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softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sat Nov 14, 2020 6:03 pm

Make those pads a little larger and they would make a nice sofa pillow.

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:27 pm

EJ Berry wrote:

Thaddeus Stevens himself was in the US House of Representatives and was Ways and Means Chairman during the Civil War.

He was portrayed in the movie Lincoln by Tommy Lee Jones.

Dave Lewandoski · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:58 pm **Posts:** 1061

Fantastic work by awesome people!

Kelly Anderson · **Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:24 pm

Howard P. wrote:

So.... about those pads: will there be standard car journal sizes also?

We purchase the foam filler by the large sheet, and saw it to size in house, so yes, pads can be available in any size requested.

softwerkslex wrote:

Make those pads a little larger and they would make a nice sofa pillow.

I tried that. Too firm for my taste.

Randy Musselman wrote:

Kelly,

Very nice set up for the axle keyway milling, Bridgeport head on old-school planer. Dividing head looks like a full universal.

Lots of room on the planer table for set up.

Did you modify the planer to feed slow enough for end milling or do they have a creeper mode by default? The old planers I have seen working seem to have a very high feed rate for the traditional single point tools.

The planer is a very old flat belt machine, so it has one speed. For milling, we added a geared down hand feed to the main table drive, so the machinist can strengthen his wrist on something other than foamer magazines.

sandiapaul wrote:

How did you machine the insides of the driving boxes? Almost looks like EDM?

The boxes are machined on a “slotter”. It is the vertical relative of a metal shaper. A high speed steel tool bit similar to a lathe tool bit goes in the lower end of the boring bar, and the ram that holds the boring bar strokes down and back up to take a cut and return. The rotary table that the driving box is sitting on is part of the machine, and power feeds on the up stroke to rotate for the next cutting stroke.

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MD Ramsey wrote:

You are teasing me with that WP&Y proposal....if I was smarter mechanically, I would be all over that one. :)

Don’t mark yourself down Mike, you know what you are doing as well as anyone.

Scranton Yard wrote:

As for the fire pits, will the bases be equipped with an ash pan, grates, and a shaker?

Sorry. No Butterfly fire door either.

yerkesmz · **Joined:** Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:48 pm **Posts:** 6

Gotta love all that nice, new, narrow gauge-looking equipment :)

Sincerely, a man who has a rodent for a boss

sandiapaul · **Posted:** Thu Nov 26, 2020 9:33 am

Thanks Kelly, I didn't know you guys had a slotter. That would be the ticket. I wish I worked there!

ted66 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:16 am

Kelly,

You folks seem to be involved with the revived East Broadtop.

For some time a Friends of the EBT project in the Strasburg Shop has bee new trucks for an EBT Coach.

Any news on that project?

Ted Miles, EBT Member

Kelly Anderson · **Posted:** Sat Nov 28, 2020 2:27 pm

ted66 wrote:

Kelly,

You folks seem to be involved with the revived East Broadtop.

For some time a Friends of the EBT project in the Strasburg Shop has bee new trucks for an EBT Coach.

Any news on that project?

Ted Miles, EBT Member

Minimally involved. To date, we have only supplied EBTF with a few small parts. Other projects have been discussed, but that's all.

We did build reproduction car trucks for the Friends that were completed in 2013. I personally am not clear about what car they are to go under.

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