Re: A Bona-Fide McConnell Stack

Posted by Jim Courtney on Feb 26, 2025; 7:13pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/A-Bona-Fide-McConnell-Stack-tp20528p20532.html

Mike and Dave have exchanged emails with me last eve and this morning. I will be ordering 5 of the McConnel stacks for my slow to materialize 1901 locomotive roster.

Up until now, I been struggling with the old Leadville Shops S scale brass castings. So far I have 2 assembled, but they require removal from a large casting sprue, a lot of filing to clean up the attachment points and a lot of finicky filing to make the male flange of one half of the shallow diamond fit precisely into the female receptacle on the other side. The two pieces are sorta circular and sorta symmetric. Then the three pieces have to be sweat soldered together with a torch.

The details on Dave's printed part is far finer than the assembled brass stacks.  Mike is teaching me that backdating locomotives doesn't require being a "brass purist" . . .