The Home Machinist!

ChipsAhoy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:08 am
Maybe... split the axle and install a slug and sleeve in the middle to widen the whole mess.

That would work, assuming there isn't a gear or something in the middle of the axle that would interfere. I'd mill a groove in the axle to fit a key to keep the quartering correct before I cut it.

Mike

Is this something like what you are looking for? This is the Sandley passenger car…. Mike Mike, How tall is this car? What size window openings? Also roughly what scale? Looks almost 6” scale in length. Thanks Glenn Hi Glenn... The cars are 64" tall. The windows are 16-3/4" wide by 18-3/4...

You have plans available for those? The excursion car looks very interesting to me. We have a volunteer arcihitect working on pullman similar to the Sandley as time allows. He sent me some .stl files that I 3d printed to begin on the concept. 20220824_164120.jpg Scotty Hi Scotty... I don't have wha...

Is this something like what you are looking for? This is the Sandley pattern passenger coach.
This is the Excursion Car style coach that we built for the Milwaukee Zoo.
Mike

While maybe not as sensitive as Paul's version, here is my track surfacing car. DSC_0037.JPG Besides a level, it holds my stadia rod for raising track. There are a pair of 'hooks' that clamp the car down to the rail for lifting and levelling with the trailer jacks. Fortuitously, the stock-size pads ...

There was a railroad background in my family. My maternal grandfather and an uncle worked at the Whitcomb Co. Another of mom's brothers worked on the C&N-W Ry. My dad worked on a couple of railroads when he was younger and worked for a company building coaling towers. A few years after I was bor...

It appears to me that they press ball bearings onto the axle ends then the truck simply drops onto them and the lower bar retains them? That's the way the big ones work, though they are double race roller bearings. When you go in the ditch, the little ears at the bottom of the truck frames generall...

While this is a 7-1/2" gauge engine, this is how I'm doing the axles. The wheels I have are bored 1", with a keyway, so I made the main axles out of 1" keyway stock. To set the gauge, I cut pieces of 1" ID tubing to make my back-to-back 7-1/8". My axles extend quite a ways p...

Any idea of this pictures location or are we supposed to figure it out.. Is that a canal on the left side? Kind of unlikely in the era of the picture to be a nice straight highway. The picture was on Facebook. It's a yard in, I think, New Jersey. The caption said that was a street next to the yard....

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Hi Folks... Daughter Sarah was out yesterday so we made a 'movie'. I think I need to get a better camera, one that focus responds quicker to zooms, and will accept a separate microphone that fits a 'windsock'. The wind blows most of the time here...there's a sorta rude saying why that is, involving ...

That McCallister 2-8-8-4 was the one I was thinking about. Glad to hear it finally found a home. I had seen it advertised for sale for a long time. I wouldn't say McCallister's engine has a 'home' as much as a storage place. It wouldn't run there, account of the gauge difference. Darrell also has t...