The Home Machinist!

Hi, your superheater coil is far too short to be really effective. A pancake style coil with about 1/8 th of an inch space between turns virtually covering all the tubes with about 3/8 inch space between it and theinside edge of the boiler barrel would do much more, and would act as a baffle somewh...

While turbulators may well help I reckon a better use of the heat lost would be to add a superheater. A simple pancake coil in the smokebox would catch a lot of heat and liven up the engine performance. The only downside would be that you MUST have a mechanical lubricator to ensure proper lubricati...

Had the same problem with my Tom Thumb when converting to run on propane for the 2018 Triennial. Solved the problem by placing the metal baffle back on top of the tubes to restrict the path of air flow (I would also recommend this plate for running on coal as well). Below is the answer to a similar ...

John, PM sent. That's awesome you want to continue your Dad's legacy with the locomotive to get it running.

Link to the other thread noted above: viewtopic.php?t=82897

Boilersaver has the LSB 8000. Website is below. One of the owners is "steveleatherman" here on Chaski.

https://www.boilersaver.com/contact.html

As others have noted, the search function within Chaski can be overwhelming and will provide too much data. Using Google and adding "chaski" to the first part of the search results in far better success to find results. Getting back on topic, there have been topics related to this in the p...

There is no evidence the steam hobby is dying. In fact there is ample evidence the steam hobby is the biggest it has ever been. The fact is, there are more miniature steam engines in existent now than there has ever been. The amount of steam engines that are being built new or being refurbished far ...

You should mention if you are using aluminum rail vs steel as that does make a difference. You don't need to slot the rails if you are using slotted jointers. For steel rail, a standard loose clearance hole for the hardware you are using would suffice. If you are using aluminum rail, good idea would...

Accu-Tie sells a rail bender. The pictures and video in the link below would provide enough guidance to allow someone to create their own.

https://accu-tierailsystem.com/product/rail-bender/

Rich, email sent over.

Hello Mr LaFavor, are you the man who bought from the lady in Georgia the decal/lettering business? I got the lettering that I have on my tender from her, she was very helpful to work with, my paint scheme is flat black and white, silver smoke box . Thank you for all the information that all have g...