All --
I was interested in Brother Werre's comments on SSL&S "coffee-grinders." He is
quite correct about the frames and boilers in SSL&S loco kits circa 1965-1985.
I have four locos built with SSL&S chassis and parts (but not SSL&S boilers) --
two NYC J-3a Hudsons, an NYC L-2b Mohawk, and a P&LE U-3k 0-8-0. Three of these
(all except the streamlined Hudson) run beautifully. All it takes is patience.
The fourth one, my most recently-built -- an SSL&S chassis beneath an American
Hirail Dreyfuss "20th Century" shell -- sounds like a coffee-grinder. But this
is because it hasn't yet been "run in" with jeweler's rouge, nor has it
received any extra weight yet. Jeweler's rouge dissolved in LaBelle #108 oil
works wonders for burnishing mechanisms. Only one warning: Be sure to remove
it thoroughly (clean the axles, journals, and gearing with laquer thinner) once
you are satisfied with the loco's performance, else the rouge will continue to
work in, eventually eating away the gearing.
Dick Karnes
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