Hi Ken and everyone, best Holiday wishes to all!
Now to the points
I read in a NASG Dispatch that someone inquired about producing three point
track gauges for S, and that Billy Click new of the whereabouts of the original
sand casting pattern board for the three point track gauges, originally created
and built by Peter Loeb of Loeb Investments, Houston Texas.
This was my firm and was sold to Billy Click and Gale Hall before I left
Houston, Texas. The pattern board also contained patterns for 3' narrow gauge
and dual gauge track gauges. All the sand cast three point track gauges were
machined to NASG/NMRA standards for code 172,148,125/6, 100. (83 not common at
that time) 70 and for narrow gauge code 55 if memory serves me.
Before Loeb Investments was sold: All the very precise machining was done by
Jack Troxel, who recieved minimal compensation to keep prices low for S
gaugers. All the other work: creating, design, making pattern board... to
casting, cleaning,stamping code on gauge, advertising and marketing was done by
me. My track gauges were distinguished by a streamlined T design with a
vertical centered fin, heavy durable construction and very precisely machined
rail head guides. The gauges were sold all over the world and to a number of
hobby shops around the country, amongst them "Caboose Hobbies" in Denver, Co.
Since I joined the S online groups, I have recieved several inquiries/requests
for brass three point track gauges. Is there really any intrest in these
gauges? It would take hundreds to thousands to justify doing a casting
production run!!!! Then one would have to find a willing machinist to machine
the brass blanks to the various code widths and precise gauges. In addition
there are the costs of tooling, fixtures and jigs and milling cutters (which
were frequently destroyed by sand inclusions in the cast brass)
----- Original Message -----
From: ken garber
Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: [SSTOT] S Scale Gauges
On 12/15/06, Scaler164 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Once and for all, I would like to know the following :
> 1. Are there "ANY" track gauges of any kind, size, shape, color,
> style and/or standard available in S scale?
".... have one shaped in a T-form (cast-brass?) and another that's a
bar of machined brass. I don't recall where I got them. One may be BTS.
They're both Code 100
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