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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Tailstock Mod
- Replies: 9
- Views: 190
Re: Tailstock Mod
Only thing in my shop with a date is the 4'x8' piece of 1/4" brass plate that has a freight date on it. Otherwise I do not want to remember how many decades some of this stuff has been sitting around. Some of the stuff goes back to my first loco in the 1970s that "I will save for later, mi...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell, Trade, Wanted, Free!
- Topic: Free-horizontal mill and south bend shaper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 301
Re: Free-horizontal mill and south bend shaper
Sure . Just hire a rigger and a truck. It's a FREE MILL.
I would love to have it also, but would need to build a shop to hold it -> or get my wife to give up her dance room
I would love to have it also, but would need to build a shop to hold it -> or get my wife to give up her dance room
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Tailstock Mod
- Replies: 9
- Views: 190
Re: Tailstock Mod
What ..do you put dates on bar stock?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Little Engines Pacific
- Replies: 2
- Views: 176
Re: Little Engines Pacific
get to a local club and make your case.
if people don't fall all over themselves to help you -> find another club!!!!!
you will get all the assistance you need, first hand, face to face, hand on loco -> which is the only way to do it.
if people don't fall all over themselves to help you -> find another club!!!!!
you will get all the assistance you need, first hand, face to face, hand on loco -> which is the only way to do it.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Tailstock Mod
- Replies: 9
- Views: 190
Re: Tailstock Mod
there you go => problem solved.
much slicker than my 'turret' that mounts in the tailstock quill.....
much slicker than my 'turret' that mounts in the tailstock quill.....
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Atlas shaper
- Replies: 7
- Views: 424
Re: Atlas shaper
you may want to look at how South Bend Shapers handled the linkage. I seem to remember it was a lot simpler than the Atlas -> and may lend itself more to 'home brew'. I think that I could make a reversible ratchet and adjustable linkage a lot easier than going through mounting a stepper motor and as...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1408
Re: fuel topic
interesting, since the welsh supplier is now completely out of the digging business. most of the heritage railways in the UK hated the Polish coal...because of what you just described. the firemen that I know called it Polish Black S**t, but had to run it and were always fighting clinkers and slate....
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1408
Re: fuel topic
How they smell -> kinda depends on what they have been eating...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1408
Re: fuel topic
A tank is tank. A way of holding flammable liquid. My first was just sheet metal bent and soldered to fit in the coal bunker to prove a point. It worked, but was in the way of the controls and needed to be bigger Current tank is made from 2x4 steel tubing and makes a ride on frame for my riding car....
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1408
Re: fuel topic
well what i meant harold was like with bituminous if you get it stoked up just right with the right amount of scoops and you get that yellow sulphuric smoke out of the stack. welsh doesn't have the same impurities to give off that same yellow smoke as bituminous does. so for as much as welsh was gr...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1408
Re: fuel topic
no on the dust compote.....tried that and it all fell apart and out the grate.
probably yes on the grapefruit lumps...is what I used to gather up here...
probably yes on the grapefruit lumps...is what I used to gather up here...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Refurbishing my Railroad
- Replies: 79
- Views: 73715
Re: Refurbishing my Railroad
ah...now it comes into perspective.