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Title: smoke stack adapter
Post by: spla13 on April 16, 2008, 05:34:44 PM
helo curmudgeon, you spoke of a smoke stack adapter some time ago. i would like to know if there is one that will allow one to fit a shay spark arrester type stack to fit in a k-27? (the stack with the opening screen at the top) i know this is not correct but it looks great. thank you. bob.
Title: Re: smoke stack adapter
Post by: Steve Stockham on April 16, 2008, 06:29:41 PM
The barrel of the stacks are not even close to being the same diameter. If you want one to fit a K-27 I'm afraid that you will have to scratch build the base. This is the "adaptor" that TOC was referring to I believe. The opening in the K-27 is going to be too large for the Shay's base to cover. (You might be able to add a strip of styrene to the bottom to make it large enough though.) The stack style you are referring to is the Ely/Thomas stack. Depending upon whether you can get one from a 36 ton version or a 38 ton will determine whether you will need the entire stack or just the base to be modified (there were different versions.) Hope this helps.
Title: Re: smoke stack adapter
Post by: Jon D. Miller on April 17, 2008, 12:45:46 AM
Steve is correct. The spark arrestor stack you refer to will not even come close to fitting the K-27. 

The stack you describe is known properly as a Lima Diamond stack.  It may have been installed on the Ely-Thomas Shay but that doesn't make it a Ely-Thomas stack.

For example, the Bachmann item number 82498, painted unlettered, fifty-five ton three truck Shay came with four stacks.  Those stacks were the straight stack, Hunter-Radley, Ruston, and Lima Diamond.  So, you had a choice of installing any of the four stacks.

(http://www.largescaleonline.com/eimages/lsolpics/Team_Member_Pics/jlsrails/Steam_Locomotives/Steam_Locomotive/100_4101.jpg)

This is the Lima Diamond stack.  The little round object to the left of the stack is the base in question.  This base was supplied/used on the Hundter-Radley and Lima Diamond stacks that came with the 55 ton Shay.

Good luck is trying to adapt a Lima Diamond to a K-27.  I'll say one thing, if you pull it off the K-27 will certainly have a "different" look! ::)

JD
Title: Re: smoke stack adapter
Post by: Steve Stockham on April 17, 2008, 07:27:05 AM
Thanks Jon, I completely spaced the name of the stack! I have seen a Bachmann 10-Wheeler with a Lima Diamond stack in a picture that was sent into Garden Railways a couple of years ago. Jon's right in that it definitely gives the engine a 'different" look! ;)