Garden Railway Forum

All those rivets! - but the final result is well worth it.  This is going to be a very nice steam loco indeed. 1. Where did you buy those brass scaled rivets? The sewing pin heads are not symmetrical and the shafts are usually not centered on the heads 2. Is that a special tool you've made to punch...

Hi, This is my first time posting here. I have an Accucraft A3 model but after connecting the two copper tubes (water tubes) from the tender into the engine's ENOTS joints, I tried to disconnect them. One came off OK but the other failed no matter I followed the manual direction which is: To remove ...

Hi Jim, Glad you'll be fixing the flanges.  Make sure the depth for all the flanges are same more or less if you care.  Though you're filing all of the drivers (one side at a time) at once with a long file, if the axles are sprung, their spring functions may not be same.  I noted a lot of UK's model...

I would wait till you fix the lathe and do whatever leveling to it. But, if not, here are some methods you may try. 1. A Hand job method. You can turn the driver wheels and file them one side (left drivers 1st, then right) at a time, measure the flange several time to your desired depth. That's what...