Clearwater Valley Railway Co.

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the comments Jerry, Rich, Curt, Rick, Larry and Kyle, they are very much appreciated.  The miter saw makes doing repetitive angle cuts consistent. Not only does it speed up production, it makes for very accurate cuts.

Only had to work a half day today and have the rest of the weekend off.    I decided it was time to tackle the "NBW" issue.  

This update is called ........

If I Ever See Another NBW Casting I'm Going to . . . . . . .

Well it was time to drill a gazillion holes for the gazillion NBW castings.




In order to drill the holes required for the NBW castings I used my new mini drill press.  I went through a few drill bits before I realized that the drill RPM was to low, so I ran it at full speed and the broken drill bit problem went away.   

The drill press came with a variable speed controller.





The holes drilled for the NBW castings.





In order to find and prevent the casting migrating I cut then off the sprue and placed them in the ceramic dish. (they look like ants in a dish.   )





The NBW casting installed on the first bent.





The four bents completed.

Thanks for looking in.

[PRR Modeler]

Outstanding job with the NBW's Ron. I think the hardest part of the task is picking them up with the tweezers.

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron, the bents with NBSs look perfect. Excellent work as usual.  Have fun, mike

[Larry C]

Ron very nice little drill press and the bents look great with all the NBW's installed. Keep up the awesome work.

[Rick]

Ron, that's a neat looking drill press.
Nice job on the NBW's.

[deemery]

Are you using a foot pedal to turn the drill on and off?  Having recently done some trestles, I know how annoying that gets.  The NBW castings in the white dish is good idea.

dave

[Jerry]

Great job Ron.  I didn't see any curse words so I assume it went pretty well!! 

Where did you get tht drill press??  Or did you make it!!

Jerry