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I think the steam hobby is a rather temporary occupation in this case...

If a PC user wants an IT specialist to tell him which button to press when any error occurs, the result certainly will not be the specialist showing him this button. And this is not because the specialist is unpolite. Understanding this could be helpful if the PC user does not want to be nicknamed &...

@Steve: I did not thank you for your reply including the image https://i.postimg.cc/K4XKsNW6/004-Oval-Reverse-Steps.png yet, so many thanks late! Is this your own result, or is the valve gear behind this diagram downsized exactly from a real (original sized) valve gear? If not, does anyone here have...

Hello, as I did not know where to publish the links I just found, I append them here. Who doesn't like this, please ignore it ;-) http://www.rgusrail.com/manuals.html On the book specific subsites, look at the link for downloading the full book: "Download a word searchable PDF version of this b...

Hello Steve,
could you also post some diagram for bakward gear?
I would be glad to see in this diagram if (or how much) it is really true that Baker valve gear was rather weak on riding backward.
Best regards
VGC

But there is an absolutely promising way to make it even more simple: Just throw away all your tooling, only keep the hammer. Then you can be sure that ANY problem will exactly look like a nail

The optimization rules within the program are the same as always before. So they are just as simple as always before. The difference is that after changing a main dimension (e.g. the cylinder position), you do not have to calculate or design for hours or more to get the same diagram quality again. T...

Hello, I've tried a little bit with the URLs on the previous page of the discussion. Here is my result: "Walschaert Valve Gear Design" pages: https://ia800304.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/2/items/railwaymechanica91newy/railwaymechanica91newy_jp2.zip&file=railwaym...

After several months of weekend work on the program, now there is a large update concerning English translation of the whole website, much easier access for website visitors and many other (rather hidden) little changes.

Is it possible that you ordered a single test magazine?
You can choose if you want to get it regularly or not.
Perhaps they can send you also the missing editions since then.

Do you know www.gartenbahn-werkstatt.com ? It is written in German AND in English. Although the English text often is shorter (which perhaps could change if the supplier gets enough requests for this), there seem to be lots of people buying it who do not speak German. I often read that people here i...

When you are young, you have possibility to save a little bit money by spending lots of more time e.g. using scrap material. When you are getting older, you have much less time, and you will notice that you cannot buy back your lifetime that you had wasted by desperately trying to turn scrap into so...