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Title: Eye to Eye draw bar measurements?
Post by: JimJim on October 29, 2014, 12:28:30 PM
Hello All,
Does anyone know the eye to eye measurements of the following draw bars:
Title: Re: Eye to Eye draw bar measurements?
Post by: Irbricksceo on October 29, 2014, 04:45:57 PM
The Baldwin Modern 4-4-0 is 5/16" to the close hole and 7/16 to the far one.
Title: Re: Eye to Eye draw bar measurements?
Post by: Doneldon on October 30, 2014, 04:05:31 AM
2Jims-

This is very easy to measure. Are you having some problem with your drawbars?

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Title: Re: Eye to Eye draw bar measurements?
Post by: JimJim on October 30, 2014, 06:12:39 PM
Hello,
I'm converting my DCC USRA 0-4-0 with a Vanderbuilt tender to have pickups on the wheels of the tender to improve continuity at slow speeds over the insulated frogs.
To do this, rather than having a plug in the tender going to the decoder I'm going to hard wire the decoder to the pickups I'm installing on the tender.
Currently there is a "J" bar that connects the tender to the loco.
I'm going to convert the "J" bar to a draw bar. I am hoping that I can order one rather than having to fabricate one.
Looks like I'll have to fabricate one. The distance that I need to span is about 1-inch to maintain the current spacing of the loco and tender.
Thank you for your thoughts.