and he notes - I believe what you are looking at is one side of an AAR Switcher truck drop equalizer assembly made by the fellow from Washington State (John Beveridge comes to mind. I remember that he took over the Port Able brass parts line from Bernie DeLa Torre and added to it including a switcher truck of which this is a part). It takes two of these per truck
The castings in the photo are assembled with the 'U' shaped spacers to form a two piece equalizer which straddles the journal boxes, ala prototype. When assembled into the cast frame, the 'U' shaped spacers hold the bottom of the springs. They're a bitch to assemble as one needs at least three hands. The one I have has the sides pinned and soldered together. That's my take - maybe somebody else has more info. Raleigh At 11:15 PM 2/6/2005, Richard Karnes wrote: >All -- > >Dave Engle and I are trying to identify a mystery sprue of brass truck >parts. (See "Mystery Casting" in the "photos" section.) The sprue >consists of twin drop equalizers plus two little squares with U-shaped >cutouts. The two holes in each equalizer appear to be threaded. > >If anyone can identify what this is part of, and/or who marketed it, >we'd appreciate your input. > >Dick Karnes > > >The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to >reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail >software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you >on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. > >Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, >view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
