The Home Machinist!

Work today on roughing out a square into a round wheel blank 1 down 3 to go

Ordered 1 inch by 8 inch bar stock 8 inches long 4 pieces to cut the Wheels out of on the rotary table, Plus 1 3/8
Cold rolled for the axles will pick up Friday if you're wondering how much the steel cost 3 dollars

Hello BC!! Original plan was to put a Kohler 8 horsepower in cab couple to Eaton hydrostatic 11 pump then a single hydraulic motor between the axles. New plan is to experiment with a motor on each axle 24 volt if not successful I will put a single motor with 2 horsepower and a 4 QD controller.

Looks like a collet for Bridgeport M head or a little clausing milling machine

Finally decided to go with tapered roller bearings on the axles but the inner diameter on the bearings would not allow me to use my real trains Wheels! So I must order new steel for wheels and axles so I should be back working on this by the middle of April

Here in Ohio it's about 75 to 85 a pound depending on grade of Steel so your stuff over there in Germany sounds pretty affordable that's what they usually charge for cut-offs 50 cents a pound

Boy I sure like to know if he had blueprints to that engine??? Looks to be a 2 or 3 series Berkshire can't see the number to tell

The motor RPMs is 1750, the small pulley diameter on the motor is 1-3/4,2-1/8,2-5/8,3-1/8 with 1/2 inch bore, the upper pulley is 3-1/8,3-5/8,4,4-1/2 with 3/4 bore, hope this helps you

There's a couple of videos on YouTube

Jim if you're talkin about the 14 in Delta metal wood bandsaw I have two of them I'll check them diameters tonight

I use an Armstrong tool holder that was meant to be used with brazed carbide cutters, only I use quarter inch high speed Steel with a real nice curve radius I think the radius was 3/8 ? But you can take a pretty good cut and leave a good finish surface to my surprise

That would be my favorite choice for a Mikado in 2.5"scale ! also would like to build M-1 The rail car after I finish my Plymouth locomotive and sp1 Little Giant build