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  DWThomas

• Jul 12, 2016

Yum!! Good stuff.

 

• HiHoSilver

• Jul 13, 2016

The bronze bearings just didn't look distinct in mono, though I'll have those in a week or so. Thx. DWT.

 

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  Roger Thoms

• Jul 13, 2016

Nice image, really spent so time looking at the image. The bronze bushings are nice but I really like the connecting rods.

Roger

 

• HiHoSilver

• Jul 13, 2016

Me too, Roger. 'Hard to get all the texture & detail on them and the feel for their massive size in a single image - but I don't tire of trying.

 

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  RudyMerz

• Jul 14, 2016

Yuck. Greasy stuff. Great photo.

 

• HiHoSilver

• Jul 14, 2016

Thank you, Rudy. Its a dirty job, but someone's gotta shoot it.

 

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  michaelorr

• Jul 14, 2016

So much better in color than it would have come out in bw, in my opinion - and i don't really like color photographs that much usually. And brass, which is why this is so important in color, is a magical alloy. Surprising, though, is that brass even being an alloy is still so soft that the rubbing does wear it down rather quickly when used as a bearing. Don't really get how this all works, but the photograph is just terrific stuff. Keep the metalwork coming HiHo, nice stuff you are putting in gallery, whether it is heavy metal or muscle mounts.

 

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  DWThomas

• Jul 15, 2016

I believe the brassy stuff is actually bronze; a much tougher material. Plus most of those later locomotives had some sort of fancier lubrication than running around with an oil can!

 

• HiHoSilver

• Jul 15, 2016

'Not that knowledgeable, DWT, but I think you're right. 'No idea what makes tin/copper so much harder than zinc/copper. 'Still strikes me that w/ all the wonderful stuff we discover - I suspect we forget more that we used to know about such things.

 

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  michaelorr

• Jul 15, 2016

Ah, that makes more sense, Dave, thanks.