3/4" Scale J1e
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
been there, done that.
I put mine together with a dab of clear wood glue to hold it together so that I could drop it in from one end and man-handle (with tweezers) everything into place
after a few years of running all the glue was gone...(or buried in dirt).
I put mine together with a dab of clear wood glue to hold it together so that I could drop it in from one end and man-handle (with tweezers) everything into place
after a few years of running all the glue was gone...(or buried in dirt).
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
May I mention that the stiffness of the (leaf-) springs doesn't matter that much - as long as the equalizers are working freely as intended?
A big advantage then is the horizontal stability of the trucks in case the driver takes place on top of the tender
Even with very rigid springs It's working fine at the commonwealth trucks under my A`s tender!
Just my two cents
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asteamhead
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Hello My Friends
Very cool parts Asteamhead! Commonwealth trucks can be quite a handful to make. With all the spring and brake rigging it can go on and on. Here are the lids and journal boxes. These parts were all chemically blackened and then clear coated. This is the blackener used and it was purchased from McMaster. And here they are blackened and clear coated. This is the clear coat used from Ace Hardware. When painting small parts like these I like to use a carousel, so they can be rotated while painting. The round cardboard is what pizzas come on. I like pizza
Very cool parts Asteamhead! Commonwealth trucks can be quite a handful to make. With all the spring and brake rigging it can go on and on. Here are the lids and journal boxes. These parts were all chemically blackened and then clear coated. This is the blackener used and it was purchased from McMaster. And here they are blackened and clear coated. This is the clear coat used from Ace Hardware. When painting small parts like these I like to use a carousel, so they can be rotated while painting. The round cardboard is what pizzas come on. I like pizza
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Just cool
asteamhead
asteamhead
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
I put a piece of scrap (whatever) on a cheap lazy Susan bearing.
Doing that now with an entire tender
Used up all my wife's extra cookie sheets decades ago
Doing that now with an entire tender
Used up all my wife's extra cookie sheets decades ago
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
JBodenmann wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:23 am The round cardboard is what pizzas come on. I like pizza
Beer, pizza and trains. Life is good.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
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Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Here in Maine, pizza is round, but it comes in a square box….
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Is that anything like: pie are square?
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
No, pie are not square, pie are round, cornbread are square.......
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Hello My Friends
I only buy pizza to get the round bit of card board they arrive on. I just eat the pizzas to get rid of them...
Jack
I only buy pizza to get the round bit of card board they arrive on. I just eat the pizzas to get rid of them...
Jack
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Re: 3/4" Scale J1e
Hello My Friends
Here is a little on making tiny cotter pins. I have touched on this before. They will fit into a .020" hole in these .047" pins that hold the journal box lid and hinge together. These little pins were quite a challenge to make.
The cotter pins were made from .015" stainless wire.
First one end of the wire was clamped to the steel table and run across the flat surface of the small drill press. Any flat surface will do. Then a vise grip plier was hung on the other end to maintain some tension on the wire. Then the wire was gently draw filed. The wire was filed and measured until it was half thickness. In this case .007". The half round was snipped off 5/16" long and the loop formed around a small rod. The smallest commercially available cotter pins that I know of are .032" diameter. So for our models this technique can come in handy.
Happy Model Building
Jack
Here is a little on making tiny cotter pins. I have touched on this before. They will fit into a .020" hole in these .047" pins that hold the journal box lid and hinge together. These little pins were quite a challenge to make.
The cotter pins were made from .015" stainless wire.
First one end of the wire was clamped to the steel table and run across the flat surface of the small drill press. Any flat surface will do. Then a vise grip plier was hung on the other end to maintain some tension on the wire. Then the wire was gently draw filed. The wire was filed and measured until it was half thickness. In this case .007". The half round was snipped off 5/16" long and the loop formed around a small rod. The smallest commercially available cotter pins that I know of are .032" diameter. So for our models this technique can come in handy.
Happy Model Building
Jack