The Home Machinist!

Harold, Again you take the cake...

Sad that 'Discover Live Steam' doesn't stay a bit more up to date: https://www.discoverlivesteam.com/disco ... page2.html
Doug's ad is still there.... Did Doug have a good sense of humor?

BAdams wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 15, 2020 7:26 pm

You might try Trainmaster Models in Georgia.
According to a capture on the "Wayback Machine" in 2009 of Doug's website they were selling his books.
https://www.trainmastermodels.com/

Brook

Thanks Brook,
I checked - to no avail... Still searching.
BillC

Mr. Clemens, I just perused the books on the site linked to by Mr. Adams. Sorry to say, I did not find Doug's book on their list of books. If you have a specific question please ask as I worked with Doug proofreading his books for him. I have a copy of all his Civil Engineering for Riding Railroad ...

SZuiderveen wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:17 pm

Doug passed in March, 2018.

So sorry to hear this... also sorry to open profound wounds. With greatest respect.

Hello,
Looking for Volume 2 - "Bridges".... Wrote Douglas van Veelen but get no response... anyone know an alternative way to order this text? I have Volume 1 and it's so very good, like to get Volume 2 as well.
Thanks kindly!

Hey Dave, are you in NJ, PA or FL? We need to keep up with you so where are you 'stationed' now?
Bill

not disagreeing with you, just making an observation https://www.homedepot.com/s/3%252F8%2520copper%2520tubing?NCNI-5 The designation or use is the key to the whole thing, not to say that a plumber cannot use refrigeration tubing or vice-versa but it is certainly sad to order a few hundred dollars ...

1/4" copper tubing is 3/8" OD.... if you're going to use Ø 3/4" tubing for flue tubes, you had better bore a Ø 7/8" hole for it.

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Keep in mind that refrigeration tubing is measured by it's outside diameter or O.D.: ¼, ½, 5/8, ¾, 7/8, 1-1/8, 1-3/8, 1-5/8, etc. Plumbing tubing is measured by it's inside diameter or I.D. : 1/8, ¼, ½, ¾, 1, 1-1/4, 1-1/2, 1-3/4,etc.

BC

Also try to open up and dry all your piping, injector lines, and steam cylinders. I’ve found water pockets in all these places, sometimes years after last use. Well 'DANG' to that! The physics of mother nature are winning in all aspects - it's her desire to take everything to it's basic element. Ev...