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  1. Live Steam
    Anyone have a Live Steam Big Boy they are looking to sell? I am in the market. Thank you Kevin
  2. Live Steam
    Has anyone identified a product to remove baked on steam oil from painted surfaces like the area around the smoke stack? I have had success with Brake Clean but that has a tendency of removing paint as well. I have tried simple green without much success. Other thoughts? Kevin
  3. Live Steam
    I have an Accucraft NW 611 that is meth fired which has not been run for a while. As I was trying to fire it I ended up with a fuel leak under the tender (the work bench only caught a little on fire). Pulling apart the tender I don’t see anything obvious. The situation is that I am opening the...
  4. General G Scale Discussions
    Does anyone have a bachmann k27 they don’t want with the styrofoam? If so, interested in getting rid of it? I would like to use to ship. Kevin
  5. Live Steam
    Hello, I have had my K37 for a few years and overall it is a great runner. It has always had a bit of metallic "slap" and while we were down in DiamondHead Tim, Sam, and I started to look at it more closely. We identified two things: 1) It was slightly out of time which was fixed by moving the...
  6. Locomotives Classifieds
    I would like to sell my nearly unused K27. I don't have the box anymore so a local sale (near Chicago) is desirable. The trestle Is not Included. Reason for the sale is that I prefer live steam these days. The engine is mint, has nearly never been run other than testing. I can include QSI...
    $1,200.00
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  7. Live Steam
    I have been going through my locomotives and working to get them running a little better. The Daylight had really loose rod bushings which seemed easy each to fix. 60 minutes later, three new bushings on each side and the drive train is much tighter....good news. There are two other bushings...
  8. Live Steam
    Hello I am trying to diagnose an issue with a ceramic butane burner. It will light, then it gets a bit more fuel and everything seems to break down from there with large yellow flames coming out the top. Attached is a video of what I am experiencing and it seems to be the same problem in the...
  9. Locomotives Classifieds
    Hello, I am looking for two Aristocraft railbus/center cab motor blocks if anyone has them. If the only option is to buy a railbus (or two), I can consider that. Looking for the short motor blocks
  10. Live Steam
    I purchased a Regner Otto a while back and have struggled to get it to run well. I have the burner going well and it creates enough steam. My challenge appears to be in the reverser; it leaks steam and thus I can get it to run somewhat in reverse but not in forward. To fire the loco I fill...
  11. Live Steam
    Hello, I need to run my live steam loco on the bench and would like to have a view of the burners from the rear; aka run it without the tender. I am trying to find a valve that attached to 7/16 unef thread to modulate the gas before it goes to the gets. Any idea who makes something like this...
  12. Model Making
    I am working on a long term project to create a "g-scale" Chicago El train. I have received drawings of a 5000 series car, imported them into Adobe Illustrator, and begun to trace over the top and create dimensions for 1/32. The process I went through was to draw a 45MM rectangle reflecting the...
  13. Track, Trestles, Bridges and Roadbed
    Hello all I have an incredible amount of LGB track and switches that I would like to sell. Most of it is in 6' sections and wide curves with many of the largest switches. I will do an inventory this week. That said, where are most people selling track these days? FaceBook marketplace? Any idea...
  14. Sound Systems
    I purchased a used Accucraft West Side Shay a while back and am trying to determine which sound card is installed. While it works the sound is not ideal, you can hear it loop through the wav file, was going to see if I could upload a new sample but it appears this one is pretty old. Any ideas?
  15. Live Steam
    I have a new to me Regner that is leaking at the reversing lever. It would appear that the front plate? Isn’t tight enough allowing steam to leak out. Is this normal for Rengers? I thought I would ask before I started to tear it apart. I have attached a picture of the reversing lever with red...
  16. Live Steam
    Moving my live steam layout over from the Track, Trestles, Bridges and Roadbed forum. After working on the rest of the house for the last four weekends I was able to get time in on the layout. I finished the build last August and had some high/low spots. The goal on Sunday was to find a...
  17. Live Steam
    Hello, I am working to paint one of my engines and am struggling to get a smooth paint job. I have paint for metal and I have thinned it out quite a bit. I am applying it with a brush although I could move to airbrush if that is the right method. I have painted it, then wet sanded, then used...
  18. Live Steam
    I have a butane tank that isn’t really taking in butane. I think the filler valve is bent. Are these replaceable? Is there a tool to remove them? Is it possible to bend it back? When I put a butane can on it the butane shoots out the side, not into the tank. Thanks
  19. Live Steam
    Does anyone have a good place to buy machine screws in multiple sizes for live steam engines? I realize I need to bulk up on spare parts and am interested in obtaining multiple sizes and types... just not sure what exactly I should buy. M1? M2? M3? Thoughts?
  20. Track, Trestles, Bridges and Roadbed
    All, I am getting a bit too deep in this live steam hobby and am going to now work to build my own elevated layout. It is going to be in Southern Wisconsin so there will be frost heave and I am looking at a space of about 25-30' wide and 75-100' long. I am aiming to have >10 foot radius curves...
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