Tools, tips and tricks
Cracked Gears on Lionel HO UP Turbine?
I have an HO Lionel Veranda Turbine that has at most 30 minutes of run time on it. I bought it new, shortly after they came out and after a bit of running on my old layout, I moved and it has been stored in a closet inside the house ever since.
I recently took it out to run and it had the dreaded click and bump from each wheel rotation that I have found so often in P2K GP 7/9's. However, with the Turbine it only happens when running FWD. I have been told that NWSL make a replacement gear #2462-6 12T but I can't get the axles out!
Jointing sand for ballast [updated]
Earlier I had posed the question wether or not Stone dust or Jointing sand would be usable for ballast, and after some great responses I decided to get some and try it. I ended up getting a 20kg bag of jointing sand (the stone dust appears to coarse for HO). So I get home, grab a bucket, open the bag and...
It's all CLUMPED!!! I will have to dry it out before i can use it, Any recommendations for drying?
cleaning brass models
What is the best way to clean a brass caboose model. Was there a forum on this before?
Thanks
Bill Wehmeier
Cutting zamac or other die-cast stuff
What's the right tool for cutting zamac or other die-cast materials? I just rather laboriously used a razor saw to cut pieces off of an Athearn blue box frame. Not only was it a pretty fair amount of work but it seems to have pretty much used up the blade in the process. Yet it was only about 3/16" square, several times.
I guess I could have used a cutoff disk in a Dremel, although I'm not keen on that as I don't like the consequences of breaking one of the disks.
Animation Possibilities
OK, say it... I live under a rock. I know robots are popular DIY projects nowadays but other than seeing them on television I never gave them much thought. Today I stumbled across a web page that captured my attention for a long time. Not so much for robots but thinking about animation on a model railroad. Holy smokes, they have everything you would ever need regardless of what animation application you dream up.
Check it out: http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php
Workbench Tool Caddies
Just wanted to pass on a couple different tool caddies that I made.
The second one is the one I stuck with and use daily, the first design was a stepping stone to get to the second.
I did like that the first one had a place for glue, that idea didn't work so well with the second. First one had it's problems too.
Organizing tiny drill bits
In the process of doing a lot of locomotive and rolling stock detailing, I'm accumulating quite a few of the small #61-#80 drill bits. Other than the ubiquitous circular plastic stand that holds one of each size, how do others organize the plethora of little bits? I find the circular stand problematic because it's easy to either stab one's self, or alternatively, to bend one of the nearby bits. So far I haven't actually broken any, and I suppose I can survive this, but if others have better techniques, I'd love to hear about it.
>> Posts index
Navigation
Journals/Blogs
Recent Blog posts: