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by gwrdriver
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: My first engine, finished!
Replies: 18
Views: 1324

Re: My first engine, finished!

Well done!
by gwrdriver
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: steam channel
Replies: 43
Views: 2145

Re: steam channel

That too is changing. Aside from those already in operation, there are quite a few locomotive restoration projects going on around the country these days, and all that I know of are "doable", meaning a new operating locomotive is physically and finacially attainable. One of the better rest...
by gwrdriver
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: steam channel
Replies: 43
Views: 2145

Re: steam channel

Especially when they attempt to bite off more than they can chew...by thinking that a 1.5" big boy will be their first machining/building project... LOL! I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that declared, despite many pleas to try something smaller, like a Tich or Raritan, or eve...
by gwrdriver
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
Topic: Wanted GAGE G.A. Graham HM1 Horizontal Mill Steam Engine manual/ plans
Replies: 2
Views: 595

Re: Wanted GAGE G.A. Graham HM1 Horizontal Mill Steam Engine manual/ plans

You might find this if you start inquiring within the Gauge-1/G-gauge live steam community. Gail Graham was close to that group in the USA, at least some years ago, and someone withing that community may have the plans. Also, his son Robert took over the engine operation and he may be able to help b...
by gwrdriver
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
Topic: Milling Cutters - Sold
Replies: 1
Views: 537

Re: Milling Cutters - Sold

No longer available.
by gwrdriver
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: early live steam
Replies: 6
Views: 848

Re: early live steam

Might have been shot at the NRM, but could also have been at the Science Museaum, or the Brighton Engineerium, which has been closed for some years.
by gwrdriver
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:39 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: early live steam
Replies: 6
Views: 848

Re: early live steam

Nice video. Anthony Coulis is curator at the NRM - National Railway Museum, York, UK.
by gwrdriver
Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
Topic: Milling Cutters - Sold
Replies: 1
Views: 537

Milling Cutters - Sold

I have a group of 14 milling cutters of various shank and diameter sizes, all of which are re-sharps . A couple are still in wax. Shank and cutter diameters are listed and diameters are within a few thou' as follows: 1.25" shank -1.412" d, 1.552"d, 1.755"d, 1.797"d, and 1.89...
by gwrdriver
Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:57 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
Topic: Bought one this last Sunday - WTB Rockwell vertical milling machine
Replies: 6
Views: 756

Re: WTB Rockwell vertical milling machine

In the mid-1960s we had a strong Rockwell dealer in Nashville and when they were ready to upgrade their machinery four local long-time model engineers upgraded to Rockwell machines. Two bought Rockwell 10" and 11" lathes. Four bought Series 21 mills, two were horiz/vertical, and two were v...
by gwrdriver
Sun Jan 21, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Nylatron Bushing Use
Replies: 20
Views: 1760

Re: Nylatron Bushing Use

Charlie, What Kap says. Paul Brien, who for reader's benefit, began his working life at age 15 at Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft during the War, rose to Head of QC at one of the South's major Tool & Die works, was used to working to close fits. He also was open to using new techniques and material...
by gwrdriver
Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: Online Program for Valve Gear Design
Replies: 22
Views: 12569

Re: Online Program for Valve Gear Design

My understanding has always been that the Dockstader programs were intended to be PROOFING programs, a tool, for testing designs for which the builder developed the variables. In the last version of Dockstader Walschaerts gear I have, IIRC there were about 57 variables to be determined.
by gwrdriver
Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Interesting story about a 2019 theft in the UK
Replies: 6
Views: 2271

Re: Interesting story about a 2019 theft in the UK

Scrapped?? Surely you must be joking. Like many other model thefts, this was in all probability a targeted theft and the loco was whisked out of the country within hours, and is now in a private collection.