I would suggest staying away from Aluminum Bronze. The aluminum bronzes
require special (read expensive and hard to get) fluxes to silver braze
properly. Regular fluzes do not clean properly on aluminum bronze so it's
basically like soldering without flux. Not very nice. What you want is a
phospho
Henner,
Here are a couple of pix of a homemade lubricator that is tee'd into a
vertical steamline. The steamline runs through the boiler's firebox and
up to the engine's steamchest. The lubricator works well.
The section of the pipe from the lubricator to the tee junction rises
about 12 mm. You
Gary,
You know how it is! labor rates, including skilled labor are very
very low in China and they are now producing some excellent products.
Labor in Japan and the other developed nations cannot compete. I'll
tell you one thing, it ain't going to last. I will have to stay with
Aster until Acc
I think you made the price stick in my mind Vance!
How can they make it for that price? That is amazaing. Are they making
pistons with rings or just metal to metal?
Steaming & Sparking over Terror Trestle in Eugene, Oregon ~ Gary
http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy
http://community.webshots.com/
Would Todd Dukes, Las Vegas of this list please give me a call. I see
you are signed up. Did you know I host monthly Gauge One live steam
steamups here at my house in Las Vegas? We would love to have you join
our monthly steamup group.
431-3568
Cheers
Clark
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To All
Sneak preview.
The photos from the German magazine "Gartenbahn" can be seen at the
following address. Sorry still in German text The English is still not
finished. www.gartenbahn.de/pdf/PMD_Beilg_SM05_V2.pdf This has been
OK ed by the publisher
Manfred R. Meliset
Bert
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Vance,
The Accucraft model will probably be to little hands on. There is
always something to do to Aster models that is if the wind doesn't blow
the fire out! The Accucraft K-27 is almost boring, fire her up and let
her run for the next 50 minutes. (almost like an electric model) The
boiler on a
Manfried Meliset, publisher of GartenBahn, sent a note with some photos
of new items from the International Toy Fair in Nürnberg, Germany.
He saw prototypes of Accucraft's live steam K-28 (I had heard this was
coming, but hadn't seen details) and Big Boy(!). Maybe I saw the Big Boy
before and imme
Bert warned:-
> These are my sentiments exactly. Turning copper is for the beginner
> inviting the "ploughed field" finish if it doesnt get torn out of the
> chuck to disappear with high speed past your left ear.
Just as long as it's not the right of the left ear
Mike (been there, done
At 11:30 PM 2/15/05 -0500, you wrote:
>my opinion on using copper as bushings is based on the following:
>#1 LBSC in his book about building TICH (page 156) recommends as bushing
material copper with "The next best thing is bronze".
Henner,
That was written ca. 1951 and things have changed
Auther
These are my sentiments exactly. Turning copper is for the beginner
inviting the "ploughed field" finish if it doesnt get torn out of the
chuck to disappear with high speed past your left ear. Just pulling
down a screw can be the last time. I'd go for the bronze.
Bert
Here goes my 2 cent's worth about copper treaded bushings. Better if you
use a no zinc bronze. Copper is too soft and its threads will tend to
distort and even pull out when a male thread is screwed in it. Like you
will always be able to tighten it more. Bronzes silver solders well.
Copper,
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