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Blackstone C19 tender modification question
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George Pierson
Hi, all,
I'm new to the list so I hope my question has not been already worked over. I love my Blackstone C19's. I use them on my Tuscarora Valley RR, and central PA n.g. pike. My one complaint is that the stock Blackstone tender is a typical D&RGW higher side tender with an air tank. Eastern 2-8-0's of this vintage often had smaller lower-sided tenders - which is what I'd like to do to my model. BUT the decoder board is mounted relatively high, necessitating the use of a high-side tender. This allows for space underneath for the stock speaker frame. Here's my question: what do you all think of removing the decoder board, removing the existing speaker frame and speaker, replacing it with a lower profile speaker, then cutting down the four posts holding up the decoder board, and re-attaching the decoder board? This would allow me to use a lower profile tender shell. Your thoughts? George Pierson
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tonyk537
You can get a somewhat lower profile shell with the stock electronics. These two oil bunkers are al low as you can get over everything.
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Bill Miller
Western Rails makes a 3-D printed replacement tender shell that Looks more eastern Narrow Gauge that fits over the tender electronics. https://western-rails.com/
Bill Miller
-----Original Message-----
From: George Pierson <gpierson@...> To: HOn3 <HOn3@groups.io> Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 11:52 pm Subject: [HOn3] Blackstone C19 tender modification question Hi, all,
I'm new to the list so I hope my question has not been already worked over. I love my Blackstone C19's. I use them on my Tuscarora Valley RR, and central PA n.g. pike. My one complaint is that the stock Blackstone tender is a typical D&RGW higher side tender with an air tank. Eastern 2-8-0's of this vintage often had smaller lower-sided tenders - which is what I'd like to do to my model. BUT the decoder board is mounted relatively high, necessitating the use of a high-side tender. This allows for space underneath for the stock speaker frame. Here's my question: what do you all think of removing the decoder board, removing the existing speaker frame and speaker, replacing it with a lower profile speaker, then cutting down the four posts holding up the decoder board, and re-attaching the decoder board? This would allow me to use a lower profile tender shell. Your thoughts? George Pierson
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Fantastic weathering on #64!
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Mark Kasprowicz
George,
I do not see why not. Provided there is enough clearance for the underside of the circuit board not to foul any metal parts then something like a sugar cube speaker would allow you a few precious millimetres. In fact if the speaker was placed in the coal load pointing up rather than down then the saving could be substantial. Now if this was a BS K-27 I'd be saying chuck the old board out and fit a TSU2! But the C-19 sound was a big improvement on previous projects as Sound traxx were working with fresh recordings. Mark K
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Robert Bell
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Tony:
What did you use for the oil tender shells on your CB&Q #536 and the C&NWR #64? Great looking models. Thanks and be well, Len Raley
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Len, I bought the water tender version of the western rails tenders and the quality is superb. lloyd lehrer, MANHATTAN BEACH, CA (310)951-9097
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:49 AM LenTRaley via Groups.Io <lentraley=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote: Tony: --
lloyd lehrer
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Lloyd:
I have checked out that one and it certainly looks good and at a very fair price. I was wondering if Tony had another source. I'm going to order a couple of the Western Rails units. Merry Christmas and be well, Len
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