The Home Machinist!

So do you not use a blower? I would think that there would need to be some vacuum up front. I didn't mean killing all the vacuum, just keeping it to a reduced level. A blower is key to combustion of propane as with everything else. There needs to be some vacuum for propane but not an excess amount ...

I think over the years of looking at this it comes down to two schools of thought. One is to kill the vacuum at the smokebox by shoving the blast pipe up into the petticoat or near it, the other is to open up the auxiliary air intake at the bottom of the firebox to prevent a vacuum from being pulled...

Was not aware of that! What do you think the percentage is who don't complete one? I know that in the automotive world that only 1/4 of the people who take their car apart for a frame off restoration will actually get it back together and running again. Is it similar to that? Hard to say. One in fi...

Look at that, this one is dirt cheap, also saw virginia 4-4-0 plans that are cheap. Trying to understand why some plans are expensive and some cheap. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Raritan-by-Bill-Morewood-Model-Locomotive-instructions-book-on-CD-ROM/312442643979?_trkparms=aid%3D1110012%26algo%3DSPLICE.S...

You're not just paying for the paper when you pay for drawings. you're paying for a copyrighted work that, as Rich Carlstedt points out, took hundreds of hours to develop and perfect, and you're paying for a small business owner's costs, overhead and profit, like any other product that is made of ra...

Not to change subjects, but what is the paint color on the jacket on that 2-6-6 Eureka in your pictures? I need to get some of that for a project I'm in the middle of. It may be stovepipe blue. It's hard to fake Russian iron these days, but a lot of modelers used blued stovepipe as jacketing to imi...

I can actually access the site right now. Is it still down for some folks? The domain is registered at DirectNic and the name servers are set to servers designed to handle expired domains, so it does appear to be expired. I may be looking at a cached version of the site. Daris Nevil appears to be a ...

Here is the video I did about the Shays, as part of bonus footage about Ron & Peter's railroad. This was shot at Bitter Creek.

YouTube no longer supports clickable links in its videos so you'll have to ignore the 'menu options' before and after the video.

Here's some pictures of the Ulin Mason Bogie. This one was built by a gentleman in Utah. It is currently being overhauled.

Here are some pictures of me on the Ulin-designed beam engine built by John Dolph and Peter Moseley. This one is a bit different from his original design which had an on-board water tank.

And here are interior photos. It has to be seen to be believed.

Here are some pictures of the exterior of the coach car Ulin built for Ron Schmidt.