Dave: Are you willing to mortise out the rail and glue up a new piece of wood, the re-drill? You'd have to make a very precise template of the keypin positions indexed to the frame. It's not all that difficult if you have the right tools, but the definition of "major operation" varies with experience and tooling. Paul In a message dated 3/16/2010 2:47:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, dporritt at mail.smu.edu writes: I’m rebuilding a Baldwin R and on removing the corroded and pitted key pins, I discovered that the base of the guide rail pins are 0.177”. The top (swaged) part is a standard 0.146” but the part that is driven in the key frame is oversized. Of course no one has replacement pins like this so I’m going to have to make some modifications. Everything that I’ve thought of so far has looked like a major operation, and will leave lots of opportunity for errors. Has anyone run into this before? What did you do? dave _________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT 3024 County Road 2134 Caddo Mills, TX 75135 _dporritt at smu.edu_ (mailto:dporritt at smu.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100316/96525c51/attachment.htm>
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