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Charlie, What Kap says. Paul Brien, who for reader's benefit, began his working life at age 15 at Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft during the War, rose to Head of QC at one of the South's major Tool & Die works, was used to working to close fits. He also was open to using new techniques and material...

My understanding has always been that the Dockstader programs were intended to be PROOFING programs, a tool, for testing designs for which the builder developed the variables. In the last version of Dockstader Walschaerts gear I have, IIRC there were about 57 variables to be determined.

Scrapped?? Surely you must be joking. Like many other model thefts, this was in all probability a targeted theft and the loco was whisked out of the country within hours, and is now in a private collection.

Dick, Here's a repost of my shop relighting project: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Re: LED shop lights? Post by gwrdriver » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:05 pm Greg, Here's your follow -up: I knew at some point I posted the information on my LED re-lamping a few years ago (2018), and ...

I have, and my worktop surfaces are covered with an off-white Formica (or Wilson-Art) and are the best worktop surfaces I've ever had. Neither are glued on. I lay it out flat and put some weight on it for a couple of days and it lays dead flat and doesn't move. I don't do anything that involves heav...

Thanks for the comments. I was inclined to retain the flat belt drive anyway, if no significant improvment would be had by going to newer technology. I'm aware of the advantges 3ph and balancing.

The machine is the "Universal Grinder", made by Draper & Hall Co, Middletown CT, and it came from the Engineering School machine shop of Vanderbilt University. My next door neighbor in high school (when I first became interested in steam engines and machining) was a professor of Mech E...

Rich,
I'm ready with my benchtop test setup . . . if they need me.

#576 was re-wheeled and the boiler set this week. Boiler steam test scheduled for sometime in the Fall.

All this reminds me I'll need to build one of these for myself for some future work and I now recall reading about the MEW bender.

That was just the first downloadable drawing I came to and I can't vouch for its flexibility and performance. There are definitely many others out there designed with flexibility and performance for the model builder in mind, perhaps simpler to build, so I'd look at a few others before spending too ...

Over time there have been dozens of bender designs published in various model engineering magazines, intended for "model" tube sizes, 1/16" to 3/8" diam. I don't have a specific article, or list of articles on hand to post but a start would be to do a Google search. A search for ...