The Home Machinist!

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.

there you go => problem solved.

much slicker than my 'turret' that mounts in the tailstock quill.....

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...

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....

How they smell -> kinda depends on what they have been eating...

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....

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...

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...

ah...now it comes into perspective.

have a model T like that.

You cannot tell that it has hydraulic brakes until you get really close....

always loses points at car shows because of this -> but would not drive it across a parking lot without.

i get my methanol from a racing fuel supplier: $50 for a 5 gallon can.....very pure....burns clean with very little odor....

other stuff, won't ignite in the burner I am using....

Green coke is also known as uncalcined coke...which is what comes out of the bottom of the distillation towers BEFORE it is put back in to remove all of the volital material. You can Google search it.. .it is readily combustible as opposed to blast furnace coke which is pure carbon and does not burn...