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 Post subject: Re: Italian Articulated with Caprotti Valve Gear
PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:17 am 

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If I remember correctly, this line was the one to receive the majority of the old steam shop equipment from Copenhagen Central Workshops. Believe it happened when they closed down the traditional machine shop ca. 2011...? We're talking a wheel lathe, quartering machine, and some other various old bits of hardware so often sought after. Thankfully we have a small portion of the old boiler tool collection.

Sure wish it was all still here for our current project hiding in the wings... but at least it has gone to good use helping another group!

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 Post subject: Re: Italian Articulated with Caprotti Valve Gear
PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:11 pm 

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10stewi wrote:
If I remember correctly, this line was the one to receive the majority of the old steam shop equipment from Copenhagen Central Workshops. Believe it happened when they closed down the traditional machine shop ca. 2011...? We're talking a wheel lathe, quartering machine, and some other various old bits of hardware so often sought after. Thankfully we have a small portion of the old boiler tool collection.

Sure wish it was all still here for our current project hiding in the wings... but at least it has gone to good use helping another group!

Hear Hear! Good for the Danes to help out the ER. In the Australian video J3a-614 posted earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpnNmkoQZfo the shop master mentioned the scarcity of tools to work on the engines after the railroad was shut down for twenty or so years and was mostly dismantled, he probably meant steam and diesel both, and I was daydreaming about where one could acquire such tools (whatever they are, I am not well versed enough in locomotive backshops to have a clue). But the Danes came through, probably all metric stuff too, and European voltages, etc.


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