Well???? Many steam locos have plastic or composition insulators on the
axles where the drivers are pressed on. Do they ever melt from heat?--I
know they sometimes make the drivers wobble--before any steaming! With
"superb" effort I managed to "melt" the insulators on the front drivers on
my Merlin Hunslet (with a rampant butane fire going down instead of up the
stack) -now replaced with brass bushings and JB Weld. Anyway, if I used
plastic drivers they would have to made by NASA!!.--probably at $50000 a
driver!!
Geoff the Melter.
>In a message dated 4/30/2000 4:29:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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>> So in other words, "Try it and see"? {:)
>I would sure hate to take a locomotive apart just because the wheels melted!!
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