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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Completed Locomotive Stand
- Replies: 6
- Views: 310
Re: Completed Locomotive Stand
Beautiful. I am with the drop out.suggestion. have one on my very ugly but functional stand that looks was created by the GEICO caveman in comparison. I also have drop in barriers on each end so that loco cannot roll off the end...C clamps also work, but if i want to roll back and forth a bit, the b...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
- Views: 982418
Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
You really do not want a single groove along the length. You want a groove that, over its length covers the left to right of the surface, that is not open to trap grit. In reality, a diagonal groove on the shoe itself is enough...better in fact since it will never be open to direct dirt contaminatio...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
- Views: 982418
Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
Are you going to put oil grooves on the surfaces to help maintain film?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
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Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
enough to let oil in.
you are building a locomotive, not a watch....
you are building a locomotive, not a watch....
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Auto rack
- Replies: 11
- Views: 485
Re: Auto rack
You NEED a railroad car to move autos that size
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
- Views: 982418
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.
He recently sent me a package of live steam stuff PLASTERED with the stamps.
Think he said he paid $.040 for them.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:19 am
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
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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.
If I can remember that I have it.
Thank God for Plano partition boxes.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Auto rack
- Replies: 11
- Views: 485
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..
Many of which are probably not in the price range.
Revell seems to have some, but you would have to build and paint..
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New hobbyist waterjet cutter being offered
- Replies: 12
- Views: 287
Re: New hobbyist waterjet cutter being offered
Think I will spend my $ with the local shop to get this work done.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
- Views: 982418
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...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
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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....
Hollow piston rods with structural problems at 8 MPH has never been a consideration.
Crank pins coming out ...maybe....
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 694
- Views: 982418
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...