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- Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 1.5" Scale B&M 2-8-0 Consolidation
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24001
Re: 1.5" Scale B&M 2-8-0 Consolidation
Fantastic Adam, don't paint it. Just kidding, you have to, but it really shows your craftsmanship in its raw state.
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to plug leaks in smoke box?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 84437
Re: How do plug leaks in smoke box?
Greg Lewis did some measurements he documented in this thread of the external smokebox and stack temps:
http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/vie ... res#p16207
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to plug leaks in smoke box?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 84437
Re: How do plug leaks in smoke box?
Permatex 80335 Muffler and Tailpipe Sealer is a sodium silicate paste that might work too, and easy to find.
Edit: corrected the part number, thanks.
Edit: corrected the part number, thanks.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: The $460.19 oil change.....
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10005
Re: The $460.19 oil change.....
Geez, all these filters on top, maybe they installed my engine upside down? It's older though, 2009.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: The $460.19 oil change.....
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10005
Re: The $460.19 oil change.....
If I had opened the hood I could have solved the problem probably by just tightening down the oil filter plus the price of a spray can of EngineBright. Probably not. The Subaru flat 4 oil filter mounts upside down on the bottom of the engine, you have to reach up from below between two exhaust pipe...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:05 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to get started?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9654
Re: How to get started?
I don't know if a maker space would work for access to machine tools for the time being, someplace like Make Salt Lake? https://www.makesaltlake.org/ Honestly, those environments are tough because you usually have a limited time slot and have to leave the space as you found it, so between setup and ...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Making Boxcar Ends
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10435
Re: Making Boxcar Ends
Very scale! My drawings have the prototype bottom two panels made from 1/4" plate and the top from 3/16", so 22 ga at 0.029" is within a thou or two of the bottom panels.FLtenwheeler wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:50 am The parts will be made from 22 gauge steel. Precision Steel car makes theirs from 24 gauge steel.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: 1/8 Scale USRA Freight Car Parts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7727
Re: 1/8 Scale USRA Freight Car Parts
Here's a photo of an appropriate car.
Edit: I should note this is a double-sheathed USRA box and Tim's poling pockets are correct for a single-sheathed car, they're slightly different. Brake wheel is the same though!- Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: USRA SS Boxcar in 1/8 Scale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4194
Re: USRA SS Boxcar in 1/8 Scale
I thought similarly, it's unfortunate all of the three pieces are unique but it's going to be easier to press the corrugations that way. Are you thinking one die with all 5 corrugations or a die with a single corrugation and some kind of registration to get them spaced correctly? I haven't looked at...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: USRA SS Boxcar in 1/8 Scale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4194
Re: USRA SS Boxcar in 1/8 Scale
Tim, very interesting project! I've off and on been working on drawing a 5/5/5 corrugated end in Fusion360 but haven't gotten very far.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: WTB Baker valve gear castings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7702
Re: WTB Baker valve gear castings
That was Steve Gnas, who's calling the business Live Steam Locomotives: viewtopic.php?t=112800
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Requesting assistance for board issues
- Replies: 28
- Views: 408062
Re: Requesting assistance for board issues
As followup, I switched my settings on the phone and saved a series of photos using the jpeg format. File sized jumped from the 2.8 MB Apple format to 4.8MB for legacy jpegs for each photo. Almost a 100% increase in file size. So far as I can tell, the three aspect ratios programmmed into the Apple...