scratch building of locomotives fading?...I haven't seen any sign of that ?

Ok, after finishing up my latest steam locomotive...I've been thinking about a new steam project to get my teeth into this winter?...for a while now, I've been thinking about a bucyrus Erie railroad wreck crane. Does any one out there in chaski have any leads, or information, where a person could fi...

Well, I seem to get nothing but junk from them ?

Nope, I'm afraid niagaras were long before my time

How did we go from talking about a moes pump to hydrostatic testing ???

Yeah, I don't mind running a little bit higher water glass, and then keep glass at a constant level as possible....just keeping that crown sheet covered is what it all about !!!!

Hmm....I didn't know they were so finicky....I've built several of the little engines single cylinder and twin cylinder pumps over the years, there pretty reliable, and work fairly well....guess I'll stick with one's of those, since you probably can't get the moes pumps anyway.....

Guess I am not familiar with these pumps, I only know they look good, like a Worthington pump...why are the not reliable ?

Finishing up the plumbing on my railroad supply mikado. ..I felt comfortable with the bottom of my waterglass, 3/4 of an inch above the crown sheet....I. may even move it a bit higher?...with the water glass I am using, if it were completely at the top of the glass, this would leave about 1 1/2 inch...

Yes, that is the YouTube video of the moes pump

There is a video on youtube of one of moes Worthington pumps.....I would say it looks like a Worthington compound pump, that he is using to pump water