The Home Machinist!

Thank you Ward!

I for one would definitely be interested in "everything that you need to build one" Allegheny drawings if they are available, so how do "we" go about getting in touch with Ed Yungling? Any idea if they are for the full size or model?

Nyle

I have Jim's drawings and will check on the drivers, as compared to the Allegheny drawings in the book: The Allegheny Lima's Finest by Eugene Huddleston & Thomas Dixon. The Berkshire had 69" drivers as compared to 67" on the Allegheny, and the Berk had 25/26" x 34 bore and stroke ...

Do yourself a favor, pull the collet cuck off and check the spindle taper. When I got my Leblond, the taper was all buggered up from chucks being installed without cleaning the taper first. I wound up having to regrind the spindle nose on mine .

Nyle

C & O historical society doesn't have the mechanical drawings for the Allegheny. I believe the California State Railroad museum does. To the best of my knowledge, Truson's drawings went to Roger Goldman but I may be wrong on that, Rob Gardner may have a better idea on that.

Nyle

That's a reasonable price considering it does both inch and metric threads. Does it come with the threading chart and dial for metric,, or just the change gears ? 1980's is when Leblond started to introduce metric threading on all their lathes, later they switched over to the camlock spindles and in...

Charles Balmer built an Allegheny in 3/4" scale , making over a 100 of his own castings. Andy built a 1/8 scale as well as a fellow in Australia. If your on Facebook it appears several times on the 1/8 scale Berkshire page run by Jim Krieder. No idea about drawings, I have asked around as well,...

My father told me to mix gasoline with kerosene, I'm guessing that's what my grandfather told him to do. Worked quite well and I never set myself or anything else on fire.....don't do that anymore though. Later on in life when I was a mechanic there was Safety Clean, which worked OK. Now there is al...

How do you go about boring a set of jaws accurately every time? Use an inside mic, such as the B&S Intirimik, where you get 3 points of contact , one on each jaw. Telescoping gauges will work as well if your part is small enough that the jaws encapsulate it, or you can get a good 2 points of con...

Brian,

Do a YouTube search of ; 1/4 scale Northern, also try searching for YouTube user; Petro062

Nyle

Looks like these wheels are for 5" scale? Such as the Redwood Valley? That's a wide wheel at 3.5".

Nyle

Oh, I am not close to being done by any means, regular work keeps getting in the way, but I have to think into the future. I'll shortly have a machine up and running that for the most will be dedicated to the production of my loco. Eventually I'll start a post of my build in the Grand Scales forum. ...