09-22-2010, 10:53 PM
Gonna work on the shifter again so I thought I'd better make good on my word and update this thread.
Here are two pictures from mid-Dec. last year of work I did on the power reverse unit and right-side linkage, modifying the valve gear to include a lifting link. It was really pretty straight forward thanks to a wide spot on the valve gear that seemed to be made for this application. Filing and drilling the little brass pieces wasn't as hard as I thought, though I don't think I'd want to do a whole valve gear that way. Probably could at this point but glad to just modify this rather than create something totally from scratch.
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The second pic is the power reverse unit itself and the flat brass 'hooks' are what I added on to mount it to the boiler and running board. This seemed to work well until I was adding the diamond plate to the running board and the power reverse just popped off. Oops. Oh well, next time I'll use epoxy instead of C-A.
Galen
Here are two pictures from mid-Dec. last year of work I did on the power reverse unit and right-side linkage, modifying the valve gear to include a lifting link. It was really pretty straight forward thanks to a wide spot on the valve gear that seemed to be made for this application. Filing and drilling the little brass pieces wasn't as hard as I thought, though I don't think I'd want to do a whole valve gear that way. Probably could at this point but glad to just modify this rather than create something totally from scratch.
[albumimg]2979[/albumimg]
[albumimg]2980[/albumimg]
The second pic is the power reverse unit itself and the flat brass 'hooks' are what I added on to mount it to the boiler and running board. This seemed to work well until I was adding the diamond plate to the running board and the power reverse just popped off. Oops. Oh well, next time I'll use epoxy instead of C-A.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!