The Home Machinist!

There is also something to be said for completing an otherwise excellent model that wasn’t finished due to the passing of the builder.
Not only as a tribute to the builder but also so their family can see the project completed.
Keith

i placed an order with Godshall’s for several sizes of scale nuts and bolts on Friday, and they arrived today (Monday) just three days later.
Excellent service!

Keith

I always saw the five gallon can of gear dope on the running board. At least that is where it was on the Shay I ran.

another note... i have no way of dropping the fire. How do you clean ashes out from under the grates? And if you have a shovel…you have a way to drop the fire. Just dig it out. But you really need a way to drop your fire. If the grates are not permanently attached, use your hook to grab the grates ...

At the end of the day ready to shutdown if I'm carrying more fire than I intended I'll block the stack with a small scrap of wood or a rag to stop the natural draft through the boiler. The fire will go out fairly quickly. With an occasional stir the glowing coals go dark. If you cap the stack with ...

aopagary wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 9:52 am of course not... it was about 15-20 minutes before the pressure lowered to 40 psi (it was about 60 psi when the leak became severe), at this point there were still glowing coals, but it was far from a "ripping fire".

The FIRST thing you should have done is to dump the fire entirely.

Not miniature railroad…..but a fun cartoon anyhow.
https://youtu.be/oI0JdwynwrM

Dick, when I started on the Lehigh Valley RR many years ago…..the diesel version of the number 6 brake was still common. It is what I learned on and it was a very good brake. No pressure maintaining with a No.6 brake. To get the same effect we would crank back the feed valve and let the train line l...

No 6ET brake? The 26L looks out of place to my ancient eyes……

Keith

Here in Maine, pizza is round, but it comes in a square box….

Looks right at home in the living room alongside the other steam models.

Keith

And for many of us, getting back up from our hands and knees to oil them is something we would rather not do. Dick…that is not an issue with 3/4” scale on elevated tracks. No getting down on your knees to oil, or stoke the fire, clean the ashes etc. Everything is up in the air on the elevated trest...