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Mike, You may be right about the twelve coaches, but I would prefer to see her heading a set of Gresley articulateds in teak!! This could tempt me back to cellar railroading, but I'd have to swap my Myford for a watchmakers model and an eyeglas!. Bert. Now living in Austria. (ex-Darlington!) L N E R. - Bert Edmunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Steve Shyvers wrote: Royce, I used Alpha Metals 2% silver / 98% tin soft solder Gonna get some this weekend. I used a butane micro torch made by Bernz-o-matic. Is this the one that has a hose connecting to a standard propane bottle ? That's what I have. The 2% silver solder is very easy to work with. It flows much easier than tin/lead solder and the flux cleans up with water. That's encouraging news. The higher melting temperature silver solder provides some piece of mind with regard to the tanks' integrity in service compared to tin/lead solder. Steve Consider your advice taken. Thanks. royce in SB
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Geoff ... When I first set rail to tie on the East Serendipity Railway these many years ago I never thought I would be such a trend setter ... having built dual gauge track with gauges 1 and 2 some years ago, I was pleased to discover that with the rail width used I was left with about 16.5mm (i.e. HO gauge) between the two rails opposite the common rail. (And I was only thinking of running some standard gauge equipment to highlight the nature of our narrow gauge prototypes.) ||--Ga 1-||-HO-|| ||--Ga 2---||-|| Pete Jobusch At 04:53 PM 10/2/2003 -0700, you wrote: Bob, Thanks! A unique concept if you ask me. Having the boiler and heating in the tender allows for room in the locomotive boiler space for cylinder or cylinders. I suspect they use an oscillator- or oscillators. Well, my first loco was an O gauge Hornby c/w in 1930--so I guess I'll be on the corner begging for pounds sterling to get this Hornby set!! I have HO track, OO locos and structures. So will all steamersbe installing HO track between the gauge 1 rails?? My God, this is complicating the hobby! It goes on--N scale--Z scale?? Geoff.
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If you have 45mm and 32mm dual gauge you can run N, 9mm, on the narrow gauge. Robb in MI ||--Ga 1-|| ||-- O ||--N---|| ||--Ga 1-||-HO-|| ||--Ga 2---||-||
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Royce, Yes, it's the torch that has a hose connecting to a standard propane bottle, with the shut off valve and regulator as part of the bottle fitting. The nozzle is adjustable to control the flame size. Also I referred to it as a butane torch. It's a propane torch. Let us know how it works out. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Shyvers wrote: Royce, I used Alpha Metals 2% silver / 98% tin soft solder Gonna get some this weekend. I used a butane micro torch made by Bernz-o-matic. Is this the one that has a hose connecting to a standard propane bottle ? That's what I have. The 2% silver solder is very easy to work with. It flows much easier than tin/lead solder and the flux cleans up with water. That's encouraging news. The higher melting temperature silver solder provides some piece of mind with regard to the tanks' integrity in service compared to tin/lead solder. Steve Consider your advice taken. Thanks. royce in SB
