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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Mercer butterfly door kit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 969
Re: Mercer butterfly door kit
Nice job
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 519
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
good plan.....
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2656
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
GM 6V-71 diesel - had one where I worked first out of college on an unmanned barge, driving a water pump. ran a VERY WET STACK most of the time since it idled running only an air compressor..only used the pump 10% of the time. when we loaded it up with the pump and ran it hard for an hour -> would s...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 519
Re: Double Flaring on Copper Tubing
so the pressure on the gas feed to the Corvair carbs was so severe as to require a double flare. ?Comstock-Friend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:00 pm I used to do the double flare on the steel gas lines going to the four single barrels on my '65 Corvair Corsa. Single flare leaked.
John
cool....musta been a really quick Corvair
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Stuart Turner 5a Build
- Replies: 55
- Views: 252543
Re: Stuart Turner 5a Build
Ditto on the nice.
I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.
The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.
I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.
The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: cleaning burner nozzles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 170
Re: cleaning burner nozzles
A bit better description or a photo would help.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: LE 1 inch scale 060 Rebuild
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10505
Re: LE 1 inch scale 060 Rebuild
careful...you may loosen up dirt and have it float into the bearing areas.....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2656
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
THAT'S cool....
we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....
so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....
we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....
so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: tractor engine top end rebuild
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2656
Re: tractor engine top end rebuild
i have seen gear driven pumps that had internal shaft leaks that would dump hyd oil out the drive shaft and down into....wherever...
combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....
or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....
combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....
or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2692
Re: fuel topic
GIGGLE....and coal with Sulphur is not acidic?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2692
Re: fuel topic
is what I remember steve doing - although it had troughs in it to increase the surface area....
seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....
didn't smell like a popcorn engine though
seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....
didn't smell like a popcorn engine though
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: fuel topic
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2692
Re: fuel topic
I have seen Steve Bratina running a loco on it maybe 20 years ago....??
required a very funky looking grate IIRC
required a very funky looking grate IIRC