Hi Tom,
FYI- Your lastest message came through ok this time. Thanks. Do not
know what was changed, your end or mine. (I do know your previous message
was the only one received garbled for many weeks). All appears ok for now.
Working Lamps - A few weeks ago I received a sample of a fully self
contained working headlamp from Garden Rail Specialists in the UK, as a
consolation gift, after they corrected a messed up order I had made with
them. This lamp is all metal, painted white, and intended to fit on the
Roundhouse Elsa, Lady Ann size scale engines.
The lamp is approx 2x the size and style of the non working lamps
provided by Aster for their King George/A4 1/32 scale engines.
The basic body of the european style lamp is rectangular at .400" Long
x .400 High and .350" wide. It has a spherical glass lens .250" dia x 125"
height dome. Attachment bracket on the rear has a 125' wide slot x .062"
deep. Also has a hand carrying loop .400" high. On top of the lamp body
under the carrying loop is a .125" dia x .200" rotating on/off switch.
(Dummy oil filler).
I have not attempted to dismantle the body which appears to
be 2 "I_I" sections assembled to interlock at right angles. I "assume"
it has a lithium battery approx .180" dia. powering powering the yellow
diode light which is magnified through the lens.
I have not lit the lamp for extended periods, only for many show and
tell demo,s, so no idea of battery life. According to the instructions, a
replacement battery is available. Price of the total lamp is 15 pounds =
approx $22.50 Replacement Battery 2 pounds = $3. Plus postage.
Although not representative of the USA style large box headlamps for the
Accucraft C16 and Reno smokeboxs. It has many other multiple kit bash and
Roundhouse/ Ruby engines uses and does not need any routing of wires.
I have no problem having a few more shipped to me in US for
distibution, if anyone interested.
Tony D.
At 09:21 AM 8/26/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Sorry to those who got my first message scrambled. No idea why this
>happened as no attachments or pictures were included.
>
>Like Chad, I will try and record my whistle this week. I did get whistle
>#2 to sing this weekend but only on the 1st harmonic. I tried several of
>the various sizes internal tubes that are suppose to lower the tone but
>could not get a good whistle. I could just hear the tone it was suppose to
>be with just a little steam but with any more steam all I got was steam
>venting white noise. Both whistle #1 (in the trash) and whistle #2 are
>the smaller version made to Larry Bingham plans published in SitG Vol
>42. I'll continue to play with it.
>
>The requested details on the headlight are easy. Whenever I am in a Home
>Depot I always visit the flash lights and look for good minature
>lenses. Several months back I found a flashlight lense that was perfect
>diameter for the Accucraft old style headlight. I was stupid and only
>bought 2. Since then I have not seen this exact flashlight again. My
>first lense got too close to my micro torch flame and got all wrinkled up
>so I have only 1 left.
>
>Anyway, I used the lense and bulb from the flashlight and got a
>microswitch and 2 "N" sized batteries at Radio Shack. Everything was
>soldered together in series and there is just enough space in the
>headlight to squeeze to 2 batteries behind the lense. The switch is
>mounted on the bottom of the headlight. I made the top of the headlight
>removable and is held by 2 ea 2mm flush mounted screws in the back of the
>headlamp. By far the thing that took the most time was making a new
>slanted front face and number board out of brass as per RGS #17 prototype.
>
>All in, the headlight took a couple of weeks and I have played with the
>whistle for a couple of weeks. I scratched built a wide peaked roof cab
>that took about 5 weeks of time. I would highly recommend Vances new round
>roof kit as it is not an easy project to scratch. As the RGS did not have
>a C-16 with an original short unmodified tender combined with a round roof
>cab post 1903 with automatic couplers, I chose to scratch the peaked roof
>cab and build RGS 17 instead of attempting to modify the tender. RGS #17
>is one of the few engines post coupler that retained the original short
>tender dimensions. All the other tenders at that time were modified and
>were much taller. If I had to do over again, I would have started with an
>Accucraft D&RGW #278 as the tender would have been suitable for several
>C-16 RGS engines post 1903.
>
>Regards
>
>Tom Burns
>Sugar Land, Texas
