Dick Middleton sent me his SGL brass Reading heavy Pacific to see what’s making this thing run so poorly on his layout ,....as many of you know that own these SGL’s one of the problems right out the gate is the lack of a flywheel....and really no place to put one,...there’s no room out back, so we had to look at the nose shaft and see what could be done,....I figured a slim but heavy flywheel could hide behind the belt drive and live there happily, so that’s the route we went......first order of business was to true up the belt drive pulley, although it looked round, it was far from true, hardly a good place to mount a flywheel,....runout on the belt pulley’s outer surface was border line ugly, so a quick trip to the lathe brought it in true, I had to knock off some of the protruding lips on the pulley to make the flywheel set in and over, so while it was chucked up, I machined those surfaces down as well,....now the flywheel is completely serviceable, with a snug slip fit, and drilled & tapped for a 4-40 set screw,....the aging QSI electronics will be gutted like a fish, and Dick plans on conventional operations, so we’ll outfit it with a Dallee reverser, ERR sounds, 4 chuffs, and fan smoke in time,....stay tuned, ...Dick is through the worst of it now,..😉
Pat
