The Home Machinist!

I'll add my two cents worth. There is an old French (I think) movie called "The Wheel" in English - I forget the actual French title. It is a very good railroad movie and is silent as I recall.


JohnY.

As we all know Dick Jackson's home was the first home of the Southern California Live Steamers and where Lawrence Hiney collaborated in the construction of Late Disney Animator Ollie Johnston's own 1" Scale 4-6-2 Pacific, La Canada Valley 515. Does anybody have an iDea where Dick Jackson's col...

I'm very familiar with the Moseley Dyno. It is an alternator (AC) only. No brushes. Are you sure it's a Moseley? There should be a small lablel (F Moseley) and the top case "hinge" lugs will have a wire pin thru. The turbine rotor shaft will have a hex nut retaining the wheel. Thanks for ...

Hi All, I have a 1" scale O.S. 4 truck Shay. It has a 1 1/2" scale Moseley steam generator on it that has never worked since I bought the engine. I am just now getting around to looking at it. Are there any drawings available or some pictures of one disassembled. I looked at it today and c...

Hi All, I'm rebuilding a small two cylinder Shay steam locomotive that uses two Stuart Turner #8 mill engines as power. The cylinder bore is 1" and the pistons have a 1/8" groove in them. I understand that this engine has been rebuilt once already. I found a very worn out O ring (pink colo...

Good post Greg. We all need a reminder now and then. I've been on both ends of the problem loading and unloading. One impatient steamer actually yelled at 'my wife' while I was unloading 1" equipment at a dual gauge track. I've been offered help which (I try to) politely decline - been tossed o...

You could use compressed air and shoot potaoes with it.


Cheers,

JohnY

LL,

Thanks for the information. That matches with what I got from Joe Devlin. I think Jack Sessums built 3 axle trucks for them that worked well. Movie prop cars had lousy trucks.

So I'm sure my friend has one of those cars.

Cheers,

JohnY

Hi All, I have a friend who has this 1" scale Pullman car with 3 axle trucks. It is of molded fiberglass construction. The trucks are stamped "orange valley rr". He has seen some similar ones on Discover live steam.com for sale from the East coast. He believed there were three of them...

Hi All, I noticed in the Waushakum post that there were a few crossings on the line. Does anyone have, or can anyone provide a birds eye view picture of their typical crossing? I need to make a crossing on my 1" railroad and would like to see how the guard rails and track is constructed. The on...

Keep us up to date on when you will be up and running. I'm thinking it would be worth the drive to run with you guys. Bill Bill, I have 2200' of 4 3/4" gauge track 50 miles east of Las Vegas you can run on. It's too hot now but in the fall I'll be running most weekends. Contact me off list. Ch...

Hi All, I'll get some pictures posted. FWIW, the burner consists of a manifold with four 1/2" diameter tubes attached, each tube about about 5" long. This assembly is attached to the burner pan and points forward and up about 20°. A few inches away from the end of the burners is this stain...