Good morning to everyone,
It's a fairly cool wet morning here in Coarsegold. Per WW it's: 46.0 °F - feels like 45 °F, Humidity is 99% according to WW but it's raining fairly heavily out side so it must be 100%! Supposedly Winds are from the ENE at 3.2 but I rally don't see any indication of that the way the rain is falling. If it keeps raining like this I may well get 2" even later this morning. It's not the heaviest rain I ever seen but it coming down very good! I'll really see how my roof repair job is now! Keeping my fingers crossed.
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On the railroading front I found that the method I used to somewhat secure the Universal to the Jack Shaft assembly end, [the shaft and two worm gears] that drive the gears on the axel of the wheels, was slipping as the shaft was highly polished so I figured the simplest way to resolve the situation was to add some splines to it by using an the point of an exacto knife to form a shallow grove on the end of the shaft. So I again put more Hobby Tack in the cups of the Universal drive piece and I'll again slip the universal on the shaft to see hoe it holds? Actually though I remembered that my machinist friend, Ken Barnhart showed me to use the flat edge of a file with the cutting groves running straight across it and place the shaft end on a solid surface like the flat part on the back of a vice and press down on the file and roll it forward till most or all of the shaft end has splines pressed into it. This should then really give the cup of the universal as well as the HT something to hang on to.
It's after 1:00 Am, so I think I'll continue this later on this morning.
Talk with you again.
