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- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”
- Replies: 276
- Views: 67437
Re: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”
Re. white lead, if you can find an old tube of artist's oil pigment labeled white lead, that's probably what it is. I've got one that is perhaps 30 years old and have used it for lubing centers and it seems to work.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Reducing union tees
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1000
Re: Reducing union tees
The second law of building a steam loco is: Build the tender first 🤔, or at least concurrently with the loco. This is so true. I ignored that and I now think if I'd done that I would have learned things that would have helped me avoid some of the mistakes I made on the loco. (Just some of the mista...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Full Sized Railroading! (Chaski Railfan)
- Topic: Pix of UK traction events
- Replies: 0
- Views: 615
Pix of UK traction events
The Guardian has some pix from UK traction events. While not all are of the engines, they are fun to look at. To me the people are just as interesting as the engines. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/06/three-decades-of-the-english-steam-engine-scene-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iO...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: old photos
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4282
Re: old photos
At first glance it looks like that 36-incher is sitting on the elevated track.....
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1579
Re: Anyone like shapers?
Here's an old pic of how I did the smokebox saddle on the 7-inch Atlas shaper. You can see the angle plates and bits that I clamped to the shaper column to hold the saddle casting. It took some careful adjustments to get everything in the right place. The giant c-clamp on the shaper head is so I cou...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: Full Sized Railroading! (Chaski Railfan)
- Topic: Well Trained
- Replies: 3
- Views: 975
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1579
Re: Anyone like shapers?
Old proverb: "Make haste slowly."
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1579
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1579
Re: Anyone like shapers?
Many years ago I visited an old machine shop in town that still had remnants of the overhead line shafting in the rafters. They had a big shaper about the size of the one in the video. I asked the old machinist if they ever used it. He said not often but there were some things that just couldn't be ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Large riveting job
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9794
Re: Large riveting job
Well their phone number is listed on the website. Just call them up.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Sunbeam 1018 headlight being built from the Sunbeam print
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4244
Re: Sunbeam 1018 headlight being built from the Sunbeam print
JD Johnson wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:33 pm One of the fun parts was making the wing nut for the bezel closer. 0-080 Thread size.
Looks terrific. One of the most fun things is to try to figure out how to make something like that and then make it happen.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: steam channel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2928
Re: steam channel
I don't have time to watch the video but the death of our hobby has been predicted for some 20 years or more yet the crowd at Train Mountain's triennials continues, and at the last spring meet at Sacramento all the sidings and camping spots were booked well in advance.