Dave,
I might have to send you a care package of clamps. I am bored waiting for you to stop being bored and get something done. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
Nice trucks. Are those brass side frames?
Devon Sinsley said:
Dave,
I might have to send you a care package of clamps. I am bored waiting for you to stop being bored and get something done. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
Good, I was going to send him to Harbor Freight for the Clamps in a Jar special!
@John, I’ve all ready have that in my plans for today…
@Dan No Brass… English Pewter. with a touch of silver for hardness. Cast them myself.
OK GUYS… Setting around waiting for glue to dry, and I came up with something else to build to take up my time… Another project for Mik 2019
Any Guess what this pile of lumber will turn into?
I’ll fire up the pin nailer today… and watch glue dry.
A half height stock car?
Dave I’m curious about your alloy, how can a higher melt silver mix with a cooler pewter?
What is your casting temp?
John Caughey said:
Dave I’m curious about your alloy, how can a higher melt silver mix with a cooler pewter?
What is your casting temp?
We demand answers. I thought I was using the same type of stuff as you and I don’t think the stuff I am using has any silver in it. I get my stuff from Roto Metals and believe it is their R-98 Pewter which is 98% tin .5% copper and 1.5% bismuth. I think thats the stuff I bought. Been awhile now.
OK guys… The mystery wood pile is to be another boxcar… But a old style… Outside Braced, and Wagon Top.
I started with the bottom beams.
Carefully glued and pinned the vertical braces.
Finished the side framing.
And added the diagonals.
Added the decking, with extending out the doors.
Added the siding inside.
And it’s starting to look a lot like a boxcar.
And added the wagon top roof braces.
And added the facias… and had to wait for glue to dry…again.
And thats all I got done today…
That’s it?(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Nice I want to make a few shortys like this for the indoor.
I like it. That’s the style of boxcar I want on my pike. Well, except for the round top…
The wooden braced, and wagon top, Date from the 1880’s and earlier. In the 1880- 1910’s outside braced cars used steel for the braces. And the “wagon top” was fazed out in the early 1880’s but hung around on RR’s for years, and a lot became MOW cars as revenue years ended.
Dave, I was wrong before when I said a man couldn’t have too many boxcars. I believe you will soon have at least one too many, so I’ll begrudgingly take it off your hands so you won’t get in trouble with the RR gods (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)That will be a sweet looking car.
Oh I like that with the outside bracing and round roof.
Dave Taylor said:
The wooden braced, and wagon top, Date from the 1880’s and earlier. In the 1880- 1910’s outside braced cars used steel for the braces. And the “wagon top” was fazed out in the early 1880’s but hung around on RR’s for years, and a lot became MOW cars as revenue years ended.
Here is a link to the history of B&O’s Wagon Top caboose and Box cars.
https://www.american-rails.com/wagontops.html
Tells you more then you want to know, unless your a B&O fan.
Spent some time last night getting the roof on the Wagon Top.
And a side by side.
Sacked like cord wood, which is still a possibility before this thing ends.
Also got all the scribbled siding on the other two boxcars.
Todays goals: Get the roof on the cars. I’m shooting for a “Murphy Roof” on these cars. All my other cars have wood roofs. I’ll use 3mm sentra board
Dave,
That outside braced wagon top car is cool. Both are but I like the uniqueness of that design. I see a couple 20 footers in my future.
Dang it, Dave, now you got me wanting to build boxcars (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)I can’t focus on my Mik project for drooling over your work and everybody else’s. Great job. As I mentioned before, the exterior braced boxcar is just the cat’s a$$. I like it, I like it, I like it …
thank you, Dave for the interesting (and time eating) link!
