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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
tonyk537
Nice cabinet. I had seen a similar one in a hobby shop and always planned to build a similar one.
Then I ran into a blueprint cabinet at a swap meet and lined it with cardboard sheetrock shims for dividers. They are 41" deep and 53' wide so the lumber goes the other way.
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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
asandrini
Cabinet is 28" wide, to hold 24" long pieces of scale lumber. Cabinet is about 7" high and 11" deep. As I also use scale plastic strips as well, I keep a few sticks of plastic in the dividers with the wood. I would be lost without the ease of grabbing the correct size pieces instantly. Al Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Bill Lugg <luggw1@...> Date: 1/25/20 8:39 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler and the drawers are deep enough to hold all the sizes for a given thickness of lumber, right? A brilliant design! Bill Lugg On 1/25/20 9:26 PM, asandrini wrote: > Sorry, fat fingers hit the sent button and not the attach button. > > Photos attached this time. > Al > > > > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: asandrini <asandrini@...> > Date: 1/25/20 8:23 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: HOn3@groups.io, asandrini@... > Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler > > I have been asked to post a couple of pictures of my Kappler Lumber > Company lumber yard. > > Photos attached. > > Al > > > > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "kevin b via Groups.Io" <arcatruck13@...> > Date: 1/25/20 6:01 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: HOn3@groups.io > Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler > > > > any chance you'd post a photo or two of that box? > i'd like a shot at making one as my lumber yard is in tubes and > scattered to the winds etc. > > > I had saved mailing tubes to store the lumber, and labeled the tubes > with the sizes. It was a mess and took up a lot of space. One day > Frank walked into my shop and presented me with 7x8x28 inch, 7 drawer > box. The drawers had dividers to hold HO scale 1x2's through 12x12's, > plus two bottom drawers to hold his siding material. > > thanks. > Kevin. >
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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
So, if I understand the cabinet correctly, it's a little over 12" wide and the drawers are deep enough to hold all the sizes for a given thickness of lumber, right?
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A brilliant design! Bill Lugg
On 1/25/20 9:26 PM, asandrini wrote:
Sorry, fat fingers hit the sent button and not the attach button.
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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
asandrini
Sorry, fat fingers hit the sent button and not the attach button. Photos attached this time. Al Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: asandrini <asandrini@...> Date: 1/25/20 8:23 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io, asandrini@... Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler I have been asked to post a couple of pictures of my Kappler Lumber Company lumber yard. Photos attached. Al Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "kevin b via Groups.Io" <arcatruck13@...> Date: 1/25/20 6:01 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler any chance you'd post a photo or two of that box? i'd like a shot at making one as my lumber yard is in tubes and scattered to the winds etc. I had saved mailing tubes to store the lumber, and labeled the tubes with the sizes. It was a mess and took up a lot of space. One day Frank walked into my shop and presented me with 7x8x28 inch, 7 drawer box. The drawers had dividers to hold HO scale 1x2's through 12x12's, plus two bottom drawers to hold his siding material. thanks. Kevin.
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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
asandrini
I have been asked to post a couple of pictures of my Kappler Lumber Company lumber yard. Photos attached. Al Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "kevin b via Groups.Io" <arcatruck13@...> Date: 1/25/20 6:01 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io Subject: Re: [HOn3] Remembering Frank Kappler any chance you'd post a photo or two of that box? i'd like a shot at making one as my lumber yard is in tubes and scattered to the winds etc. I had saved mailing tubes to store the lumber, and labeled the tubes with the sizes. It was a mess and took up a lot of space. One day Frank walked into my shop and presented me with 7x8x28 inch, 7 drawer box. The drawers had dividers to hold HO scale 1x2's through 12x12's, plus two bottom drawers to hold his siding material. thanks. Kevin.
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Re: Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company
asandrini
I have 417 built. Built it almost 40 years ago. Now, I would love to pair the two buildings together. Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "Robert Bell via Groups.Io" <ionhoss@...> Date: 1/25/20 3:53 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io Subject: Re: [HOn3] Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company
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Re: 493 MOVES!
Robert Veefkind
very nice Mark. Was most of the work done in Durango? are you there now? Bob Veefkind
In a message dated 1/25/2020 4:17:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, marowicz@... writes:
Great news, it's nearly four years since it was brought down from Silverton.
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Re: Remembering Frank Kappler
kevin b
any chance you'd post a photo or two of that box? i'd like a shot at making one as my lumber yard is in tubes and scattered to the winds etc. I had saved mailing tubes to store the lumber, and labeled the tubes with the sizes. It was a mess and took up a lot of space. One day Frank walked into my shop and presented me with 7x8x28 inch, 7 drawer box. The drawers had dividers to hold HO scale 1x2's through 12x12's, plus two bottom drawers to hold his siding material. thanks. Kevin.
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Remembering Frank Kappler
asandrini
I was working on a structure this afternoon, when I needed a few pieces of 4x6. I went to my Kappler Lumber Yard, and fondly thought of a good friend from over 40 years ago. Frank Kappler lived in Santa Barbars and I would run into him at Daylight Division meets, NMRA conventions, etc. We became good friends. In my hobby shop, I stocked Kappler lumber, which I purchased in bulk. He had a female employee (cannot remember her name, Susan, Sharon, seems like something starting with an S) whose mother lived in Bakersfield. She would drive over to visit her mom and deliver the wood. I had saved mailing tubes to store the lumber, and labeled the tubes with the sizes. It was a mess and took up a lot of space. One day Frank walked into my shop and presented me with 7x8x28 inch, 7 drawer box. The drawers had dividers to hold HO scale 1x2's through 12x12's, plus two bottom drawers to hold his siding material. I sold material to customers by the piece from 1968 through 2006, when I retired. Today, my Kappler Lumber Yard is fully stocked and one foot to the right of my workbenches. I order lumber in bulk (50 pieces at a time) so I never run short during construction. One thing that Frank shared with me was his idea of a fold-up structure. He was going to provide structures with the walls pre cut and you folded the walls together like a paper cut out structure. You glued an inside corner post to secure the corners, then topped with a pre-cut roof. Unfortunately, Frank passed soon after showing me his design. The model railroad community lost a great mind and a fine gentleman that day. I wonder how many if his lumber yard boxes are still in use today. Al Sandrini Big Al from Cal Bakersfield, Ca Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
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Re: Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company
Robert Bell
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Re: Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company
asandrini
Robert, Someone sent me (could have been you earlier in the week) the dimensions of the two buildings. With your scan, I can interpilate the distances between the structures. Now I am ready to go. The scratch building of the shop should be straight forward and I have many sets of Grant windows. Thank you very much. If I can print the drawings out full size and tape them together. I can lay it out on the layout to get the correct track center lines before I tackle the construction. Grazzi, Al Sandrini Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "Robert Bell via Groups.Io" <ionhoss@...> Date: 1/25/20 2:13 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io, asandrini <asandrini@...>, HOn30@groups.io, HOn3@groups.io, ModelRailroadsofSoCalif@groups.io Subject: Re: [HOn3] Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company Rob Bell
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Re: Campbell's Saez Sash & Door Company
Robert Bell
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Re: Keystone GE 44 ton
asandrini
Hi John, I still have one running, and it did have a flywheel and a Sagami motor. Thanks for remembering the "old man", Big Al from Cal Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: John Stutz <john.stutz@...> Date: 1/25/20 1:49 PM (GMT-08:00) To: HOn3@groups.io, "Stephen Silver via Groups.Io" <ssilver996@...> Subject: Re: [HOn3] Keystone GE 44 ton Keystone once offered an HO gauge drive for their 44 ton GE, which was built for them by NWSL. It was a special order item, offered either powered or as a bare chassis and trucks. It has Athren/Kato/etc. style gear tower trucks with NWSL brass gears, in a narrow profile tower about 7mm wide in the body, and 12mm over the axle bearings. So it should be easy to narrow down to HOn3. It has NWSL ball cups on the worm shafts, about 2" clear between faces, presumably for a double shafted can motor of about 25mm length. One might even get in a short flywheel. I bought a couple of the unpowered version from Al Sandrini (Big Al from Cal) about 20 years ago, when he still had his Bakersfield hobby shop. I had intended to convert them for the narrow gauge C-C version of the GE 70 ton engine, but they are not easily extended. So I am willing to sell them, and if you want to try one, please reply off list. John Stutz On January 12, 2020 at 5:12 PM "Stephen Silver via Groups.Io" <ssilver996@...> wrote:
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Re: Keystone GE 44 ton
John Stutz
Stephen
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Keystone once offered an HO gauge drive for their 44 ton GE, which was built for them by NWSL. It was a special order item, offered either powered or as a bare chassis and trucks. It has Athren/Kato/etc. style gear tower trucks with NWSL brass gears, in a narrow profile tower about 7mm wide in the body, and 12mm over the axle bearings. So it should be easy to narrow down to HOn3. It has NWSL ball cups on the worm shafts, about 2" clear between faces, presumably for a double shafted can motor of about 25mm length. One might even get in a short flywheel. I bought a couple of the unpowered version from Al Sandrini (Big Al from Cal) about 20 years ago, when he still had his Bakersfield hobby shop. I had intended to convert them for the narrow gauge C-C version of the GE 70 ton engine, but they are not easily extended. So I am willing to sell them, and if you want to try one, please reply off list. John Stutz
On January 12, 2020 at 5:12 PM "Stephen Silver via Groups.Io" <ssilver996@...> wrote:
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WTB PFM valve gear screws
Lee Gustafson
WTB PFM valve gear screws 1.0 x 1.5 mm and 1.0 x 2.0, 1.0 x 3.0 and 1.0 x 4.0 packages. Thanks
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Lee Gustafson Email. Bagustaf at aol dot com
On Jan 25, 2020, at 3:17 AM, Mark Kasprowicz <marowicz@...> wrote:
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module meet
M2fq@...
All
with the announcement of Kimberton Module Meet not returning, we at Midwest NG Show have secured more space in our modern 30000 sq foot faculty and can accomodate any layout, any size and scale! BTW Midwest NG is the largest all scale NG show in the US. Floor is amazing (not concrete) hard rubber compound thats easy on your feet and level. http://www.portlandlocomotiveworks.com/events/28th-midwest-scale-train-show/ Gary Kohler m2fq@... 330-719-0264
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493 MOVES!
Mark Kasprowicz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIy0XzEJ-Ok
Great news, it's nearly four years since it was brought down from Silverton. Mark K
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Re: Rio grande models
Mark Kasprowicz
Wasn't there someone who posted here to say he'd bought all of RGM's stock? As for why Eric is giving up, probably for the same reason Dave Grandt threw in the towel - getting on in years. Also he and Jim Vail were good friends and with Jim passing perhaps it wasn't quite the same anymore?
Just a thought. Mark K
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NWL good news
I had a nice chat with Lezlee in the NWSL warehouse last week (she called me to get a fresh credit card number) and this week almost all of the remainder of my orders from last spring showed up, including a couple MDC HOn3 shay and Lokie regear kits. On the call she indicated that some items listed as discontinued on invoices after I tried to order them last year were now 'recontinued"? (my word), including those little 50:1 gearboxes, the 170-6 and 171-6.
I think am finally starting to feel a little back to normal. Now if RGMs can land somewhere and Grandt Line can get back online, this year might really turn out well....=) BTW I think Lezlee indicated that the new owner was the guy who made the gears for them?? -- Brian Kopp Jacksonville, FL
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Re: One of those days.....
LARRY KLOSE
I tried to reverse the leads on one of these. Unfortunately, there were two leads on that particular buss tap. Duhhhh…
I don’t do that anymore—bad practice.
Larry
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