Building Brass Quarry Line cars

[Philip]

Nice work Bernd. I should really pay attention. I thought you were making the bearings flanged by turning them down one at a time. A clever way to omit friction!
Philip

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[Bernd]

Nice work Bernd. I should really pay attention. I thought you were making the bearings flanged by turning them down one at a time. A clever way to omit friction!
Philip

Disregard my PM

Thanks Philip.

If you go back to page 1 post#7 it shows all the parts and assembly of said parts. I used a brass rod drilled out and reamed for the bearings to fit in snug. The OD of the rod fits the curved cutouts on the chassis frame. The bearing tubes were soldered on first using the jig in the center of the picture. The bearings and wheels were then pressed on to gauge.

Bernd

[Philip]

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[Bernd]

While sitting here at Northern Command (1000 Island camp) waiting for the rain to come I've been contemplating on designing a mechanical stop for the dumper. Since it's using magnets to drive the rotary part, I am looking at using a solid stop. It won't damage the drive. It'll just keep slipping on the magnetic drive wheels. Also need to come with a design to hold the car on the tracks while rotating it when dumping the loaded car.

Should have brought it with me to get a better idea if some of the ideas I have would work. Maybe next time, but then it probably wouldn't be raining, and the other half would want to go for a boat ride. Water temp up here is 50°.

Bernd