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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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Dan Mitchell ==========
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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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Re: Steel casting colors
Tony Thompson
Richard Townsend wrote:
Richard probably refers to a post last March, about structural steel, a material which is mostly hot rolled and maybe cold straightened. That post is here: but a more general commentary on rust colors, and what they may or may not represent, might be this post, if you're interested: Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: Steel casting colors
Tony Thompson
Ron Merrick wrote: For castings (or forgings) that have been outside for a few months, the color ends up being about the same for ductile iron and for carbon steel (or many of the steel alloys). But castings that have been freshly grit blasted, then set outside, there is a pretty good variation from yellow to orange to dark rusty color. Those are certainly realistic rust colors, as I've described in my blog and in weathering clinics. However, not every casting or forging is left out in the weather. I have photos of some VERY large forgings on flat cars, and they are the typical bluish-gray of mill scale. Over time, they might well show rust, but not every such piece will show rust. Even freshly cast steel or cast iron does not rust right away. So I would say that modeling materials of that kind is going to depend on the vendor and the purchaser, whether the part is promptly shipped or sits around in the yard. In many cases, a grayish color would be best. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: Great Freight Car Combinations
Schuyler Larrabee
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
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 10:43 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Great Freight Car Combinations
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: Great Freight Car Combinations
Schuyler Larrabee
Gary. I think that sill step on the ERIE car IS bent inwards . . . look at the step on the other side . . . but I also think that it’s been bent lengthwise, too, so you’re getting a sort of double whammy of bending
Clearly, you observed that rather fuzzy photo closely!
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of gary laakso
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 10:43 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Great Freight Car Combinations
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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Great Freight Car Combinations
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: Steel casting colors
Richard Townsend
Tony Thompson address’s this recently in his blog.
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On Jun 8, 2019, at 6:25 PM, mopacfirst <ron.merrick@...> wrote:
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Re: Photo: Unloading DeSotos
rwitt_2000
The railroad would have been the IC; its Freeport IL to Madison WI line.
According to Google maps the car dealership building still stands. Bob Witt
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Pullman Library Freight Car Drawings
David
This one could be interesting:
SS-45602.tif?? Vulcan Corrugated Steel End - 1921 - 200 BAR Box Cars David Thompson
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Re: Steel casting colors
mopacfirst
For castings (or forgings) that have been outside for a few months, the color ends up being about the same for ductile iron and for carbon steel (or many of the steel alloys). But castings that have been freshly grit blasted, then set outside, there is a pretty good variation from yellow to orange to dark rusty color.
Ron Merrick
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Best way to cut Plano metal roof walks
Chuck Cover
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
Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM
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Steel casting colors
Have a few loads to paint. Need an idea for color for a steel casting load. Dark rusty red color, dark brown-black i see in ductile iron water main fittings at work, other? I realize what is seen today may not be what was circa 1957.
Brian J. Carlson
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Re: Pullman Library Freight Car Drawings
Bob Webber
I have added the Haskell & Barker & the
Pullman/Pullman Standard drawings. Note that there are missing
captions in the HB list - that has to be looked into - rather than delete
them, I kept them because, well, I'm busy doing other things - you can
always filter or sort.
A couple of points: I did not pre-spell check this version - it's rawer than the last. It is not sorted - I figured than anyone using it will sort or filter as they wish. It is saved as an XLS file type Note - the file name has changed - as did the description. If you still see Standard Steel - you have an old cached version, and you'll need to reload. If you used Jeff's method, the file will no longer be there. This process (and the response) has been a bit eye-opening as I had though this part of the process had gone firly well - in that I thought we had captions for every thing. We do not (or it didn't resolve correctly - TBD). Again, these are only the drawings scanned - mostly as a result of orders, though I have started scanning entire folders. . These 3 list segments are a tiny proportion of the available drawings, and we are trying to process more, as time allows. I thought that even in the raw form, it might hep people see what might be available for projects down the road. Thanks for the comments! http://www.pullmanlibrary.org/ (And yes, fonts & such need cleaning up on the page) Bob Webber
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