11-13-2010, 11:19 AM
I found a boiler backhead casting in a detail parts lot on eBay. I made a mold of the part since it's the only one I've ever seen (here come the copyright police...I can hear them already...) and I might want to reuse it. Not sure who makes it since, as I said, I hunted through several detail parts catalogs and could not find one. I suspect the eBay parts lot may have been duplicates or excess inventory from some LHS.
That said, I don't have a Precision Scale catalog. Your LHS may have one and let you look through it so that you don't have to pay $18 for one, just to order a part or two. I have enough parts now to work on the couple steamers in my EOY contest entry but I've been collecting them at shows or online from time to time when I see a good deal.
A quick scan of eBay just now turned up a few promising listings. I searched for "HO backhead" but also look under HO detail parts or HO brass parts.
Galen
That said, I don't have a Precision Scale catalog. Your LHS may have one and let you look through it so that you don't have to pay $18 for one, just to order a part or two. I have enough parts now to work on the couple steamers in my EOY contest entry but I've been collecting them at shows or online from time to time when I see a good deal.
A quick scan of eBay just now turned up a few promising listings. I searched for "HO backhead" but also look under HO detail parts or HO brass parts.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!