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...by Bill Oberpriller. Bill offered the locomotive in kit form between 1998 and 2004. He no longer produces the kit. These pages have been "rescued" from [[File:BillOberpriller and MinnieII.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Bill Oberpriller and his Minnie]]

...ch centers vertically. There are eighteen tubes in all, 3/8 inch [[O.D.]] and standard commercial IMperial tube is used. ...seen. We have a 4-4-0 3-1/2 inch gauge engine with fifteen 3/8 inch tubes and cylinders 1-1/8 inch by 1-3/4 inch. She is non-superheated but can run lik

== Standard Screw Threads and Tap Drill Sizes == ! Tap Drill

...p is not very large being only 3/8 inch x 3/8 inch but the engine is small and with 3 inch wheels it will pump as much water to the mile as a 5 inch drive The pump shown is fabricated from round and square brass and I doubt if any time would be saved if a casting were used.

...designer Dave Gumz. Dave is a life member of the Golden Gate Live Steamers and is one of the good guys. One of those fellows that is always ready to help ...ersion of them in a turret array. That 4 valve array was installed in 1981 and has not required any maintenance in the 4300 miles he put on the locomotive

...kpiece using only a 3-jaw chuck. You insert a block between the workpiece and one jaw, then clamp. ...1 are further broken down as shown in Figure 2. The angle between lines Z and '''OF''' is 60 degrees. The following values are defined:

...num blocks or steel, I've even seen hardwood without bearings; just grease and when you smell wood burning re-grease! ...live steam meets someone see the CVLS tee shirt and asks "Did you know Ave and Chuck?"

Cylinders and Cylinder Heads for the Beginner's Locomotive ...scraping them. The bosses around the bolts should be rounded for neatness and the outside finished to shape.

...hey are built according to specifications, you have to use the right bulbs and number of them, or it'll snap them out fast. ...s through and file out to size. If preferable, a special tool can be made and the metal cut out to size in the shaper after first drilling to holes as be

...nt to be meticulous, however, the three jaw universal chuck is much faster and in most cases the castings can be made to run fairly true by a little exper ...sion. Center drill and drill 3/8 inch for axle, open out with boring tool and ream 7/16 inch to finish size. Follow the same operations for all four whe

...hive.org/web/20070209153853/http://www.ggls.org/ Golden Gate Live Steamers and Archive.org] ...e on a good problem. Back in 1998 I was complaining to Marty that my 'Tube and Slot' propane burner just wasn't giving me enough [[BTU|BTUs]]. He suggeste

...'s pony truck was not tracking straight. I got down on my hands and knees and noticed the pony truck pivot pin was missing. ...ted I run backwards back to Terry Town Station. That worked like a charm, and I didn't derail anymore.

...and reported that they pulled perfectly. Each car has over 2,500 “rivets” and also feature handmade turnbuckles.]] From "Stack Talk", September and November 2014, <i>[[Houston Area Live Steamers]]</i>.

...rizontal, some requiring a slot in the tank top for the handle to work in, and all requiring a detachable section of the tank top to install the pump. ...1-1/2 inch in size. The pump is held to the tank bottom by a 1/4 inch nut and a lock nut around the delivery union with a thin rubber joint to make the t

Here is a power reverse unit, patterned after the Franklin type. Designed and and at boiler pressure. Under these conditions it is very smooth in operation

...son for this is the fact that the motive power is what gets into our blood and some of the less romantic things of the high iron are slighted in more than ..., but one that looks pretty good; and best of all will stay on the rails. And, I might add, do a bit of stopping when you want to.

...to bore the axleboxes so that if in error one error will be common to all and so be canceled out. The jig is a piece of 1/4 inch steel plate with a slot ...pigot. With the other end of the side rod mounted on the other dummy axle and holding the rod against the end of the bush turn the same till the eased do

[[Adjustable Drill Jig]] ...ale and needle scriber and after the holes are drilled you can insert pins and check them, but you may have to make several tries, which takes a lot of ti

...-3/4" gauge steam locomotives and to enable me to reply to these inquiries and to enable other live steam friends to obtain the information I know of no b ...rd, and must be suitable for either indoor or outdoor locomotive running. And if, as he expected, alcohol was to be the fuel, it must not be a "poison ga

.... Now rivet a couple of strips of one-fourth by one-fourth inch steel one and one-half inches long on each side of the extension going down between the f ...urth inch. Leaving one-eighth inch thick flange, run a round nose tool in and turn a gentle taper (by eye) climaxing at about three-eighths inch diameter