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- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:36 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Forming boiler sheets for three 3/4-in. scale Virginias
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6713
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:59 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Could I get help picking a set of reamers?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1385
Re: Could I get help picking a set of reamers?
Interesting results Steve, looks plenty accurate for a live steam locomotive!
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:53 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Tubes...leaking
- Replies: 71
- Views: 2107
Re: Tubes...leaking
What I think we might be seeing here is the tubes were originally welded to the tubesheet however as suggested above the weld did not properly penetrate. Over the years as the boiler was heated and cooled and the metal contracted and expanded the tubes/welds have basically pulled away from the tubes...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:18 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Tubes...leaking
- Replies: 71
- Views: 2107
Re: Tubes...leaking
Hard to tell but I had the same thought as Bill S. - it does appear that the firebox side of the tubes are welded.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:11 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: What do we have for pics and video of the Waushakum Norfolk street era?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1286
Re: What do we have for pics and video of the Waushakum Norfolk street era?
The members of WLS have plenty of pictures of the Norfolk street location. Are you a member of WLS? If not you should become one, live steam clubs need all of the support that they can get these days since it is expensive to maintain facilities and pay for insurance. Not a member, but when I get my...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:38 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: What do we have for pics and video of the Waushakum Norfolk street era?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1286
Re: What do we have for pics and video of the Waushakum Norfolk street era?
The members of WLS have plenty of pictures of the Norfolk street location.
Are you a member of WLS?
If not you should become one, live steam clubs need all of the support that they can get these days since it is expensive to maintain facilities and pay for insurance.
Are you a member of WLS?
If not you should become one, live steam clubs need all of the support that they can get these days since it is expensive to maintain facilities and pay for insurance.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:23 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Smokebox Length Ratio
- Replies: 13
- Views: 490
Re: Smokebox Length Ratio
Interesting discussions, some of these things I had not thought of. I had assumed it was something to do with grate area vs. smokebox area in order for these engines to draft correctly.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:04 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Smokebox Length Ratio
- Replies: 13
- Views: 490
Smokebox Length Ratio
I have noticed that some of the most modern steam locomotives built (such as the Reading T-1, FEF-3, Big Boy, etc.) all have long smokeboxes in relation to their boiler length, especially when you compare them to some Atlantics and earlier engines which seem to have very short smokeboxes. Can anyone...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:07 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Expansion link block
- Replies: 12
- Views: 553
Re: Expansion link block
You could always install a round "block" with bushing as you suggested and if it wears then you could swap it out for a traditional square one.
At some point all locomotives will wear in places and need some level of overhauling in the shops.
At some point all locomotives will wear in places and need some level of overhauling in the shops.
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:04 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Tubes...leaking
- Replies: 71
- Views: 2107
Re: Tubes...leaking
If the boiler is old and the tubes are weak from corrosion you can actually puncture right through them with a brush/rod.
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:50 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Argent Lumber 3 spot
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1042
Re: Argent Lumber 3 spot
Would it be possible to make a wooden form in multiple peices, with one "key peice" you can pull out and have the whole thing collapse in and come out in peices? If you had a couple of references, you could remove it for annealing and re-install. I havent done anything similar myself, but may be an...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:04 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 1/2'' scale drawings
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1232
Re: 1/2'' scale drawings
Excellent pattern work Jesse! Are the steam passages cored as well?