[modeleng] Re: boiler making
- From: "Eric Walker" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:34:39 -0000
Jesse , Vacuum bag, that's what they call the vacuum pipe as they used to
call the leather water bag on the water column.
E.W.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:28 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: boiler making
> 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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