Check out this wheel turning web page

[patyoung]

Hi,

While surfing the web, I came across this excellent
web page on wheel turning:

www.jghtech.com/html/wheel-turning-1.html

A unique operation (to me at least) that is shown is
that two cutting bits are used simultaneously to surface
the front and back of the wheels.

Enjoy,

Pat Y.

[Bill Holland]

Interesting indeed.

[jock]

I'm building a 2-10-0 Britisg 9F in 5"gauge, so I have twelve wheels onthe engine and six on the tender. A lot of wheels.
What I did was after cleaning off the flash from the castings was to paint the wheels by dipping then in the paint and then hardening in the oven before machining.
( she who must be obeyed was away ;D
I then left them for a week to completly harden.
This gave me a very clean paint edge when machining.
This is how a lot of chassis parts were done at Ford Motor Co where I did my apprentiship.