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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Friends Models 0-4-0 "Dinky", Sections 1 through 3 ready!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3360
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Charlie Purinton's "tiecutting machine"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 760
Charlie Purinton's "tiecutting machine"
I've posted a video of the "Charlie Purinton" homemade "tiecutting machine", that Charlie used when he was building his dual-gauge "highline" track (in the early 1970s). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYDF-FKM5c&pp=ygURY2hhcmxpZSBwdXJpbnRvbiA%3D It's currently being...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Friends Models Updates, April 2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 597
Friends Models Updates, April 2024
Hello, Group- There have been a lot of updates on the Friends Models website. If you scroll down the home page, you will now see most (all?) products listed, in ascending order (1/2" scale, through 1-1/2" scale), with photos that you "click on" in order to reach that product's pa...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: WTB Gene Allen single cylinder 1.5 scale water pump drawing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2266
Re: WTB Gene Allen single cylinder 1.5 scale water pump drawing
Friends Models has them available, copied from the same masters that Gene Allen was using. (When Marty Knox owned Allen Models , the "Allen Models" pumps (which are actually VanBrocklins) were sold to Friends Models ). If the copies as supplied by me are not up to peoples' expectations, n...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7538
Re: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Bump, with updated thread title. Castings in stock.
http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... tical.html
Thank you.
-John
-Friends Models-
http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... tical.html
Thank you.
-John
-Friends Models-
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: H.J. Coventry 1/3 Horsepower, Compound Marine Engine castings
- Replies: 0
- Views: 72680
H.J. Coventry 1/3 Horsepower, Compound Marine Engine castings
Group,
Castings for the H.J. Coventry 1/3 horsepower, Compound Marine Engine, are now available.
For information or to purchase, please click see http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... arine.html
Thank you,
-John
-Friends Models-
Castings for the H.J. Coventry 1/3 horsepower, Compound Marine Engine, are now available.
For information or to purchase, please click see http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... arine.html
Thank you,
-John
-Friends Models-
- Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:26 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Coupler drawings
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2613
Re: Coupler drawings
The couplers are Yankee Shop, designed by Lester Friend about 1949.
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:26 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Power Model Supply Duplex Steam Pump Drawings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7326
Re: Power Model Supply Duplex Steam Pump Drawings
1" scale VanBrocklin (Power Model Supply) duplex patterns and original drawings are at FRIENDS MODELS. Drawings and castings, materials, available.
FRIENDS also has the 1" scale duplex VB pump with the outside levers, that was formerly sold by Allen Models.
www.friendsmodels.com
FRIENDS also has the 1" scale duplex VB pump with the outside levers, that was formerly sold by Allen Models.
www.friendsmodels.com
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:16 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7538
Re: Friends Models product update
"It was also featured in an article in Live Steam magazine in 2000." Nov-Dec 2000, page 49 "Building the 'Little Kathy' Engine" by Ed Warren. John Thanks, John! The castings as available from FRIENDS include a copy of the original 1920s blueprints, an updated set of CAD blueprin...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:39 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 1945 footage of New England Live Steamers in Color
- Replies: 21
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Re: 1945 footage of New England Live Steamers in Color
On the Maine two-footer at the end, when the engine's coming toward you, I believe that's Charles Clegg at the left and Lucius Beebe at right.
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:28 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7538
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:44 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7538
H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Group, Friends Models in Beverly, MA has just acquired from Tiny Power, the design and patterns for the 1920s-era H.J. Coventry vertical stationary engine that was known at Tiny Power as "Little Kathy". The engine was featured in an article by Mr. Coventry in The Modelmaker magazine in 192...