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- Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:28 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Mid South meet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5633
Re: Mid South meet
the meet was really small this year but we all had a good time. several posters from this group were there. attached is our buddy Jesse running in the crisp morning air. what a great shot. Fred V Fred, et al, We had 16 steam locos and 26 diesel pattern locos running which is unusually low for our m...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: New Project!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14765
Patrik, I machined my first Stuart-Turner V-10 about 30 years ago and followed that one with a #9 mill engine. Neither of these casting sets had hard spots nor did I have any carbide tooling, used HHS for everthing. Sometimes the extreme outer surface of cast iron may have hard places caused by sand...
- Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:28 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Cast Iron vs. Steel drivers
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15817
Boiler for Cli-Shay
Back up there a ways, mention was made of the advisibility of building a fire tube boiler for the Cli-Shay and I personally think that would be a big advantage in runnability and steaming. The Bill Conner design of boiler as used on his Beam Locomotives is water leg fire tube design and is a proven ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:27 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: ''Corliss'' horizontal single cylinder model engine.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8952
Corliss
Here is a beautimus Corliss that was built by Keith Spriggs of Cherokee, Kansas a couple of years ago. Before you downrate his workmanship, let me say that this is only the SECOND live steam model Keith has built. Check out the platform at the top of the stairs. It is composed of scale thickness iro...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:12 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Pressure regulator plans?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18020
On three of my locos, I use straight steam from the brake valve (homemade) to the brake cylinders. The cylinders have a very small hole at their lowest point that keeps water from filling the cylinder or lines.. This has worked very well for me and as Bill Shields has pointed out, your engine is not...
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:51 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Pressure gauge plumbing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10584
steam gauges
All of my pressure gauges are connected to the turret/manifold, (also called a "steam stand" back in the late 1800s). I have a 1/8" pipe nipple from top of boiler to turret and have never had any problems with gauge not reading almost the same all of the time. I am sure it drops a wee...
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:54 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: scale pipe
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5442
wrenches
wagginspack, I made my own 1-1/2" scale 18" Rigid pattern pipe wrench and have used it on all five of my locomotives. Trainman is right, the real stuff had pipe wrench marks on the fittings. With our small brass pipe, we do not have to tighten enough most of the time to cause serious wrenc...
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:20 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: The Gage Glass
- Replies: 85
- Views: 44298
- Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:56 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Reynolds-Allis Corliss update
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8128
Steam transport
One could always build a steam powered tricycle like the one I saw photos of on ebay a while back. According to the builder/owner it runs for free if you have a plentiful supply of dried horse muffins for fuel. One could of course use coal or propane, but the muffins can usually be found for just th...
- Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:52 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: I NEED A MAN!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9100
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: The Steaming bay board
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3624
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:00 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: I NEED A MAN!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9100
Ronald, can you maybe not take one of these super hero types and trim away their cape or other useless appurtances and then do a creative bit of painting to get him into overalls or coveralls. Whittle out a railroady looking cap to put on his noggin and your nice looking turntable shack will have it...