Hi Darrell, There was a whole series of articles on just such an engine, in MR
in the fifties and early sixties...They were called something like "...Build a
Kitchen table top engine..." there were 4-4-0's, and other steam engine skratch
building articles, including everything necessary to build frames, cylinders,
running gear etc.. The basic idea was a low tech (no lathes or machine shop
stuff) home hand tools, the hand drill was very necessary in a lot of the
techiniques, and of course a lot of hand work cutting brass stock with a
jewlers saw, good set of a variety of files....etc. The author was, I believe,
Mel Thornburo (sp?). I learned a lot from these type of articles and still
utilize many of the techniques etc. Most of these articles were written for O
or HO but are easily transposed to S.
I wish I could be of more specific help, my RR modeling mags are all packed
up...pending my move... or I would have been able to give you specific issues
to look for.
S gaugingly yours,
Peter Loeb
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