British 0-4-0 Toy Locomotive: he said

[Artie]

Poor Carl.... classic denial.... *bang* with support from us all he just MAY pull through.... will take some effort from the collective though.... Rof}

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Sorry; not much useful info here... I think I may have had one too many *beer*

Just posting is a help. Thanks. Read on...

with support from us all he just MAY pull through...

the wringer? :big:

Tried option 3 tonight (try to fix it). Tried 3 times. My lucky charm has gone bad. Thought I had it the first round...but no. The hole seems to be getting bigger.

So...options 1 (do it again) and 2 (do something else) still open. I'll continue on option 4 (think about it).

Option 1 is drawing me...

In the meantime I'll join Arnold from afar. I'll stick with the vodka martini though.

Here's some alcoholic blasphemy though...I drink my martinis from a jelly jar. ;D

 

[SAM in LA]

Sorry about all of the opportunity's that keep popping up with your hard soldering. I have decided that term "Hard soldering" does not just mean it has an elevated silver content, it also means it is "Hard" to do. I have now made 4 cylinder assemblies for the piston valve on my wood beam engine. :wall:

Here's some alcoholic blasphemy though...I drink my martinis from a jelly jar. ;D

Jelly Jar? *beer*

It sounds to me that perhaps your martini is moonshine with an olive. Rof}

Sorry, couldn't resist.

SAM

 

[Deanofid]

Here's some alcoholic blasphemy though...I drink my martinis from a jelly jar. ;D

It sounds to me that 'T' doesn't trust you with the stemware...

Very un-007-ish, old boy.
Oh well. It still gives you a license to chill.

Dean

 

[bearcar1]

It sounds to me that 'T' doesn't trust you with the stemware...

Very un-007-ish, old boy.
Oh well. It still gives you a license to chill.

Dean

Dean, she probably got tired of picking up all of the sippy cups he was leaving all over the place Rof} Rof}


and "a license to chill"..... *groan* ....


BC1
Jim

 

[Deanofid]

Well, we do what we can, Jim.
Sorry for the groaner. Pretty lame, I know. Been using my hacksaw all day and was
too tired to think up a good one.

Dean

 

[ksouers]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyhtLmQTPpA[/ame]

 

[bearcar1]

Well, we do what we can, Jim.
Sorry for the groaner. Pretty lame, I know. Been using my hacksaw all day and was
too tired to think up a good one.

Dean

;D

BC1
Jim

 

[zeeprogrammer]

It sounds to me that 'T' doesn't trust you with the stemware...

she probably got tired of picking up all of the sippy cups he was leaving all over the place

And here I thought you all were getting to know me and my conniving ways...

A glass of what appears to be ice water raises fewer eyebrows from those who don't know me.
And a 'small' glass (jar) raises fewer questions from those who do know me. ;D

'license to chill'...sheesh.
'sippy cups'...that day will come.

 

[bearcar1]

'sippy cups'...that day will come.

:big: :big: That is good to know Z', I'm getting to the point where elbow straws aren't doing much for me anymore......... but a Mason Jar?
(somehow flashes of a young Burt Reynolds and banjos comes to mind)
That stuff will make you go blind you know...... Honey, is that you?.......


whew! I'm OK now

BC1
Jim

 

[Maryak]

All very interesting but....................................are they shaken or stirred ??? : ??? : (the martinis that is)

Best Regards
Bob

 

[zeeprogrammer]

All very interesting but....................................are they shaken or stirred ??? : ??? : (the martinis that is)

Poured.

Anything else is a waste of time. :big:

 

[bearcar1]

Rof}

BC1
Jim

 

[Maryak]

"TOUCHE" :bow:

Now......... about that boiler................................................... ???

Best Regards
Bob

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Kevin, somehow I'd missed the 'License to Chill' video. Nice.
...................

Time to end Option 4. That leaves:
Option 1 (do it again)
Option 2 (do something else)

No doubt you all knew where I'd end up.

Option 1.

 

[tmuir]

No doubt you all knew where I'd end up.

Option 1.

Maybe just use some copper or brass pipe without the plating, that way you can just W&D it once finished to clean it all up and give it a polish.

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Thanks tmuir. I'll leave that decision off for a while.

Marv is probably sitting there snickering to himself..."sure, sure he will...zeep will diverge from his path...sure he will"



I made the two bushings today.

That's four bushings so far. If I keep this up I'll get good enough to go into business. So long as it's .34 x .34 and 1/4-28.

Or thereabouts.

 

[mklotz]

Titter. Snicker.

Yeah, but will he depart from the construction notes? Will he design it the way it should have been designed in the first place?

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Titter. Snicker.

Aren't those different genders? :big:

Woke up several times last night thinking about one thing. (Okay...two things but we won't talk about that.)

The stud (aw gee...this is bad timing)...

You'll remember that it fell out when the solder softened from a later operation.
In, what I like to call wisdom (but you might call inevitability), I had bought extra material should a desire to duplicate a part (hee hee) overcome me.

So I have a hunk of 1 3/8" round by 1.2" brass that I bought to 'duplicate' the end sheets. If I were to 'follow the construction notes' I would cut this in half and be back at the same starting point as when I received the kit.

When I do that, I'll have two (less than) 0.6 pieces of brass that will get trimmed to 0.16. So what I'm thinking is...

Make the stud an integral part of the end sheet. That is...when I go to turn (face) the part down to .16...turn it down to the 'stud' and then thread it. No soldering necessary.

What do you think? It's waste brass anyway. The alternative is to use 45 silver solder for the stud and hope that I don't melt it when I solder the end sheet on with 56.

Another question...as I said, it's only 1.2" long (the stock material). That will make it an interesting exercise to bandsaw cut. Do you think I can hacksaw this? (You know me...and I won't take offense.) Or what about parting it? Too much? (If I did I'd part close to center and then break it off.)

Oh...and something else...tmuir (as well as others) have suggested using copper or brass tubing instead of the drain pipe. I'm not ready to give up on that. I'll probably take the (yes...I did get a spare) drain pipe and see if I can work it better than the last one. If I can...I'll go for it...if not...I'll..I'll...cry first and then think about it.

 

[fcheslop]

Hi Zee,instead of turning all that brass to dust why not make the flange plates by forming sheet material ? much cheaper and far quicker.All the best