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- Wed May 10, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: steam line insulation ideas?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7197
Re: steam line insulation ideas?
And white is the color of asbestos… Or magnesium. You can never tell for certain if a substance is asbestos or something else. The nearest thing to certainty is 9"x9" floor tile and the mastic its put down with. The most frightening at first sight boiler room I was ever in was an unimprov...
- Fri May 05, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Propane Burner options
- Replies: 71
- Views: 12551
Re: Propane Burner options
Thanks all, this has been a very interesting thread so far, lots of useful information on the ever-evolving black art of burners. A question I have is, could this design be reduced in size, and proportion, for use in smaller scales or smaller fireboxes? A reduction would no doubt involve some experi...
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Gauging interest... Copper Tube
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4124
Re: Gauging interest... Copper Tube
I don't know which came first the Chicken (the mills) or the Egg (mech engineers), but some point years ago (as FK says above) while it remained a "standard" size, 5" was discontinued as a "stock" item. (You need 20k linear feet? No problem.) I don't know whether the mills l...
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Superheated or Saturated?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6736
Re: Superheated or Saturated?
And this should bring on an entirely new thread of opinions . . . throttle in front of the superheater (saturated side), or throttle beyond the superheater (dry side)?
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Identification
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3334
Re: Identification
Bartholomew's original version was intended to model a Tennessee Central Rwy locomotive which he said ran through where he grew up. This was the first live steam locomotive I was able to watch being built.
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Identification
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3334
Re: Identification
Someone just liked red! LOL!
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:19 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Identification
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3334
Re: Identification
Google is a great thing . . . if you know where to look. The Tuscan red cab roof (if it wasn't painted red just because someone liked red), is a dead giveaway for a Great Northern Rwy locomotive, as are several other details. This photo is of a Great Northern Class E-14, built by Baldwin 1909, with ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:47 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Propane Burner options
- Replies: 71
- Views: 12551
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:16 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Propane Burner options
- Replies: 71
- Views: 12551
Re: Propane Burner options
Perfect ~ thanks Russ.
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:42 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Propane Burner options
- Replies: 71
- Views: 12551
Re: Propane Burner options
Chris,
Is there any design information available for Von Ruben burners?
Is there any design information available for Von Ruben burners?
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Progress on the 3/4" scale 0-8-0 switcher
- Replies: 72
- Views: 34830
Re: Progress on the 3/4" scale 0-8-0 switcher
Neatly done.
Are those "Tufnol" spring leaves?
Are those "Tufnol" spring leaves?
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: A good reliable injector for inch & half scale that works ????
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8362
Re: A good reliable injector for inch & half scale that works ????
That's a home-made job if I ever saw one.