My father was a carpenter, I grew up in his workshop and still use some of his tools today. I like the smell of freshly cut wood, cedar or pitchpine eg. Later in the salt mine, the smell was bad, musty and stale, plus the nitrous gases after blasting. That's why I use smoke oil with wood smell. So I'm not quite off topic now, just a little...
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I read a little in old forums, there is that the machine has a sound module, but the live steamers prefer to drive straight without electronics, why is that?
Hello Nick, the sound is completely different with steam, you can feel life in the machine. Thank you for the detailed explanation. We hope for good weather for the test drive.
High Chuck, that's right, to prevent that I would drill the hole for the axle at the end, in the chuck of the lathe. That would be one possibility. I think you can do it.
If you still have wheels made of stainless steel, maybe turn out the cone and retract plastic bushings, my idea.
These are wheels for most of MTH's diesels from the generation before 2011. I reduced the diameter by 1 mm. Since I always drive around to the right in a circle, I need new wheels from time to time.
Yes I remember, the engines had built-in ventilation, I think they had a heat problem. My machine never ran, I built it and put it away when I started MTH.
Mth Wheels 1. Silver, 2. Generation freight cars black
Hello Chuck, thank you, everything is fine with us, the heating oil tank is well filled, only the money has become less.....who wants to sit in the cold.
I read the first version. At that time, almost all axles had to be reworked inside to the 40 mm of the NEM. Otherwise it didn't go through my switches....
Hi Chuck, as always clean work. For 1/29 there is a lot of 3d printing, maybe there is something for you? In the picture with the bottom, the wheels don't look like Aristo, but I can be mistaken. The Gp 40 looks interesting on the roof, I don't know what it is yet.
Regards
Jan
Edit, I remember, why did you install a DCC decoder this time, are there no more parts or does MTH not have the sound of the Sd 45 ?
Thank you, I only installed the clutch on this Engine , which was completely new territory for me at the time. Even then, the Zimo decoder was able to control servos. Today there is already everything from Kadee in the Couplerbox, but I find it quite expensive.
On January 28, 1988, 2964 was working in Southern California when it was destroyed in a fire collision in Pico Rivera, California. Santa Fe's only GP40 had worked for the railroad for only four years. Bachmann builds the same locomotive number, my Aristo is from 2009. This is a nice machine, not too big with good running characteristics, I think. At that time I retrofitted everything that the 2964 had on the roof and for the rear a Kadee with servo drive, now it has been on the shelf for 10 years, as it happens....
Great info Nick, there is actually only electrical stuff in the box, I was wrong. I'm just a layman when it comes to steam. But I also found a page with a nice picture on the subject.
„The box on the pilot beam of 5399 is the valve gear drive mechanism, not train control. This is a common feature of all locomotives equipped with the oscillating cam form of poppet valve gear. The later rotary cam poppet valve gear had a different configuration.
Also, DBHP on PRR usually means DBHP at the rear of the locomotive on the Altoona test plant, not at the rear of the tender.“
My humor is strange, but I think that a box was somehow fixed, it came later and it was probably not welded, so either screws or tensioned with chains or ropes. I'm looking for a picture....
All good Nick, the one with the grounding cable should actually be a joke....it was a self-runner. But I can think of something else... The box should actually be lashed with small chains....:), otherwise it falls down
Pre-ordering is not uncommon, there are no storage costs. For me it would be interesting if a base is created here or dealer who places my orders. Ordering directly is too expensive and time-consuming. I am thinking of spare parts. I would also rather order a locomotive here, because of the warranty etc. As it seems, we don't get together like this anymore
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My father was a carpenter, I grew up in his workshop and still use some of his tools today. I like the smell of freshly cut wood, cedar or pitchpine eg. Later in the salt mine, the smell was bad, musty and stale, plus the nitrous gases after blasting. That's why I use smoke oil with wood smell. So I'm not quite off topic now, just a little...
Was just at the dentist, again one less, bad day…