Re: Fabricating cylinders: Screwball or practical?
Hello Steve and Everyone, I'm not sure of the availability in your area, but try using a brass water pipe nipple instead of the steel pipe. The nipples can usually be found at the local hardware store and are not too terribly expensive. They're already cored and usually machine well. If you want to use bronze, and have further use of it, you can buy it at local supply houses (bearing suppliers, precision tool dealers, etc.) in 12 long pieces of the required diameter. It's also inexpensive in this form. Auto parts stores usually have various sizes and wall thickness' of bushings in stock. Hope your message blocker doesn't kick this message out for the use of the word nipple, Vance. grin Later, Trent
Re: gte has first run
vickie marie: that's exactly the plan ... i need to get the gates working before i get to the testing steamup but then i'll have some patient people over. thanks. \dmc At 11:45 PM -0800 11/21/02, vree wrote: Dave, Remember, it took us almost two years to get Kevin O'Connor's super duper deluxe track operational! I know that I'm one PCLS member who is looking forward to a new venue, but realistically, wait until you are comfortably ready. Then invite a small handful of steamers with a variety of locos to try it out with the understanding that they are to help you find the glitches and tweak whatever needs tweaking. In other words, they need to know that derailments could easily occur and to be prepared for such. Once you are satisfied with those results, THEN you have the real steam-up. Meantime, since the track is operational, you can run one of your own locos while you work on siding or bays or whatever! That makes it a bit more rewarding and fun to get those final items done. I learned a lot with Cmdr. O'Connor's track and layout building experience. It was grueling, but rewarding. Congratulations! And I do look forward to your photos! Vickie-Marie - Original Message - From: Dave Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Re: gte has first run At 7:35 PM -0800 11/19/02, Jeffrey Williams wrote: So should we all show up at 10:00 am this Saturday for your first steamup? === thanks to one and all who sent not only publicly encouraging words, but those who contacted me privately as well. jeff's note, while i'm sure was intended to be facetious, isn't too far off the mark. i am awaiting some of those bridge clamps from hillman and then will get the bridges working ... i don't really want guests until i can guarantee egress and right now getting out of the circle when the rails are all down can be exciting. i have a steamup-bay/storage yard that is now not connected to the main loop -- i'm going to have to build a turnout that is at an interesting angle to get the bay on-line to the mainline. plus, there have to be a lot more test runs -- i wouldn't want anything to happen to jeff's c-16, for example. rest assured that there will be an announcement on the pcls list soon about a steamup. \dmc -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^
OT: National Garden Railway Convention
Could anyone who attended the convention in Cincinnati please contact me off list? Thanks. \dmc -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^
Re: Re: gte has first run
?for me ? what gives ?? From: Dave Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/11/23 Sat AM 11:14:52 CST To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gte has first run vickie marie: that's exactly the plan ... i need to get the gates working before i get to the testing steamup but then i'll have some patient people over. thanks. \dmc At 11:45 PM -0800 11/21/02, vree wrote: Dave, Remember, it took us almost two years to get Kevin O'Connor's super duper deluxe track operational! I know that I'm one PCLS member who is looking forward to a new venue, but realistically, wait until you are comfortably ready. Then invite a small handful of steamers with a variety of locos to try it out with the understanding that they are to help you find the glitches and tweak whatever needs tweaking. In other words, they need to know that derailments could easily occur and to be prepared for such. Once you are satisfied with those results, THEN you have the real steam-up. Meantime, since the track is operational, you can run one of your own locos while you work on siding or bays or whatever! That makes it a bit more rewarding and fun to get those final items done. I learned a lot with Cmdr. O'Connor's track and layout building experience. It was grueling, but rewarding. Congratulations! And I do look forward to your photos! Vickie-Marie - Original Message - From: Dave Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Re: gte has first run At 7:35 PM -0800 11/19/02, Jeffrey Williams wrote: So should we all show up at 10:00 am this Saturday for your first steamup? === thanks to one and all who sent not only publicly encouraging words, but those who contacted me privately as well. jeff's note, while i'm sure was intended to be facetious, isn't too far off the mark. i am awaiting some of those bridge clamps from hillman and then will get the bridges working ... i don't really want guests until i can guarantee egress and right now getting out of the circle when the rails are all down can be exciting. i have a steamup-bay/storage yard that is now not connected to the main loop -- i'm going to have to build a turnout that is at an interesting angle to get the bay on-line to the mainline. plus, there have to be a lot more test runs -- i wouldn't want anything to happen to jeff's c-16, for example. rest assured that there will be an announcement on the pcls list soon about a steamup. \dmc -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^
Re: OT: National Garden Railway Convention
???what is it in regards too ?? From: Dave Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/11/23 Sat PM 12:19:33 CST To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: National Garden Railway Convention Could anyone who attended the convention in Cincinnati please contact me off list? Thanks. \dmc -- ^^^ Dave Cole Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton Everglades Steam Excursion Co. Pacifica, Calif. USA http://45mm.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^
