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 Post subject: Looking for Tapered Cast Washers
PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:27 pm 

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Location: Orange Empire Railway Museum
Looking for a supplier or borrow a pattern for the old style thrust washers. For example a 1/2" id washer would be 1" on "top" surface and taper to 2+" on the bottom, and would be about 1/2" thick. The were used everywhere. However, can not find a supplier for anything like these. Thanks


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 Post subject: Re: Looking for Tapered Cast Washers
PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:21 pm 

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A friend passed along this information, on your request.


McMaster-Carr carries the type of washer that you describe.

Their online catalog is at http://www.mcmaster.com/

Search for "Western Washers".

I tried to paste some images in this post, but could not get it to work properly.

Regards,

John Redden
R&GV RR Museum


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 Post subject: Re: Looking for Tapered Cast Washers
PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:07 am 

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Location: Orange Empire Railway Museum
I actually found the thing when I got the right name. They are OGEE washers and I found a place that still casts them and has them in stock up to 1.5 inch ID. The company is Lawler Manufacturing in Alabama, and they’re on the Web.


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