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TOPIC: A better Trainmaster pilot
A better Trainmaster pilot 8 years 5 months ago #4902
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This is 1 before (Photos 5146 & 5149) and mostly after on my Trainmaster draft gear project. It is a means to an end on just trying to get couplers on this loco, but fixing a major improvement in the looks as well.
It is all reasonably accurate from the measurements I took at the modelers meeting It was not my intention to install the parts now. I was going to do it after I stripped the paint. I had to mill off the original coupler pad to get the drive out. But since I did the frame milling first thing this morning I could not mount any coupler, and run it with a train. This is a major departure in my previous draft gear designs. While my printer is good, it is not going to easily made a .010 thick wall tube as the coupler pivot. The 2-56 screw that holds the lid on becomes the coupler pivot. Also, *** I put the centering spring in LAST***. Put the coupler on the lid, slide it in the draft gear, put the screw in, then pop the centering spring in place. That was a 11:00 last night discovery that I could not access to put the spring in. I revised the lid to make a spring access hole. But that is OK because there is not much movement anyway. I could have easily gone without the centering spring. I don’t do delay uncoupling. I can mostly plan and design but sometimes something pops up I did not consider. I need to see what I have done in place to see what needs to be done. It took most of the weekend, about 4 rounds of printing, revising and tweaking until I was happy with it all. The files I have saved now are revised and different than what I used. I have already pulled a train with the new draft gear. Because it is a plug installed from the back it is not going anywhere. Short of a head on collision I have no doubts this will be durable. This modification is probably the biggest change I am making. I am probably going to fill in the second headlight on the short hood before painting for Reading. Bill        |
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A better Trainmaster pilot 8 years 5 months ago #4933
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A better Trainmaster pilot 8 years 5 months ago #4940
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Butch Curll
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A better Trainmaster pilot 8 years 5 months ago #4941
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