The Home Machinist!

If money would be a benefit of making copies, I'd feel best if it went to one of the organizations. Terry, depending on what legal standing you might track down, if there was one of the organizations that did books already, that would help point to a great depository for these works. But what of the...

I had bought the first volume a while ago. But now I don't see it on Discover Live Steam any more. I also didn't know that a third volume was written. I should have got the 2nd volume after getting the first. Anyone know of where to find volumes 2 and 3?

We've found that using the horse mats work pretty good for walk areas. Heavy and stay put. I don't know if they were easy to cut or not since I wasn't installing them. I only know from walking around them. Fit well between the ties or between the tracks.

Did you document how you made the molds for the pylons somewhere in this thread? We've been making bases for signal masts and not happy with our current molds. Either the surface or the curing times have been problems. Result has been a lot of work to only get some results.

The other big point is first getting it aligned right and then locking everything down so nothing can move at all. That's the key to having the packing be the part that must move. If anything else can move, it will try and that would be bad.

Chuck, Since you are planning on using a motor in the mast head, the physical size and shape of that will impact your design somewhat. Or do you think you have a motor that is going to way smaller than what they used? Since you are in 2.5" scale, which materials are you using for the moving par...

One idea for ROW is the width of the ballasted track plus one mower width on each side.

I'd say enough grade to require that you adjust the throttle to make it around the track. There should be an area that makes an engine work and also the downgrades to challenge your handling to keep brakes to a minimum. I've seen some layouts where some people like to make a single throttle setting ...

If you were thinking of the nylon locknuts, I'd be suspect of the heat range. In aircraft I've generally seen castled nuts and safety wires. A second nut might be the other idea. I think the caps on many cylinders may be due to hiding or protecting some of these different methods. Or are there high ...

We invite members of other riding scale and live steam clubs to our annual meet. August 5-7 2022 at Marengo NY. We've got 7.25", 4.75" ground level tracks. For gauge 1, we've got a ground level and an elevated track. Saturday night we are having a picnic dinner, bring something to pass aro...

We filter our supply when we pump it from the cistern. A 20 micron followed with a 5 micron filter. The water is trucked in municipal water. When starting the system in the spring I draw about a gallon or two into a white plastic bucket looking for any containments and flushing until clean. The bigg...

One very nice tool created by a club member is an extension handle for operating those levers. It was just a length of PVC pipe with an elbow on the end that fit over the end of the levers. About two feet long, it allowed the engineer to sit up right and not hunch over to drive the locos. While the ...