Grass Valley is in Northern California and was a very busy gold mining town in the last of the 19th and early 20th centuries. More gold in the Mother Load country.
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- Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:34 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Free Chloe Cab ****NO LONGER AVAILABLE****
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7643
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:24 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: LBSC Virginia plans
- Replies: 88
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Re: LBSC Virginia plans
Another design by LBSC that he never built was the Titfield Thunderbolt (Lyon) in both 3 1/2" and 5" gages. The 5" version had a few issues in the GAB valve gear. Subsequent builders found them and designed the corrections. Also some improvements were made. There is/are several 7 1/4&...
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Rail car construction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18911
Re: Rail car construction
Here are three more suggestions to contact for info on car restoration. California State RR Museum in Sacramento, CA, Nevada State RR Museum in Carson City, NV and the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, CO. The NSRM is currently restoring the heavy duty flat car used to transport the Carson & Colorad...
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Rail car construction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18911
Re: Rail car construction
Find a copy of a pre 1900 Master Car Builders Dictionary. They were reprinted several decades ago and are surely out of print. A guess would be 1879 or late 1880s editions would give you some idea of wood constructed passenger cars and also freight cars.
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- Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pull start repair.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 27729
Re: Pull start repair.
Mineral oil is he preferred oil for Oilite bearings. 3 & 1 Oil is an absolute No-No. It will cause the mineral oil to coagulate. That means the oil will not flow to the running surface as it warms up. I am guessing now but I suspect that the additives in any motor oil will not be compatible with...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:29 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: steam/exhaust port sizing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5096
Re: steam/exhaust port sizing
Just as an aside, the RRSC Engineering Notes came from Winton Brown's last catalog. Chet took them and made the little orange book.
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- Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:38 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Kit Iron Castings
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11712
Re: Kit Iron Castings
I think the main advantage to ductile iron over grey iron is that the ductile iron machines very nicely and doesn't make as much dust as when grey iron is machined. Also grey iron is more brittle than ductile iron. Jim Kreider uses ductile iron for many of his castings. The quality of grey iron can ...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:31 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 1” scale rivets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23200
Re: 1” scale rivets
Gordon Sherwood made truncated conical rivets from round head ones by turning them in a jewelers lathe. He made lots of them so the job was tedious. They were for his 2-6-0 for 7 1/2" gage. If you go with the brass ones the top should be flattened off. I think that the cone angle should be a li...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smearing On Cutter Block After Using Evapo-Rust
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9770
Re: Smearing On Cutter Block After Using Evapo-Rust
No knowledge here just a guess. Could this be micro etching? While I am here I will relate a sad experience. I purchased a used Starrett No. 56 small surface gage in nice condition except the bottom and edges were pretty much rusted. What did I do? I soaked the base in Evapo-rust. It did indeed clea...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:56 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Invicta in 1.5" Scale
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5142
Re: Invicta in 1.5" Scale
Dean, Bruce's Invicta was built in the mid 1950s and was completed in time to run at the 1960 BLS meet at LALS. Bruce up scaled the prints from England for the 3 1/2" gage version + extra engineering for his version. Somebody in the mid west built a group of Invictas from their own plans. They ...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: OT creative language
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36133
Re: OT creative language
Old German proverb. To soon we grow old. To late we grow smart.
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- Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:43 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Help Identify Fowler Lathe part
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16936
Re: Help Identify Fowler Lathe part
Another comment. This piece looks like it is covered with grunge but no rust on the bed ways. Are the ways scraped?
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