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- Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Just add WARMTH!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7513
Re: Just add WARMTH!
I will always take Barry's statement as offensive, if I can! There is "whomp" and there is WHOMP!!! Many years ago, when running my 1/2 scale traction engine at a local show, lunch time rolled around and I needed to go to the cook shack for my vittles so I dropped the draft door on the bab...
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:54 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Just add WARMTH!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7513
Re: Just add WARMTH!
Thanks. I've always thought they put out enough heat without the roar of some methods. That is one of the things I like most about them! They are so quiet when running that you can't hear them. The only drawback is that they take a fair amount of blower to keep the boiler drafting properly. They al...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Just add WARMTH!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7513
Re: Just add WARMTH!
Hi Dianne, I was looking at your web page and was wondering if you'd describe your propane burner a little more? Is that a plate burner like other Manitoba folks have in their engines? Yup, same idea. It is two brass plates with clusters of small gas holes around each "air tube" which pas...
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:19 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Just add WARMTH!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7513
Just add WARMTH!
Been a busy winter in the shop, getting ready for the 80th season of Manitoba Live Steamers & Model Engineers! Made changes to the propane burner to get more BTU - should be 20% more and hopefully that will keep steam up at speed - well "speed" for a little American! Completely rebuild...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 3:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
Re: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
Chemistry wasn't my strong suit in college. Actually college wasn't my strong suit either ......Kimball McGinley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:22 amThe reason heated vinegar worked so much better can be attributed to van’t Hoff’s rule........
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:40 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
Re: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
PROBLEM SOLVED! I was able to free up two of the three tri cocks by soaking in vinegar for a few hours and carefully working the handles back and forth a little at a time and working some oil in until they had full travel back. The third one would not budge! :( I boiled it in vinegar for a couple o...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:41 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:16 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:00 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8261
3/16-32 Tri Cocks?
My LE American uses 3/16-32 tri cocks that are in bad shape and I was looking for three new ones. 3/16-32 was a ME "standard" back in the day but can't find them now.
Has anybody seen 3/16-32 test cocks?
Has anybody seen 3/16-32 test cocks?
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:41 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Inexpensive 7.5" trucks?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12411
Re: Inexpensive 7.5" trucks?
I have been kicking around the idea of doing wood beam trucks with Adirondack Foundry and doing "period correct" trucks REALLY appeals to me!
I'll let you know how it goes.
I'll let you know how it goes.
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:35 am
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Inexpensive 7.5" trucks?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12411
Inexpensive 7.5" trucks?
I'd like to build a couple of boxcars for my 1-1/2" scale American and I'd like to stay with the Civil War era. Being retired and on a meagre pension, $$ is always a consideration so the more I can make from "stock material", the better. I am thinking arch bar trucks with flat iron fo...