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Over the course of 50 years, Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading has reached readers in all parts of the U.S. and the world, bringing people together who may otherwise never connect -- to share the fascinating history of steam technology and to build a great store of knowledge upon which all newcomers may draw. We hope, each issue will be the handiest tool in your home shop. Subscribe Today!


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Your subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best live stream and outdoor railroading articles ever produced during your active subscription term. Subscription does not include printed issues.


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If you know a live steam enthusiast then Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading is for them.  For 50 years, we have reached readers worldwide, bringing people together to share the fascinating history of steam technology and to build a great store of knowledge upon which all newcomers may draw.  It's a gift that gives all year long. 


Subscription includes digital access to the current issue PLUS free access to literally hundreds of the very best machining articles ever produced. 
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FoR 16mm Parting Tool Combo

				

				

					FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with  blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 16mm Diamond Toolholder. 
  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces  chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground. 
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FoR 20mm Parting Tool Combo

				

				

					FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with  blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 20mm Diamond Toolholder. 
  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces  chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground. 
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FoR 8mm Parting Tool Combo

				

				

					FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with  blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 8mm Diamond Toolholder. 
  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces  chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground. 
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FoR 9.5mm Parting Tool Combo

				

				

					FoR (Front or Rear) Inverted Parting Toolholder includes a fine, high-strength Crobalt parting tool. Operates with  blade held upside down. Use in front or rear tool post. Model specifically set for tool posts on 9.5mm Diamond Toolholder. 
  • Inverted blade design significantly reduces  chance of jam-up and blade breakage
  • Minimal side overhang and no front overhang help maximize rigidity
  • Cutting takes place on underside. Swarf tends to fall out of groove rather than pile up on top of cutting edge
  • Lack of swarf on top of blade means coolant is free to get right in to cutting edge
  • Horizontal mounting of blade further reduces chance of blade pulling itself into cut and is especially advantageous when turning brass and bronze.
  • Simple to resharpen--only front face has to be ground. 
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Rudy's Book Set 

				

				

					Buy the set of three and save!  284 pages of Rudy's plan sets from the past.  Please refer to individual book ad for specific projects in each book.
Rudy's Fun With Engines and Other Things
Rudy's Model Stirlings Engines
Rudy's Working Steam Engines				

				
				

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Steam & Stirling Set

				

				

					Get all four Steam & Stirling books at a discounted price!  Flex your metalworking skills on such engine projects as a no-casting 1.5 x 1.5V steam engine, a walking-beam Stirling-cycle mill engine, an epicyclic steam engine, and seventeen more -- and enjoy two bonus sections that offer hobby-expanding related topics. Please refer to the individual book ad for number of pages and further details; all are hardbound.
Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4				

				
				

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Building the Rio Grande K-27 Volume 2

				

				

					By Kozo Hiraoka
				

				

					
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Volume 2 will conclude the building of Kozo Hiraoka?s K-27, and also covers tools, transporting the model, and tips on operation. This book, longer than the first volume, contains a large supplementary section that includes many previously unpublished drawings and new text that describes the engineering that goes into designing a successful live steam locomotive.




				

				
				

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Building the Rio Grande K-27 Volume 1

				

				

					By Kozo Hiraoka
				

				

					Over 400 pages chock-full of drawings, color photos and detailed text. Hardcover book is based on long-running serial in Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading magazine, but layout is all-new with foldouts for larger drawings. Features material not included in magazine articles. Volume 1 contains first 27 chapters. Volume 2 to be released after serial concludes in magazine.

				

				
				

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Kozo's Building the New Shay

				

				

					By Kozo Hiraoka
				

				

					
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1920s prototype locomotive engineering in 3/4" scale (with instructions for scaling up to 1-1/2"). Fifth in a fabulous series.
Hardbound. 275 pages.


				

				
				

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Shop Made Tools 2013

				

				

					If you've ever spent time with an experienced machinist, you no doubt had "Why didn't I think of that?" moments.  Years of machining result in an arsenal of tricks and tools, but why wait? With over 100 entries from a number of authors, Shop Made Tools 2013 has something your shop needs, whatever your level of expertise! Compiled from popular thread on The Home Shop Machinist and Machinist's Workshop bulletin board, it contains entries featuring items for lathe and mill, work holding, and more.  64 pages.				

				
				

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Shop Made Tools 2015

				

				

					If you've spent time with an experienced machinist you no doubt had "Why didn't I think of that?" moments. Years of machining result in an arsenal of tricks and tools, but why wait? With over 100 entries from over 50 different authors, this second edition of Shop Made Tools 2015 has something your shop needs, whatever your level of expertise! A fresh set compiled from popular thread on The Home Shop Machinist and Machinist's Workshop bulletin board. Book features items for lathe and mill, work holding, and more. 64 pages.				

				
				

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The Complete Mini-Lathe Workshop

				

				

					By Ted Hansen
				

				

					
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Turn your mini-lathe into a workhorse, with dozens of improvements and projects designed to broaden its capabilities. In this must-have, 132 page, spiral-bound book, we've assembled and updated material from "Additions and Modifications to Mini-Lathe" column in The Home Shop Machinist magazine. With projects only requiring a drill press and lathe, you don't need to complete an entire shop to get started.				

				
				

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Rudy's Working Steam Engines - Plan Sets from the Past

				

				

					By Rudy Kouhoupt
				

				

					Plans for six steam engines of industry. Build a walking beam engine, model marine engine, open column steam engine, model mill engine, enclosed crank steam engine and model horizontal steam engine.
Spiralbound. 104 pages.
Best Value: Rudy's 3 Plans Set				

				
				

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The Machinist's Second Bedside Reader 

				

				

					By Guy Lautard
				

				

					The Machinist's Second Bedside Reader takes up where basic texts on machine shop practice leave off. It tells you, in a comfortable, easy-reading style, many old and obscure tricks of the trade; helps you get things done better, faster, and easier in your shop; shows you how to make a number of useful shop tools, and introduces you to areas of metalworking you many never have thought of before.
 Like the first book, the Second Bedside Reader is filled with more hints, tips, and projects. It contains full plans for:
  •  an elegant between-centers boring bar
  • a poor man's jig borer
  • an overhead drive for your milling spindle
  • a toolpost fixture for rounding the ends of small parts
  • a fixture for cutting multiple-start threads
  • a simple shop-made sine bar and sine fixture for your milling machine
  • ..... and much more!

     Also included in full is "The Bullseye Mixture," Guy's story about precision metalworking, rifle making, friendship, and the recipe for case hardening that may not be the only Bullseye Mixture in life.
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Marvelous Magnetic Machines

				

				

					You're standing in front of an old card table in a driveway at a garage sale. On that table is a one-quart aluminum saucepan, a votive candle holder, pieces of some office machinery and a wooden awards plaque. What do you see here? If you did not answer "a six-cylinder radial electromagnetic attraction motor," then you need this book! H.P. Friedrichs (author of The Voice of the Crystal and Instruments of Amplification) returns this time to explore the principles behind the operation and construction of five simple, yet impressive, model electric motors 
Hardcover, 160 pages, 177 photos and illustrations.				

				
				

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MetalCasting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry Vol. 1

				

				

					By Stephen Chastain
				

				

					
Learn how to cast metal in sand molds using simple techniques and readily available materials. Steve Chastain, a Mechanical and Materials engineer, shows the beginner how to make a sand mold and then how to hone your skills to produce high quality castings.
				

				
				

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