My trestle is all cedar. I cut 2x6 cedar boards that were 10-14 feet long into the
dimensional small scale lumber I required. Made lots of sawdust! Cedar saw dust
really keeps weeds down, but looks orange when wet. I painted each leg with below
ground fence post paint. Most of the trestle is clear
So what's that thing made of? Pine, spruce, basswood? ;]
Guy here at work asked, so now I'm curious!
Trot, the wondering, fox...
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Gary Lane wrote:
> http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy/A trestle you can easily walk under.
/\_/\TrotFox\ Always remem
Thanks for the feedback.
The rail bender I inherited from a past club member used roller bearings that
allow the foot of the rail under the roller bearings and the rail head is
pressed on the bearings. Unless I press down firmly on the rail while bending
the foot of the rail can lift and this caus
Oddly enough I do have some extra 8' tall bents. They are three different
styles. I had to build them to decide which looked best and to test the
strength of each style. The shorter bents already went to a friend's RR.
I sure know how to speed up bent production! And I know how to make a bent
with
I found on close examination, that the Aristo tie strips seem to allow quite a
bit of play (at least with AristoCraft's stainless steel rail). I had little
problem on the trestle since I could always hand spike if rail was moving a bit.
On 1/4" minus gravel roadbed the custom bent rails must match
Thankyou Keith,
I agree with Clark (I usually do for some reason!) Your explanation has
helped me too, in a few of your easy to understand sentences, I am
considerably enlightened about this dam magical valve gear.
Now I realise that my Aster Stirling needs an adjustment of the eccentrics-
as a f
Vance, are you willing to share the frame extension
modification with the group at this time? I am making
a plantation engine out of my Ruby and have stalled at
the extension as I did not want to disassemble the
backhalf of the engine with base plate.
mike
--- VR Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great explanation, Keith. I have printed it off & will stick it in the valve
gear books that I have never understood !
Art
In a message dated 12/31/00 3:01:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have been reading notices from the 16mmngm list. They have been talking
> as of late about the Accucraft Excelsior.
Chuck,
I scanned the Accucraft ad in Garden Rail and posted it to the FSOL photos
p
Keith Manison wrote:
> Not at all Art. Valve gears is one of "my things", so perhaps I can add
> a little.
Boy, did you ever! Your plain language discussion of lap and lead are
the clearest that I have ever read and understood. Thanks Keith. See
you in 10 days at DH2001.
> The book "Locomoti
Hello Everyone,
I realize that this is an old subject (even though it keeps reoccurring, much to my
delight) but I came across something that might be of interest or help to someone.
On Roundhouse Engineering's web page they have almost the exact setup for valve
guides that I mentioned a whil
Tren,
Don't worry, I spell it wrong all the time, as you will have noticed!
The big question is, how do you pronounce it? I have heard it pronounced
at least 4 ways, one with a "V" instead of a "W". Does any one know the
definative pronunciation?
Cheers
Keith
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> As my understanding of steam engine valve gears is minimal I ought perhaps to keep
>my head below the parapet.
Not at all Art. Valve gears is one of "my things", so perhaps I can add
a little. Walscherts gear nicely separates the two functions any valve
gear has to
I forgot to run the spell check on the e-mail where I called it "Walsherts"
instead of Walschaerts valve gear. I couldn't remember exactly how to spell it at
the moment and was going to let the spell checker take care of it. Oops!
Just trying to maintain a little dignity,
Trent
As my understanding of steam engine valve gears is minimal I ought perhaps to
keep my head below the parapet.
I believe the correct name for this is the 'single eccentric link motion'. I
imagine it is a primitive arrangement which preceeded Walschaerts' work &
therefore for manufacturers to t
on 31/12/00 12:42 am, Charles W. Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If that is true, I believe Accucraft has made a serious marketing flaw!
>
> At 05:31 PM 30/12/00 -0500, Chuck Walters wrote:
>> I have been reading notices from the 16mmngm list. They have been talking
>> as of late about the
In a message dated 00-12-31 00:12:42 EST, you write:
<< I have posted a picture of the prototype >>
Well done Vance. I am getting down to the finishing touches on mine and
will send / post a picture soon.
Salty
At 09:55 PM 30/12/00 -0600, Trent Dowler wrote:
> I e-mailed Trevor at The Signal Box asking for more information. With the
>exception of telling me that it had a single piston valve between the
>frame, he
>had no information available other than what's already been discussed here. He
>did men
Vance,
Any idea on price yet? And..I have already purchased the cab and pilot
from you, would the pilot extension and rear coal storage area with the
truck be made available as an option? Or would we have to purchase the
whole kit in total to make it work?
Chuck Walters
http://home.twcny.r
> I e-mailed Trevor at The Signal Box asking for more information. With
the
> exception of telling me that it had a single piston valve between the
frame, he
> had no information available other than what's already been discussed
here. He
> did mention it having "semi-Walsherts" valve gear. Not
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