The Home Machinist!

Don't post much but here is me and my Mogul at Elm Street Station in Katy, TX
Brent

As David mentioned I did pick up the lift that he found and it did have several holes in the lower cylinder housing, the lower housing is filled with fluid and is subject to the air pressure applied to the lift, air pressure is used to force hydrualic fluid under the inner cylinder, so I had to fix ...

Railroad Warehouse has castings for andrews trucks, they are the tender trucks for the Heavy Mikado, the castings are very good quality.
Brent

Does anyone know how to get in touch with L.S. Manufacturing, the web site just says "closed for maint."
Thanks,
Brent

The problem seems to be that National Board requirements are not the same.

It sounds like you have a good relationship with the state boiler folks, have you talked with them about possible solutions or even ask what it would take to get a waiver or even exemption for all model boilers ? I think I would put that good relationship to work,
Good Luck!
Brent

I have been trying to decide how to build a lift for the track I am building and have been looking at all the comercially available lifts for a good while now. I was wanting it to have at least a 2000# capacity and that seemed to be a problem, but I just recieced the Northern tool master catlog and ...

Rick,
Don't worry about hardening your crankpins, just use them just like they are and should never have any trouble.
Brent
P.S.
People on this list spend far too much time telling folks what they should have done instead of answering questions.

You should call Bob at "Railroad Warehouse", I think you will find him to be one of, if not the best supplier in this hobby. I was just at his shop Friday, he has complete sets of castings and parts for several engines on the shelf and ready for shipment. I ordered a complete set of Heavy ...

I have built an Allen Mogul and American and never had to use anything bigger than a small handheld torch like you can buy at any hardware store and use mapp gas with it, I would still like to have a bigger torch but the small one works fine.

Frank Manns texas currently belongs to Mark Bing and is currently under going a partial rebuild.

I just wanted to respond to Steven Kuhn's remark about Ray Pennell. The locomotive he is talking about is a Little Engines Pacific built by Ray for Mark Rosemont, the engine was delivered 15 monthes ago and Mark Rosemont has not expressed to Steam Age USA, (Ray Pennell) any dissatisfaction with the ...