Geared Steam wrote: so what!!Uhh, its called rules.Children visit this forum, it has nothing to do with "sensitive".
so what!!
Uhh, its called rules.
Children visit this forum, it has nothing to do with "sensitive".
It doesn't matter, I've heard worse at the pumps
jecorbett wrote: shayfan84325 wrote: I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks. The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit. Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center. Worked out great. I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels. BTW, it's HO:Nice job. I recently purchased a TT bridge kit and will also need to build a pit. The instructions suggested a method but I am curious about your method. Also, you mentioned centering it. Were you refering to locating the pivot point and what method did you use. Also, could you describe how you built and centered the pit rail.
shayfan84325 wrote: I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks. The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit. Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center. Worked out great. I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels. BTW, it's HO:
I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks. The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit. Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center. Worked out great. I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels. BTW, it's HO:
Nice job. I recently purchased a TT bridge kit and will also need to build a pit. The instructions suggested a method but I am curious about your method. Also, you mentioned centering it. Were you refering to locating the pivot point and what method did you use. Also, could you describe how you built and centered the pit rail.
Thanks for the complement. I made the pit out of a couple of layers of MDF (medium density fiberboard). I cut them to about 12" square (same size/shape). I cut a hole about 8 1/2 inches in diameter in one and glued it on center onto the other. I drilled the center hole in the other (this MUST be perpendicular, so a drill press is required). I made a circle cutting jig for a laminate trimmer (small router) and used it with a straight cutting bit to cut the 9" final diameter in the top layer. I set the bit just deep enough to cut about 1/32 into the bottom, that gave me a ridge to set the ring rail ties against.
To do the ring rail I made a jig to space and position the ties so they are really radial and glued them in place. I also made a drilling jig to drill spike holes on a perfect circle (you have to pre-drill the spike holes because they won't drive into MDF). I drilled the holes and curled the rail so it would fit into the pit (don't kink it). Then I spiked it down and soldered the ends to each other. It was actually easier than I expected. I used code 55 rail with code 70 spikes.
Other notes:
All of the jigs pivot from the center hole. I lined it with a brass tube to keep it from wearing and getting out of round. Becaise everything is based off of the hole it all ended up on center.
Getting the pivot dead center in the bridge was another challenge. I measured VERY carefully. I used my dial caliper a lot in this project.
In terms of the structure, the center pivot keeps the bridge on center, but all of the weight resides on the carrier wheels (on the ends). The 5mm unit bearings I used for carrier wheels work like a charm. Let me know if you want the source for these tiny little bearings.
My kit included fishing line for the guy wires, I used upholstery thread instead (looks and acts more like cable). You can buy upholstery thread at a fabric store (I love the looks I get when I go into a fabric store).
Good luck! Feel free to PM or post more questions.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
I hope my feelings about your images will lend you some impetus. Keep looking!!!
-Crandell
cwclark wrote: Lead SD70MAC leaving Flatoniachuck
Lead SD70MAC leaving Flatonia
chuck
Chuck has my vote for the best photo of the Easter Weekend!
--Zak Gardner
My Layout Blog: http://mrl369dude.blogspot.com
http://zgardner18.rrpicturearchives.net
VIEW SLIDE SHOW: CLICK ON PHOTO BELOW
Thank you. One of the things I'm going to try to do is create a slide show showing a series of images from a similar angle that present the progress from start to finish. Right now I'm wading through about a thousand photos!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Lee, I enjoyed your slide show. I really like your layout, and I also particularly like your brick structures. One image made the large red one look enormous. I enjoyed, also, when you got around to adding ground foam and provided a higher overview...it looked very nice, indeed, very natural and believable.
shayfan84325 wrote:Thanks. I have a 100/1 worm/worm-gear gearbox that I'll connect to a hand crank. Indexing will be by eyeball. I know, it seems low-tech, but I like to have a lot of hands on involvement with my layout (and I don't know enough about electronics to make it index accurately every time).All three of those brass locos run even better than they look, I've installed coreless motors with planetary inline gearboxes. The mogul has a top speed of about 18 smph, and that little shay tops out at 12. The Forney is a little faster, but all three will creep along at less than 1 smph (like watching the minute hand on a clock). Makes for very realistic operation. I have no end of good things to say about coreless motors. BTW, I run DC with a solid state throttle.
Thanks. I have a 100/1 worm/worm-gear gearbox that I'll connect to a hand crank. Indexing will be by eyeball. I know, it seems low-tech, but I like to have a lot of hands on involvement with my layout (and I don't know enough about electronics to make it index accurately every time).
All three of those brass locos run even better than they look, I've installed coreless motors with planetary inline gearboxes. The mogul has a top speed of about 18 smph, and that little shay tops out at 12. The Forney is a little faster, but all three will creep along at less than 1 smph (like watching the minute hand on a clock). Makes for very realistic operation. I have no end of good things to say about coreless motors. BTW, I run DC with a solid state throttle.
Good old-fashioned elbow grease is definitely appropriate to the era you're modelling.
Clockwork speed reduction is a beautiful thing.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Brian M wrote: Here's a meet of 5 Southern Pacific SD7's, just snapped on my layout about 30 minutes ago.*Image removed for Dialup users*Brian
Here's a meet of 5 Southern Pacific SD7's, just snapped on my layout about 30 minutes ago.
*Image removed for Dialup users*
Brian
Man, those are some purdy geeps!
Early Construction Slide Show
More to follow!Lee
SteamFreak wrote: Nice turntable, Shayfan! How do you plan to motorize and index it?Love the brass.
Nice turntable, Shayfan! How do you plan to motorize and index it?
Love the brass.
Well its been quite awhile since I got a chance to do any real work on my layout. I finially got all of the track down and the switched stands put in..... gonna start working on finishing up the wiring getting the panel finished and get started on some scenery.
This is what I've been doing this weekend.
Brad
TrainManTy wrote:No model photos this week yet, but I did make another video, this time scraped together from clips I took when visiting relatives in New Jersey. Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BlnvsCRp4
No model photos this week yet, but I did make another video, this time scraped together from clips I took when visiting relatives in New Jersey. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BlnvsCRp4
So where were the bunny ears on that M&E Alco?
If Lamoille Valley is New Haven's Alter Ego, at least they're BOTH talking some sense.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Guilford Guy wrote: Lamoille Valley wrote: New Haven I-5 wrote: Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP. Everyone! New Haven has a point. There has been some odd talking one the forums. Come'on! Lets enjoy Model Trains! Isn't that why we go on here? Right!?Pathetic, you have to reply to yourself!
Lamoille Valley wrote: New Haven I-5 wrote: Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP. Everyone! New Haven has a point. There has been some odd talking one the forums. Come'on! Lets enjoy Model Trains! Isn't that why we go on here? Right!?
New Haven I-5 wrote: Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP.
Pathetic, you have to reply to yourself!
Gee, I don't know what you're talking about. New Haven I-5 and Lamoille Valley are so right.
AHHHH! The voices in my head
Alex
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
modelmaker51 wrote:Been workin' on a D&H RS-3m for the last couple of months and it's finally ready for paint: Nose, #board/headlight housing, DB box are my own resin castings.
That engine is looking pretty nice. Glad to see someone else doing these. Here are some pics from one I did a while ago and one I am working on.
Keep up the great work and be sure to post some shots of the finished paint job.
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
To think I wanted to post PIC of what I got done in the last week here?
I started a new posting and hope that is OK.
JK, stop and think before you post. I respect most of your comments but you are rather rash with the keyboard. In the Mopar I am a expert! Yet, I have never left comments that made a new person or the board mad like you seem to do. I will add I have over 10,000 posting on Mopar sites.
If I want hear a fight (so to speak) I tell my wife how much the PCM Biy Boy and Y6-b cost!
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
cwclark wrote:
Great composition, Chuck.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Let that be your characterization of the way we do things in that one thread, Jerry. I call it fun posting.
Heck, we did all this...so I'm done.
What changed last night? Jeff publicly solicited a question in an open, public thread. The same rule should also apply to soliciting comments. If he didn't want to open it to the entire forum or readers of the thread, then Jeff should have been the one to take it private. He should have sent a PM to Bootlegger and asked him privately "What would you do?" The response would have been sent privately also. In steada, Jeff responded to Bootlegger's post by saying "What would you do?" Does you mean bootlegger, or did you mean you (all)? As the french have it Tu or Vous (if I can remember HS french all those years ago.
So the other point that becomes obvious is that the WPF is not meant to be a place to offer helpful hints or advice, even when asked to, but is truly just meant to be a communal love session and hug fest
The "what would you do" was directed to Coleman or Bootlegger, who happens to have been a troll. However, you answered. Yes others answered, but you, particularly, have a history that is fractious here, and it turns out your own comments came on the heels of those from a troll. Had you merely offered them privately, as we had suggested in our last lengthy comments about a month or so ago, you wouldn't have been seen to have associated your help with the troll. The troll posted all sorts of comments last night, all deleted, and he is active right now as The Real Al Mayo. As Coleman, he called one person's request about joining a club as "a stupid question" (sorry, I got that part wrong earlier, since corrected privately to Jeff).
That is why I am suggesting, as nicely and forcefully as I can, that you should not be jumping in so darned quickly to help, as a single target, Jeffrey.....yet again...always Jeffrey. That is why we felt you had gathered your fellows who enjoy comments about technique in the thread where they would be welcome. It was such a nice arrangement until you tripped over Al last night, if unwittingly, and targetted Jeff. It would have been better to have offered to help privately and see if Jeff were receptive.
It's not the help, Jerry...you know what you are doing. It's that it is in the wrong place and at the wrong time. I like your delivery in the sense that it was genuinely helpful, but we had decided, I thought, that it wasn't to be in WPF unless solicited privately and then welcomed by the intended receiver.
So,....what changed last night?
I love jktrains modeling and If I post a picture, I would gladly accept his advice.
jktrains wrote: Come on Tomkat-13, didn't you read Jeff's earlier post edit. He doesn't want ANYONE to offer help during the WPF thread. Your post is offering help and that shouldn't be allowed in WPF. WPF is only for people to post pics and receive pats on the back telling them how great it looks regardless of the actual results. So save all those helpful tips and hints for yourself and don't share them here because they're not wanted and, apparently, against the philisophy and spirit of WPF.
Come on Tomkat-13, didn't you read Jeff's earlier post edit. He doesn't want ANYONE to offer help during the WPF thread. Your post is offering help and that shouldn't be allowed in WPF. WPF is only for people to post pics and receive pats on the back telling them how great it looks regardless of the actual results. So save all those helpful tips and hints for yourself and don't share them here because they're not wanted and, apparently, against the philisophy and spirit of WPF.
Oh!.........but this is Spring Break Photo Fun!.....&/ or..... this is a leap year.....ect ect....I some time have this weakness for not always following the RULES!......If I crossed some sort of line drawn in the sand ...I did not mean any harm.
So sweepers man your brooms......make a clean sweep fore & aft!