Recent content by olympic

Thanks for telling me how long it takes to do something. If someone as skilled as you spends that much time on a thing like your gas tank, I don't feel too bad about how long it takes me, a self-taught, unskilled worker, to accomplish something. I often feel frustrated because I think something...

A few years ago I took my newly-completed O-gauge Dickins (a James Senft design) to a local multi-gauge track, where a disagreement developed between my loco and another locomotive. As far as I am concerned, Dickins won.

Don't think this will help much, but I did mine with my Burke #4 horizontal mill.

"Eddie, kiss me goodnight."

"The boiler will be coal-fired if I can find some." Perhaps you could contact the Toronto Society of Model Engineers or the Richmond Hill Live Steamers. They should have coal to burn, as it were. If that fails, you can PM me. I have a fair amount of Welsh steam coal in the size you'll need...

Couldn't agree more. And not just parts. I once lost a 000-120 tap ( don't even think of asking what I was up to); it broke (again, don't even think of asking how). Though I found the shank, the threaded part, which I had hoped to perhaps salvage in some undefined way, had vanished into an...

Beautiful model! I'm jealous, because it's far better than mine.

Looks like you found the same pictures of a Case pressure gauge as I did, except that I chose one that showed about 75lb pressure. Otherwise, I proceeded much as you did. I'm glad I was able to contribute to your superlative build.

I like that ratchet throttle. Maybe this winter I can modify my tractor to accommodate this. As for the fake pressure gauge, if you look at my posted pictures you'll see one on top of my dome. All I did was make something that looked like the appropriate housing, then stuck a suitably shrunk...

Haven't heard back from them. Don't expect to. I see this as a site to avoid.

Good point, Bentwings. I am forgetting about them, though I did manage to get in touch in a roundabout way and ask them to delete any information about me that they might have.

I'm not too sure about the malware thing. I've tried 4 different computers on this. In addition, this is the only site that has ever given me trouble. I also scan my computer regularly to detect problems. None ever.

Here's an interesting one. I recently tried to register myself on a site called canadianhobbymetalworkers.com which is a forum for Canadian model engineers of pretty well any persuasion--or at least what that's what the site says. I went through the registration process, and my email address...

Much better to do what you did. Just as accurate in the long run.