Thanks Tony: I bought some items from JWD after one of your articles and had forgotten about them. just placed another order. You should get a finder's fee. Bill Pardie [Non-text portions of this

This is a reminder of the upcoming NW Milwaukee Road Modelers Meet August 27th - 29th at the Cedar River Education Facility - North Bend, WA. We will be providing another van tour of the Milw ROW

I wrote: Sorry, used the old Duha web address. It should be http://duha.du.sweb.cz/index.htm Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

You guys must not have seen the Duha cable reels that JWD Premium sells (www.jwdpremiumproducts.com), which are very well done. It's part #11290. If you're interested, Duha also have a web site,

I said: Ed replied: Indeed, that is an issue. OTOH, if you buy one set, you can then use them as patterns to build more ;^) To me, the challenge in that approach is to make the round ends. I

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: But I have about 6-7 pin vises always > set up with sizes I use frequently. I have 2 pin vises set up with drill/tap I have more

Ed, Maybe you could purchase some and then make cast resin duplicates for yourself. Randy Williamson www.prrfreight.com Quoting ed_mines : Thanks for the lead Bruce. A gon full of any of

Thanks for the lead Bruce. A gon full of any of these is a bit pricy and laser lines don't look very convincing to me. Chooch also makes them but they have the same aforementioned problems.

Man, Look at photo, then write. Repeat. Repeat. Elden

<I have a half dozen pin vices, but only one closes down to zero to hold <really small drills. <Jared Harper <Athens, GA I too have several different pin vises, each one set with a different

Jared, Buy some of Otto Frei pin vises. Denny put me on to them a couple of years ago, and they are one of the best tools on my work bench. They are reasonably inexpensive, so I keep six of them with

Hard to beat their service for sure. Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 12:11:22 PM Subject: [STMFC] Drills   I ordered #80 drills

I have a half dozen pin vices, but only one closes down to zero to hold really small drills. Jared Harper Athens, GA

I ordered #80 drills for $1.95 each from Mc Master-Carr. Ordered them on the internet on June 26. They were on my front porch the next day. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Since I started this I realized that a better word would have been collar Yes the drill has a thicker shank but it is also fitted with a small plastic "wheel" on the shank. The this shank makes it

Elden, Look again, the car is a class G30 composite gondola, and the reels in the car are indeed several different sizes, and for all these years I thought that was a shipment of college dorm

Nimke, "Connecticut River Railroads", vol 4, pp 64-67, has an account of Kearsarge Reel Corp, Bradford, N.H. (on the B&M Claremont Branch). This plant was built in '52; they were originally a

These (with a standard shank, usually 1/8") are normally used in the PC board business. They are (used to be) available all over the place. Less common now with surface mount components. At one

somewhere, maybe at a train show, i found a set of tiny reamers and some of them are MUCH smaller than #80 drill. they're very strong too although i did break one accidentally (not while using

"With COLLET"? A collet is the part of the pin vise of tool spindle that closes on the tool. Are we talking about drills with oversize shanks, often called pivot