The Home Machinist!

Jeanluc83, If you look at the 3rd picture , I found a company that makes the scale rail and Nails. I had to cut the ties. I will have to look for the name for you.
Thank you for your input, I will look in to the two

This build has been a lot of fun, I started it mid winter, and never thought I would be as far along as I am at this point. That is funny about this build is, I am not a machinist at all, I designed dental lab equipment, and needed many prototype parts made, so if I wanted things made in a timely fa...

I spent the day powder coating the engine parts. This is one engine ready to go, after honing the bore to give me a smooth movement of the piston, right on down to 7 lb of pressure. I am getting there

Nice Thank you for the share.

Getting good reviews makes it that much more fun. I will need to get larger tools to scale this little locomotive up, But I will get it done

A few more pictures of where I am at with the build. I put glass in the window that move, just for fun

Yes, I have looked in to Adirondack Live Steam, they are about 15 miles from me. I am planing to join as soon as this covid is over.
Thank you for your Kind words, It looks like I may be able to fire the engines up using air is a couple weeks

I have been a little busy of late, Just dropping off some pictures of where I am with my build.

Awesome, keep up the good work

I am dropping off a few pictures: Shift stop: I made this to stop the shift handle from bending away from the frame, it will look better once polished. Pump Layout I had to remove the frame assembly that the water tanks are attached to, The design in the drawing was wrong. with the pump kind of moun...

Thank you for your input. I would appreciate any information you are willing to part with. I am kind of late to the game, However I am learning a lot and enjoying more. I am looking forward to the 7.5 gauge build one of these days. Going to finish this build first, fine tune it , then move on to the...

I am sending you a few pictures of more progress I have made on the Locomotive. Shocks: The screw is a bored out 5/16 rod using a 8 turn wound spring made out of .050 music wire, and an 1/8 diameter ball to press down on the axel bearing. The 5/16 rod is locked in place using a SS locking ring. Wate...