The Home Machinist!

She looks great Eric!! Very Americanized!

Yes, very nice, Eric. More than a technical exercise, but a real re-telling of a story. IMHO, one of the best things I've seen on here in a while. Love the mini Coleman lantern!

Eric,
I'm quite intreeged by your inquiry about a tich conversion to a forney?!? May you please PM me and elaborate on this? Great job on your cab progress! Very impressed with that! Hope to see you at GGLS soon!

Best wishes,
Nico

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3/4" scale tich
F scale Class B Accucraft Shay

Thanks for the comments everybody.

Nico, PM sent.

So work continues on the project. I am getting into some of the final fiddly details. It's all fun stuff though.

Here is a look at some of the features of the cab:

In this view you can see the roof vent open. I created a something similar to a hood prop to hold the vent open. The prop, made from a pice of brass wire, stows away and the vent can close.




The front doors open, of course. I embedded small rare earth magnets in each door. These are 1/8" diameter. The magnets latch the doors in either an open or closed position by engaging to small metal strike plates. This keeps the doors from doing any unwanted swinging around.


The windows are all glazed with real glass as you know and they slide open and closed freely.






I respectfully stole this idea from Dwight Ennis. I thought it would be a good idea to have a removable roof section to better view the back head depending on my riding position. I was too lazy to create the fancy tracks and slide out section that Dwight did though so I used steel angles and rare earth magnets to secure the removable section.

More to post soon.

Thanks for looking.

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Eric Maschwitz
Head of Operations, Squirrel Mountain Mine
Former Whistle Punk,
Gunn Lake Land and Lumber, a subsidiary of East Devils Hill Lumber Co

One more quick update before I turn in for the night.

Here are a few pics of some of my recent work on the backhead details.


New pressure gauge with fancy bracket, cab light and whistle piping are underway.


Here is the pressure gauge bracket I came up with. I decided to add a little finial detail to the top of the bracket. After whittling the pressure gauge and cab light bracket out of brass I gave everything a nice polish. The cab light bracket is attached to the pressure gauge bracket with 00-90 screws. The cab light was special ordered for me by my local dollhouse shop. It had to be modified to work with a 1.5 volt grain of wheat bulb since dollhouses run off 12v. The oil lamp is a very nice piece though. It is machined brass, gold plated and hand blown glass.


The whistle valve is in the foreground. The pipe runs from the valve and up the inside if the front cab wall to where it is mounted in the roof of the cab.


The conduit for the cab light wiring and the pressure gauge siphon can be seen here.

Next task on the work bench is a finished wood cab floor and a hidden battery and switch for the cab light.

Thanks for looking.

Regards,

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Eric Maschwitz
Head of Operations, Squirrel Mountain Mine
Former Whistle Punk,
Gunn Lake Land and Lumber, a subsidiary of East Devils Hill Lumber Co

That's okay as I stole it from Mike Massee (Harlock) - AND I fully intend to steal your idea for magnetic door clasps. Great solution.

She's looking terrific Eric! Wonderful work.

Hello Eric,

again, a wonderful work. Your idea with the magnets is great, and I'm really looking forward to june, when I will meet with Henner and hopefully see your engine.

I have a Marie E in 5" gauge, and perhaps the measuring will be close to your Krauss to upscale the eninge in the same way.

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Greetings from Germany
Hubert The Goose
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