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Re: Brake Housings
Hello Pierre, Nelson,
The parts Nelson cites are separate wheel housing sets done by DA. The Equipco is a 3750 gear, the Miner is a D3290 gear and the Ureco is a fantasy gear. The Grandt Line ? DA set contains 4 gears, this set was done for a project that never fully materialized. Gene Green went over these some time back so I will copy his post: Gene Green
08/29/16 #144486
My information differs somewhat from that which was copied from their website.
Since all hand brake installations on new cars are grandfathered, any given hand brake can continue in use long after actual production has stopped.
Ajax 5 is actually model no. 14665 with short release lever introduced Nov 1953.
Ajax 5-1 is actually model no. 14665-1 with long release lever introduced abut 1970.
Ajax 5 is also model no. 14665-B with no release lever introduced Aug 1961.
Ajax 7 & 7-1, models 15018 & 15018-1 respectively, short & long release levers respectively were introduced in 1974. These are intermediate power hand brakes and, in their applied position would have a loop of chain dangling from left of center as well as the chain to the vertical hand brake rod.
Save for the presence & type or absence of release lever the 5 hand brakes above had very, very similar housings.
The Champion/Champion Orme/Champion Peacock 1148 was introduced in 1937 and production stopped in 1953.
I have no information indicating there was ever an Equipco hand brake model 2550.
Equipco 3750/3750-A/3750-B/3750-C/3750-D were introduced in Oct 50, Dec 50, Oct 51, Apr 54 and May 57, each predecessor being obsolete and no longer produced upon the introduction of its successor. This hand brake had no release lever and was in a malleable (cast) housing. There was a model 3750-E which may have existed on paper only. In 1974 Equipco 3750-F was introduced with a forged (stamped) housing virtually identical to the Equipco 4000. Equipco 3750-F lasted to 1999. Equipco 3750-FS was sold only to the N&W and L&N and, for our purposes, was identical to 3750-F and all 4000 models.
Ellcon-National model 1148-J was essentially the Champion mechanism in a forged E-N housing and did not resemble the Champion 1148 at all. It looked like the Peacock 1600, AAR 1966, body.
The Klasing 1150 was introduced in Aug 1961 and last sold in 1977, exactly the information on the website to which reference was made.
Klasing 1450, 1500, 1500-1, 1700 & 1700-1 was a family of hand brakes in similar housings. The 1450 was never sold but a model 1450 (A) was on the market from 1972 to 1993. It had no release lever. Models 1500 & 1500-1 were introduced in 1969 and went through a number of internal changes indicated only by suffix letters, something with which we need not be concerned. The "-1" indicates a long release lever. The others had a short release lever. The 1500 was still available in 1999, the 1500-1 to 1993. Models 1700 & 1700-1 were introduced in 1993 and lasted until Klasing was sold to New York Air Brake in this century.
The Miner D-3290, D-3290-X & D-3290-XL were introduced in 1937, May 43 & 1951. Miner model 18486-B1, which had essentially the same appearance as its predecessors, was introduced in 1970. Each model was obsolete when its successor was introduced and the 18486-B1 was obsolete in 1979.
Miner models 6600 & 6600-L were introduced in 1967 and obsolete in 1981. Guess which one had the long release lever. The other one had a short release lever.
Universal 2250 from 1957 to 1962.
Universal 7400 (short release lever) and 7400-3 (long) were introduced in 1963 & 1967 respectively. They apparently lasted in production into this century.
Gene Green
Hope this helps, Dan Smith
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Re: Brake Housings
Nelson Moyer
Did DA or GL offer the four housing sprue separately, are they still available, and what housings are on the sprue? I use mostly Kadee housings and wheels for the ones they make, but they don’t do URECO or Klasing, and I’m always looking for alternative sources. I bought the RCW Klasing set, but I haven’t found another source for URECO besides DA.
Nelson Moyer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io]
On Behalf Of Pierre Oliver
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2019 5:50 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Brake Housings
It's the same AB sprue that was in the GS gon kits Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 6/09/19 6:48 p.m., Nelson Moyer wrote:
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Re: Great Freight Car Combinations
Tom Madden
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 04:07 PM, Jack Mullen wrote:
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 08:00 PM, Schuyler Larrabee wrote:Attached is a photo showing two views of an undamaged sill step on D&RGW Pressed Steel boxcar 69332 showing the designed-in bend. It's the step on the right. Pierre offers this step, Yarmouth part #YMW-216. Tom Madden
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Re: Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
Chuck Cover
To the group, thanks for all the tips on how to cut the Plano metal roof walks.
Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM
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Re: Brake Housings
Bill Welch
The AB brake set Pierre refers to was tooled by Grandt Line and packaged by both GL and DA.
Bill Welch
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Re: Brake Housings
Pierre Oliver
It's the same AB sprue that was in the GS gon kits Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 6/09/19 6:48 p.m., Nelson Moyer
wrote:
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Brake Housings
Nelson Moyer
Pierre, I don’t think DA makes a sprue with four brake housings on a single sprue. Maybe the sprue you have is Moloco? I attached a picture of the Moloco brake housings.
Nelson Moyer
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Re: DA AB brake detail sprue
Nelson Moyer
I have DA 6403 URECO, DA 6402 Miner, and DA 6401 Equipco. You're probably looking at those in addition to Ajax.
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Pierre Oliver Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2019 5:06 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] DA AB brake detail sprue Hello all. I'm looking at a AB brake sprue from DA. On it are 4 handbrake housings on the sprue, The Ajax is obvious, but I'm having trouble identifying the 3. Help please -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com
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Re: Great Freight Car Combinations
Jack Mullen
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 08:00 PM, Schuyler Larrabee wrote:
Indeed, and if you look around in the photo Schuyler linked, you'll see steps on the Rio Grande and WLE boxcars are also bent inward. Must be operating on a club layout. ("Huh, THAT isn't very sturdy! I build MY cars to OPERATE.") Seriously, once to start looking, you'll see these a lot. The bend is by design, not damage (though that happens too). It's a consequence of the inward taper of the clearance envelope below the level of the side sill. When the inside width of house cars expanded to 9'2", width over the side sills became about 9'10". But the bottom of the step is at a height of 2' or a couple inches less ATR , where the max width has reduced to about 9'8". Jack Mullen
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DA AB brake detail sprue
Pierre Oliver
Hello all.
I'm looking at a AB brake sprue from DA. On it are 4 handbrake housings on the sprue, The Ajax is obvious, but I'm having trouble identifying the 3. Help please -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com
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Re: Pullman Library Freight Car Drawings
Bob Webber
David, the file names (the left column) is in 3 parts - the
"SS-" indicates Standard Steel. The 45602 indicates
the Standard Steel Drawing Number. The .tif is the file type we
scan & store the files as. Hence the SS-45602.tif is the full
file name for the scan of that drawing. Which is itself
"traced from C.C.C.R. Co. Print 2704-D" - it shows the
end of the specific type along with posts that support it behind and the
manner in which the end is fastened to the roof (or vice-versa). It
is a 35" x 19" original on linen.
Scanned this May - would likely would never be scanned (in an order-driven process). There are all sorts of interesting ends, roofs, trucks and such - and hundreds of small parts - that wouldn't normally have been scanned. The main reason I have been scanning these is precisely that they wouldn't normally be ordered - and I wanted to present a nice "cross section" of drawing types; as well as railroad orders. The plan is to obtain a collections management system, use the information we have been entering as a feed to it and present a searchable object on the web. Towards that end too, we've been creating a "database (sic)" of assets (manuals, photos, negatives, documents, film, indexes, etc.) for the same purpose. Who knows we have hundreds of Trailmobile negatives? Dating to *very* early in the company (1900s)? Or EMD marine and maritime (portable) prime mover manuals? Or WW I trench equipment drawings? Or Images of the test center in Hammond for freight equipment; loading of tanks & equipment built in the plants (as well as testing those vehicles); bombs & shells; ship drawings; Plant drawings and photos; freight car scheme proposals; Vendor drawings, etc. - along with the "normal" freight & passenger car equipment drawings. And...in terms of freight cars - 95% of drawings, Images & data *IS* Steam era. At 08:27 PM 6/8/2019, David via Groups.Io wrote: This one could be interesting: Bob Webber
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Carrying Automobiles In Boxcars
Many vintage (and more modern) photos from the Industrial History Blog: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/03/carrying-automobiles-in-boxcars.html Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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New Measuring Tool
Bill Welch
As I noted recently Ryan Mendell's "Machinist Hand Tools Clinic: Part One" can be expensive‚ LOL. Reminder he will be doing at Lisle/Chicagoland nest.
I decided to go with a Mitutoyo Digital caliper and purchased it from Amazon on Friday and it was here on Saturday. My decision was based mainly on the fact that I am collaborating on designing a new resin kit and on my last collaboration—the Yarmouth tank car—my confidence reading my dial caliper was so low I sent photos of what the dial said to my collaborator in Germany. This time my collaborator has the very same Mitutoyo Digital caliper and I can just read what the little screen says and send it to him. To me being confident of what I am doing is worth the price. Much discussion around the fact that the Mitutoyo calipers are counterfeited and can be found for $30 so I was careful in looking at the details and specs. Returns are easy with Amazon and I was confident I was getting the real thing. The photos show what the packaging looks like. The brown sheet of paper in the factory wrapping of the caliper is imbedded with a rust inhibiter and obviously the battery comes separate. The storage case is robust and it is easy to tell which side is up. Bill Welch
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Machinist Tools For Modeling-calipers
Andy Carlson
I purchased a digital caliper many years ago and whenever I see it, I am reminded that it has never been removed from its packaging. I have two stainless dial calipers, plus one plastic one kept near the computer for spur-of-the moment measurements. One of my dial calipers has had some fine filing done to sharpen one of the anvil's inside edge. This sharpened edge is used for scribing styrene sheets when I am cutting styrene parts. I quickly figured the correction adjustment when scribing which allows the cuts to be made at the correct point. It is a quickly learned adjustment. I suppose that the reason I have never opened the digital is that it is totally unnecessary, as the dial calipers are so easy to read (and accurate), and I don't seem to have any problems with misreading any of my measurements. As a famous metalurgyst (I spelled that wrong, didn't I?) once stated "YMMV". -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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Re: "Machinist Tools For Modeling, Part 1 - Hand Tools" Clinic ar rent NERPM
vapeurchapelon
Up to date I never understood the move to digital calipers for hobby purposes. Eyes getting worse with age is the first credible explanation for me. I just don't trust those digital things. I have had two failures with them, both showing real crap at the display after some time of usage. (Don't know the make anymore.) I realized this as the display value was WAAAYYYY off the real value - several mm! But what with errors in the decimal digits?
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I just don't trust them, and I have a very old-school analog caliper wich works forever and is precisely enough for my hobby efforts. Many greetings Johannes Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
Gesendet: Freitag, 07. Juni 2019 um 19:01 Uhr
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Re: Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
cut (nippers) while holding the edge where you are cutting with flat pliers or a strong clamp. then file
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the cut edge while still clamped or held with pliers. then there should be no deformation.
On 6/8/2019 8:09 PM, Chuck Cover wrote:
I am upgrading a few models by adding Plano metal roof walks and need to shorten a few of them to fit the cars. Has anyone had experience in cutting these metal roof walks? What is the best way, without damaging or bending the cut end? Thanks --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*
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Re: Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
Micro-Mark’s photo-etch scissors work well. For major cuts I also sometimes use a little 7” sheet-metal shear/brake. Any such tool needs to be kept sharp and tight to get a clean cut on such thin material. Even then a little clean-up with a fine stone or Sil-carbide sanding-paddle is often needed.
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Re: Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
Eric Hansmann
Chuck, I've been using cuticle scissors to cut etched parts off of the fret. I can't recall where I bought them but they look like these. You could try using a pair of these at the very end of the running board to see if they trim the parts to your liking. Eric Hansmann
On June 8, 2019 at 6:09 PM Chuck Cover <chuck.cover@...> wrote:
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Re: Great Freight Car Combinations
gary laakso
Schuyler, the device is an Elesco coil type feedwater heater, a favorite of the Central of Georgia.
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Schuyler Larrabee via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2019 8:00 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Great Freight Car Combinations
Gary, here’s another look at the ERIE car, and in this view you can see both ends of the car, plus the other side of the near end. It’s pretty clear that the steps ARE bent inwards from the usual plane of the car side.
https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1944-Columbus-Georgia/i-xxqfnfK/A
Schuyler
Interesting collection of photos to wander through. I have another question: several of the locomotives have an oval-in-plan device at the top of the smokebox in front of the stack. What’s that? Some less common form of a feedwater heater?
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of gary laakso
The nearest track features a PRR X31 boxcar and two types of flat cars and the adjoining track has what appears to be a pulp wood car, CB&Q double sheathed boxcar, a pickle car, and a 1937 GN boxcar. Is the stirrup on the Erie boxcar bent towards the truck or is it the camera playing tricks? https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1944-Columbus-Georgia/i-FX2N8GC/A
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
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Re: Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
I'm out of town presently but check with Plano direct. I was in the same quandary and he recommended a set of cutters that Amazon sells, that do an excellent job cutting the metal parts.
Dave Strahlendorf Erlanger, Ky.
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