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Building the climax live steam loco by kozo hiraoka
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Subject Building the climax live steam loco by kozo hiraoka
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Building the Climax, by Kozo Hiraoka, published by Village Press, Traverse City, Mich., 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989. 8½ x 11 hardcover, 248 pages, ISBN 0-914104-13-6
Please note this book is new, not used, with a new dust jacket.
Kozo Hiraoka has now completed all three major geared locomotives in ¾†scale — first the Shay, then the Heisler and now the Climax — each first serialized in Live Steam magazine, and then compiled and re-edited in book form. Each has inspired readers to go on to build an engine on their own.
Few live steam modelers who have written for Live Steam magazine have had greater a impact on the hobby than Kozo. His clever and ingenious methods of design and fabrication have made it possible for even novice machinist / modelers to create engines that are beautiful, and that function with power and predictability. Even if the reader chooses not to build the Climax locomotive, there are wonderful lessons to be learned about machining, and approaches to simplifying a job in the shop.
With the Climax locomotive project, you can now fabricate every single part on your engine from raw stock, and not have to purchase any (potentially) expensive pre-made parts. There are no castings to fool with either, just clear and concise directions for making each part, simply and correctly, often from material you can pull right out of your scrap box. Kozo’s drawings and photographs provide you with firm stepping-stones to a complete, operating locomotive in ¾â€, 1â€, or 1½†scales. He even shows you how to create your own skew bevel gears and pressure gauge. Several proud builders of the Climax in a variety of scales have also contributed to this book so the reader will see what others can accomplish.
8. Crankshaft Frame Fabrication
16. Fire Door, Ashpan, and Grate
19. Boiler Jackets, Handrails and Bell
26. Painting and Carrying Case
27. Operation and Maintenance, First Steaming
* You Can Machine Skew Bevel Gears
* You Can Fabricate a Pressure Gauge
* Conversion Chart – MM to Inch
* We do NOT accept American Express.
* U.S. media (book rate) mail is $4.95.
* PLEASE NOTE that our experience over the past few holiday seasons has been that about one in five books took over four weeks to be delivered to states west of the Mississippi River. Please understand that we have NO control or influence over the how quickly or how slowly the Post Office delivers your book.
If you want to use media (book rate) mail please wait at least four weeks before you contact us to inquire about the whereabouts of your book. And note that all we’ll be able to tell you is the date we mailed it from the Post Office. We will NOT be able to tell you where the book is, or when the Post Office is going to deliver it.
Global Priority Mail is $18.00 to most countries. PLEASE NOTE - NOT ALL COUNTRIES !!!
Global Priority Mail to Canada is $12.00.
First Class International Mail to Canada is $8.35.
First Class International Mail to most other countries is usually more than Global Priority Mail or just a little bit less, so we no longer list it as an option.
Our experience in the past few years is that MAILING OVERSEAS HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT RISKIER AND MUCH, MUCH SLOWER. We have seen a handful of books take nearly two months to be delivered. Italy particularly seems to have problems: books we have mailed to Italy seem to always take at least three or four weeks. We’re sorry, but there is nothing we can do about the postal services of our respective countries.
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