The Home Machinist!

scratch around the glass with a dremel roto-wheel, crack it off...it will follow the scratch

wrap with some masking tape, chuck in a drill press or lathe chuck and polish the end square on silicon carbide cloth.

been doing this for 40 years....

need picture(s)???

a Mohawk with outside admission (slide) valves........

it does not get run much in the past 25 years...

It looks like this (or did 35 years ago when I completed it. It's mostly Langworthy 3/4" but I had to trash quite a few of the castings and work from scratch..the cylinders being the biggest problem. Made a sandwich, welded it up one section at a time. finished hudson001-small.jpg finished hudson002...

pity we cannot ask Harold.....

rob's comment is why I asked about fittings...
I think i may have a couple of feet floating around the basement. I will look when I get home next week (in California now).

how much tube do you actually need (assuming no spares)?

what fittings do you need?

Tell me what part numbers you need..

Is this critter still available?

It will work for what you want...

Jack: I had the same problem with the pilot truck brake cylinder on my J1 -> no clearance. When I got to looking about making it smaller, found that I needed additional clearance for curves, and ended up making a much smaller cylinder. That was 35 years ago, and I don't remember exactly the size cyl...