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Nothing but my highest respect to Barry as an outstanding model engineer! There was now chance to meet him personally, which I regret deeply. Those injectors of his production are outstanding - no other things ever worked like his. Thus a Nathan will feed reliably my A 1239 still under construction,...

Hello friends, Some more work was done on the boiler jacket. Made of 1 mm stainless steel, the jacket was adapted to the lengths of the different boiler courses. Several parts were made conical and divided into two halfs. All were rolled from sheets first, longer than needed to achieve constant diam...

Hello Paul,
Congratulations! Your cab looks like a 'home cabin', ready to run! Just in time as a big christmas present.
Best luck to you and your engine!
Asteamhead

Hello friends,
Some steaming of the back engine on a simple brake stand, fed by a separate boiler - all just for fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc6yUp463CM



Asteamhead

Hello David, Your bends are looking perfect! Please make sure your superheaters end about 2 " in front of the firebox tube sheet (whatever you may receive as different recommendations). To beware the ends of direct flames will ensure a long life time of more than 10 years - without any severe r...

Hello Peter, Maybe some photos and scetches may help you? I decided to make two identical patterns which were put back to back in the foundry to form just one. The inner sides will be connected to a frame made of lasered parts. Seemed to me the most easy way. As an advantage each casting with just o...

Hello Peter, Sorry for I'm constructing in scale 1 in 10! Would be much easier to exchange parts and patterns in case of using the same scale which is common in the US - to me, too. Thus I built new patterns of my own, for there wasn't any similar on the market. The patterns were made by means of Ra...

Hello, Some new items have been delivered to me just recently. The parts for use with the tender T95 trucks were sand casted of bronze. All those parts for the 4 trucks needed for both my A and steamchris' J are weighing in some 90 pounds. But milling them into the final dimensions will reduce their...

Thank you all for your kind replies! Look, my inspiration is to build a model of one of the finest steam locomotives ever constructed - and make it look and perform like the prototype as far as possible to me. And I'm glad about that kind recognition of the right people, who know all about our hobby...

Hi Builder01, The Hairpin style Asteamhead shows you is the way to go. Use several superheater tubes in your assembly so that the residence time for the steam is longer giving more time for effective heat transfer. As Bill Shields says, most superheater assemblies are probably working as steam drie...

Hello Builder01, Maybe some photos may help clearing things. This method to construct superheaters for model locomotives had been suggested by the late friend of mine Peter Weinrich (RIP!). Back in the 70s he had been an early professional TIG welder who hd a lot of expertise regarding welding any s...

Some more fotos of the back engine
Asteamhead