[modeleng] Re: boiler making
- From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:28:06 -0600
Thank you brother Dave for the explanation,
It just seemed to me to be dangerous to have to hook the shackle in place
and tighten the turnbuckle screw when a Janney automatic knuckle coupler
would solve the entire problem. 'Course it might not work well with the
buffers in there.
Vacuum bag? Wazzit?
Jesse in windy warm Tenn-o-see
> Having "hooked on" many times on the SVR, (the fireman has to do it every
> trip, we don't have dedicated shunters), it is all in the knack. I always
> try and get the driver to ease the loco onto the stock, well compressing
> the
> buffers so I don't have to wind the screw very far. For a safety
> precaution,
> take the vacuum bag off the loco before you do anything else, this
> minimises
> any chance of the loco moving whilst you are between. Then crawl into the
> limited space and swing the shackle, weighing around half hundredweight,
> onto the hook ant tighten the screw untill there are two threads showing.
> Finally, connect the vacuum bags and exit the track. When we have gala
> weekends with demonstration loose coupled freights, I have, in the past
> used
> a shunters pole for swinging the 3-link shackles, the do not have screw
> thread adjusters and this is a knack in itself although, it is almost
> impossible to use a pole to hook on a screw shackle due to the weight. I
> have watched professional shunters at work with poles and it is an art.
>
> Dave.
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