With the recent discussions about Del-Aire products, isn't there some kind of rotary shut-off valve that could substitute for the toggle? Alternately, the toggles themselves commercially available from some other source.
On another front, the local pharmacy supplies a small cylindrical plunger type gadget with one of my wife's prescriptions to measure her doses. She just discards them, but I absconded with a couple of them and connected them with a piece of tubing. "VOILA!" They work very well as a hydraulic plunger with air. I would think there should be a way to adapt these to model railroad use. I'll post pictures later. Bob Nicholson __________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Willam Fraley" <wjfraley@...> wrote: > > Many thanks to all the Del-Aire responders on this list, you have helped my > friend Rich very much. It does seem that a very common problem with the > Del-Air toggles is that they break off very easily. > > > > Another thing became very noticeable; that is, many model railroaders now > use the Tortoise switch machines, they seem to be the favorite now-a-days. > > > > One has to wonder why Craig won't sell off his Del-Aire business, as it > appears there is still a demand for the product? From what I'm told, it is > all still there, just like it was in use yesterday. > > > > Perhaps the Tortoise [and the like] have taken over the switch machine > market in model railroading? > > > > I'm sure you are aware of the many tropical storms we are having on the > entire [U.S. of A.] Eastern Coast. Unfortunately, yesterday Hershey and > central Pennsylvania got dumped on, like six inches of rain in and hour or > so, plus all that we had already had, raising it to 10 inches.. > > Well, about 1:30 yesterday, my basement started leaking around the > stair-well area. I very seldom if ever get water in my basement, but it did, > and now I'm vacuuming up water out of the carpet. > > > > The Jefferson Central sits above all that, so the trains still run, but > folks I'm old and this ain't easy. Frankly, I did use pre-caution > preparations for this one, but the rain was so heavy my preps just gave out. > Mary and I are so fortunate, many of our friends [in town] had their > basements totally emerged in water. (According to my son, you can pick up on > all this on WHP.com. - http://www.whptv.com/default.aspx) > > > > Bobby (Werre) , we'd love to send you people in Texas all of this water! > > > > Once again gang, thanks again, when the call goes out, you sure are very > helpful. > > "S"ee Ya, > > Bill (Fraley) > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
