The Home Machinist!

As I recall, Emory had two SB lathes that he used.... And I think they were mounted on heavy plates.

Rich Carlstendt would be the one who could verify for sure.

LL

Harlock wrote:....In the past we've made them with oak, but we've come tor realize that the grain is too large for smaller scale projects. Mahogany creates a good scale grain match for oak.

Beech is also good. Has a fine tight grain.

LL

A little bit of LE C.P. Huntington trivia..... Has anyone ever watched the musical, "The King and I"? I'm talking the classic 1950s version starring Yul Brenner and Deborah Kerr..... all the others are crap. In the King's study, den, or whatever you want to call it, you will see the origin...

Moody Braun designed and developed the compressor mentioned above by Steven during the transition period of Little Engines ownership to him from Irene. The pump was listed (drawings/materials.... It was bar stock construction and no castings) in the LE catalog during the early 1980s well before the ...

David Moore has 1.5" scale Franklin butterfly style (16"x20" prototype) firedoor. The castings are scale and are lost wax.

LL

Hey, Rich.... The 1985 meet was the IBLS meet at LALS. Barry's Nathan was first displayed at the 1984 meet. I've drawn a blank on the L&M injector. There was an L.S. injector.

LL

I spoke with Barry in regards to the current quality of his Simplex injector body castings about 10 years ago. To eliminate problems, he had upped the wax inspection level and even hand delivered the waxes to the foundry in order to avoid UPS damage in shipping. What he could not control was the fo...

LivingLegend wrote:....I also shot the waxes and cores at Barry's for all of the Nathan's bodies....

I should clarify.... I shot all of the body waxes (and it's cores) only for the Nathan's initial production run, which was fifty. Barry shot the waxes for the rest of the injector's castings.

LL

Dave... As far as I can recall, Barry didn't hydro the bodies of his injectors. i guess it boiled down to the high quality put out by the foundry he used.... and the foundry Barry used was one of the best. When Barry produced the first run of fifty Nathan Simplex injectors during the early 1980s, I ...

Cary...

The last place I remember Jim Oetting would have been living at around the time of the Darby RRSC era was in Van Nuys.... A short distance north of Valley College.

LL

I assume you all have seen the vidios on youtube? Very cool footage.... In addition to Chet's Little Engines 4-8-4 at the beginning of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qGz5AbwJcZ0 (A Visit to Railroad Supply Corporation, 1984), is the prototype RRSC Mikado. The CP173 that's on display with them belong...

Atkinson_Railroad wrote:From 9th Edition Catalog Published Spring 1984

That was the catalog where names went to the wrong photo....

They have Ken Prather's name next to Royal Wright's photo and Royal's name next to Ken's photo.

LL