The Home Machinist!

I use pm research pipe and pipe fittings for a lot of my plumbing work. ...I like there unions, because they are made with wrench flats, ...I need to find a better way, of tightening elbows, pipe, tees, etc...without resorting to pliers, marking up the pipe, and chipping up the brass pipe fittings ??

Pictures are great ...they help a lot.....thanks

Adding Brian keims Sanders to my mikado locomotive....looking thru all my reference material, having trouble finding a good picture, or drawing, of how to hook up the air lines to the sanders...obviously they would have been controlled from the cab, from a single operating lever...but did the air si...

Foundry makes the mold, I believe you mean, you have the pattern ???

With no pictures,, or other construction information, it's hard to visualize what your doing here ?????

I agree the Berkshire would be a good start, since it has the baker valve gear.....the mikado has the walschaerts.....but again, how many people would know the difference ??.....lol...only us old timers....I seen that Texas and pacific 610 as a young man in 1976;when it was used for the American fre...

The whole idea of my original post, was after completing my rrsc mikado a couple years ago....I thought about using another mikado as the basis for a Texas type 2-10-4......and was wondering about the cradle??....if it should be put in the model or not,?....according to everything I read here, it wo...

Curious to see how the tender drawbar, would have been connected to the locomotive without a cradle ?? ...from the reading, Lima had a lot of trouble with these truck frames, and they were very prone to derailments when running in reverse

Thanks for all the info...very good reading..

If memory serves, the prototype, never had a frame/ cradle extension?

Looking for information, pictures, drawings, etc. Of the Texas and pacifics 2-10-4 trailing truck frame as built by Lima. I know there not Commonwealth, delta, or Hodges....seems to be an odd looking design?...I had the name of this type truck at one time, but now it eludes me ?

As for builders plates, go to black hills designs...he advertises on Facebook.....I just got mine from there....there the best