That's a lot of engine for just over ten grand.
Steve
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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: 2-4-2 Locomotive and Tender For Sale
- Replies: 2
- Views: 549
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
- Topic: Anyone need grippers?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 127
Anyone need grippers?
As far as I could find, these are called grippers. Grippers.jpg What they are used for, I have no clue, but I know I don't need them. Can anyone use them? Free for the postage - probably a small flat-rate box. Preference given to long-time members (I once had someone with zero posts who joined that ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1045
Re: Anyone like shapers?
A "Shaper" is just a sort of "Linear Lathe". When I was at the Charles River Museum for a model engineering show years ago, they had a shaper operating. I asked the guy there why shapers even existed. He said that back then, it was easier to make an accurate sliding surface than...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1045
Re: Anyone like shapers?
I have a friend whose dad was a retired Korean-era marine and grew up in the depression. Guys like that didn't buy stuff, they made it. When he found out what a new tow truck body cost, he said "we can make that", and went out and bought a press brake that two stories tall and had to have ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another WHATZIT?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 956
Re: Yet another WHATZIT?
I don't remember.
And it's now three days later, so another three things forgotten.
Steve
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another WHATZIT?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 956
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another WHATZIT?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 956
Re: Yet another WHATZIT?
I found this oddball mic and the REALLY oddball thing is that the graduations are double normal size - when it says 0.100, the anvil has only traveled 0.050. IMG_20240226_180515.jpg It's for measuring the cutter on a line boring tool - the position of the anvil is radius, and doubling it gives you d...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another WHATZIT?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 956
Re: Yet another WHATZIT?
Measuring the height of a key, or the depth of a keyway?
Steve
Steve
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
- Topic: Bought one this last Sunday - WTB Rockwell vertical milling machine
- Replies: 6
- Views: 769
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: New Knurling tool
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1388
Re: New Knurling tool
Nice.
Steve
Steve
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Full Sized Railroading! (Chaski Railfan)
- Topic: Full Size Locomotive + Cars for Sale
- Replies: 5
- Views: 639
Re: Full Size Locomotive + Cars for Sale
You already do.
So do all of us.
Steve
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
- Topic: SB chucks rotary table and misc.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 638