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by Bill Shields
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:53 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

Are you going to put oil grooves on the surfaces to help maintain film?
by Bill Shields
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

enough to let oil in.

you are building a locomotive, not a watch....
by Bill Shields
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:08 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Auto rack
Replies: 11
Views: 455

Re: Auto rack

You NEED a railroad car to move autos that size 🤪
by Bill Shields
Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

It is like a friend of mine who, when they first came out, purchased some $2000 worth (IIRC) of the "forever" postage stamps.

He recently sent me a package of live steam stuff PLASTERED with the stamps.

Think he said he paid $.040 for them.
by Bill Shields
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

Same here....now, 40 years later, I am able to reach into a drawer and (usually) grab what I want.

If I can remember that I have it.

Thank God for Plano partition boxes.
by Bill Shields
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Auto rack
Replies: 11
Views: 455

Re: Auto rack

A search of 1/8 scale cars pops up many options.

Many of which are probably not in the price range.

Revell seems to have some, but you would have to build and paint..
by Bill Shields
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New hobbyist waterjet cutter being offered
Replies: 12
Views: 273

Re: New hobbyist waterjet cutter being offered

Think I will spend my $ with the local shop to get this work done.
by Bill Shields
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

Sadly we do own a do all grinder, in the shop at the other end of the farm. Brother in law has not used it in 20 years but is not interested in allowing me to move it ..so it sits, no power, covered in dust...buried behind tons of farm detritus. Not worth starting Hatfields and McCoy fight over it...
by Bill Shields
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:59 am
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

Nah ...in our scales, the loco would just tip over when the rod hit the ground...😃

Hollow piston rods with structural problems at 8 MPH has never been a consideration.

Crank pins coming out ...maybe.... :shock:
by Bill Shields
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

I have a friend that worked in a grinding shop where they had electromagnetic chucks on the surface grinders (lots of little transformer cores that didn't seem to like permanent magnet chucks...) first time the power went off -> he noticed that EVERYBODY in the shop was on the floor...until the whee...
by Bill Shields
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Replies: 691
Views: 976591

Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build

since I don't have a grinder, I use a square collet in my lathe with a stop in the back...

your solution is much more elegant...but also requires that a smithy learn to run a grinder.....

looks really cool....keep on truckin'
by Bill Shields
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:28 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Reducing union tees
Replies: 12
Views: 524

Re: Reducing union tees

It comes in chunks. At my lack-of-skill levels: chassis on air 25% tender 20% boiler 30% piping and baloney and paint is the remainder...what's that...20% ? depending on each person's skill set (or lack thereof), these numbers are on a sliding scale. comes to mind the Reading A5s built some 50+ year...