Hi!
A little introducing of myself, my Name is Gerald, i’m living in Austria near Salzburg.
My Hobby is Model-Railroading, espacial Livesteam in 1:22 or 1:20,3.
Wrote this days 2 Postings in the Live Steam Forum here in Largescalecentral. I won’t not disturb jon’s Thread “Problems with the Accucraft 2 Cyl.Shay”.
So you can read here what is possible to obviate Jon’s Problem (Slippery tracks from the Steam Oil exhaustet out of the smokestack of his Shay).
Make your Loco “oilfree”
Two guys, writing also in our Forum schienendampf.com here in Austria had a Idea to make Regner Locos cleaner.
Christian and Wolfgang wrote threads to instruct Members who own Regner Loco with simple oscillating Cylinder, like the Easy-Line Modells Lumber Jack, Willi or Konrad from Regner Germany.
I own a 15 Year old lathe and milling machine from EMCO, old but exact.
Reading this instructions i’m tried to recreate this.
The original intstruction from Christian
http://www.schienendampf.com/34487225nx30160/tuning-f35/umbau-easy-line-maschinen-auf-dampfoelfreien-betrieb-t1112.html
And here’s my modification of my Konrad step by step:
http://www.schienendampf.com/34487225nx30160/tuning-f35/regners-easy-line-zylinder-mit-teflonkolben-t1318.html
You see, i also made bearings of PTFE, same material like the tread used for the cylinders, for all axles and driving shafts. The Problem with the original Regner Locos is. When you run the locos often after a time the stainless shafts destroy the holes in the brass Frames of the machines (the round hole changes into a oval hole). Also the cylinder slidings get deep scores.
It’s also possible to modificate Loco with Heusinger-Steuerung and valve controlled sliders (don’t know the right technical word in english).
But see here:
http://www.schienendampf.com/34487225nx30160/tuning-f35/umbau-zur-oelfreien-und-verschleissarmen-live-steam-lok-t1018.html
At last, sorry for my bad english, reading this must be like a Infant wrote this Thread.
Greetings from Austria, Gerald