The Home Machinist!

No chance of a non-Facebook posting host? I would love to follow your progress. RussN Yup, there is. Web site is coming, for now we are taking what is quick and free. Right now the local government us eating up our cash reserves faster than ballast and ties!!! Most likely, what we post there will b...

A good place to follow the progress of the new startup! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085875515887 After you get there please select "Follow". This helps Facebook insure our site! BTW The Hurlburt has just been converted to 15". We will post videos on that site soon! Scotty

You have plans available for those?
The excursion car looks very interesting to me.
We have a volunteer arcihitect working on pullman similar to the Sandley as time allows. He sent me some .stl files that I 3d printed to begin on the concept.
Scotty

We are in need also.
Sahauro Central Shortline Railroad. 15" in North Phoenix.
Scotty

Ahh, fuel pump. Makes perfect sense. Iron, we thought about it for awhile, but for our rare needs decided to let that pass... good luck tho.
Scotty

Welcome:
"Foundry Pump....."?
I had a Smithy Granite XT 1324 for awhile also.
Scotty

A lot to digest...
I can see the advantage on the larger dia's.
Deserves some contemplation.
Thanks for all the input!!!
Scotty

Russ That would be interesting to watch... more so to help. I am curious, do you remember the interference you used with those drivers & tires? A few years back I helped.... mostly watched... some fellows put a starter ring gear on a fly wheel. There was some pucker factor present there also. Sc...

And if I can us the heat/cold method, should I then increase the amount of the interference fit?
Scotty

I think we have pretty much come up with a good interference fit at a one thousand per inch of shaft diameter. Now.... If I can freeze my axles, and adequately heat my wheels & hubs... what would then be a PREFERRED interference? By doing this I have reduced the mechanical resistance to mating t...

Bob: I visited with Chuck about this system and I know he said that he had drawings for it. I hope they didn't get away with another piece of equipment. Scotty PS After I logged off I was thinking of where the plans may be and I realize I may have mispoken. He said that he had built it from plans, d...

Sometime in 1955, when I was three years old, my Parents left North Carolina and move the family to Alaska, where my dad began work as a track patrolman on the Alaska Railroad in town of Curry. We lived there until the hotel burned down. That began the end of the town and the family relocated to Chu...