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If boiler mounting holes are in back of frame as I suspect they were originally,making a mount further back than original on mike frame would not require as much work(filing)and make for an easy conversion.I look forward to completing this faze and moving on to detailing,the mechanism and valve gear is completed. ?? Alan From: Alan
To: yardbirdtrains@... Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:48 PM Subject: [yardbirdtrains] Re: Mantua 2-8-2 mikado Ideas
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The boiler I got had been modified already,it looks to me going by file marks that the pad where mounting holes I will be using were filed into boiler(not original?)to fit the mike(shorter?)frame,not having a pacific to compare am not sure.Other than milling out some material from inside of pac boiler to accomodate worm,with high speed dremel cutter it took me less than a minute to do,the rear mount is the only thing you may need to change I'm using a 1/4 x 1/16" brass for mine with screws coming up from bottom into tapped holes in boiler support to mount to frame.I am using these holes that line up with frame perfectly but back of boiler sticks up which is why I cut notches in rear of frame and made new boiler mount plate.I do not like the large space between frame and bottom of boiler on these locos so I also lowered the front saddle by filing down frame where cyl.rests and removing additional material by cutting/lowering cyl.saddle,if
lowering you will need to remove the nubs inside top of boiler,this is not neccesary but is more prototypical height.Its not difficult only drawback your arm may get tired from filing for mount.
Alan --- In mailto:yardbirdtrains%40yahoogroups.com, Karen M Miller wrote: > > Thanks for the sugestion. How well does the Pacific Boiler mount? > Donovan > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alan > To: mailto:yardbirdtrains%40yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, November 29, 2012 11:17:20 AM > Subject: [yardbirdtrains] Re: Mantua 2-8-2 mikado Ideas > > ?? > in photo album "mike repl. boiler" there are pictures of the one I'm currently > building using pacific boiler,leaning towards lehigh valley loco,there are > pictures of a few different ones along with vandy tender that mounts using > longhaul tender frame I'm thinking of using.I found some pictures and plans by > googling railway engineering locos. > > Alan > > --- In mailto:yardbirdtrains%40yahoogroups.com, "Karen M" wrote: > > > > I'm in the midddle of building my seccond Mantua 2-8-2 and have no clue what to > >make it. The other is a freelanced Union Pacific mikado with the stock boiler > >and some added parts from Yardbird. Any ideas on what to make the seccond one? > > > |
