The Home Machinist!

Here is the final burner, ready to go nellie burner 6.jpg nellie burner 7.jpg the bottom 'plate' is pushed up against the mud ring, sealed by furnace gasket to keep out unnecessary air. Using 'pins' that normally hold the ash pan in place, a series of compression springs push 'up' to compress the ga...

I took steve's drawings and built a burner from stuff i had around the shop. 3/4" square stainless tubing and some sheet to make the plate and arch. holes for air and combustion mixture were based on his recommendations and a lot of experience on my part with other burners nellie burner 1.jpg n...

burner in steves maisie.png This is a picture of one of Steve's application of the burner in a Maisie. and a picture of my first test in the 1" loco burner test 1 small.jpg yes, that is a plexiglass cover on the tank so that I can see the level. the flame in the firebox, running on a test stan...

based on request, here is a series on a methanol burner for small scale - and according to the original designer - any scale of loco. Steve Bratina, a fellow small scale live steamer, has been converting most (if not all by now) of his locos to this burner. this design is entirely his -> i take ZERO...

Only thing in my shop with a date is the 4'x8' piece of 1/4" brass plate that has a freight date on it. Otherwise I do not want to remember how many decades some of this stuff has been sitting around. Some of the stuff goes back to my first loco in the 1970s that "I will save for later, mi...

Sure . Just hire a rigger and a truck. It's a FREE MILL.

I would love to have it also, but would need to build a shop to hold it -> or get my wife to give up her dance room

What ..do you put dates on bar stock?

get to a local club and make your case.

if people don't fall all over themselves to help you -> find another club!!!!!

you will get all the assistance you need, first hand, face to face, hand on loco -> which is the only way to do it.

there you go => problem solved.

much slicker than my 'turret' that mounts in the tailstock quill.....

you may want to look at how South Bend Shapers handled the linkage. I seem to remember it was a lot simpler than the Atlas -> and may lend itself more to 'home brew'. I think that I could make a reversible ratchet and adjustable linkage a lot easier than going through mounting a stepper motor and as...

interesting, since the welsh supplier is now completely out of the digging business. most of the heritage railways in the UK hated the Polish coal...because of what you just described. the firemen that I know called it Polish Black S**t, but had to run it and were always fighting clinkers and slate....

How they smell -> kinda depends on what they have been eating...