The Home Machinist!

There is a good chance is the 611 is in Spencer for the spring. the museum may do a hands on throttle like they did last summer. I will let all know as I find out more on the 611s future Michael

Chris, PMs sent, Michael

Hello Chris, The 611 is in Spenser N.C currently for winter maintenance.

Boiler stays are serious business. The only welding on a full scale boiler is only allowed on a stayed area or flue sheet. The stays carry any weakness in the side sheets or crown sheet. Harold was correct in his calculations of the forces on the firebox side sheets. These forces are spread out by t...

Perhaps member Steamchris (on this forum) could help with your question. He has built a Y6b version of this locomotive.

For those interested, I have many prints for the Y6, A and the J class. I copied them from the Birmingham steam shops before the shops were closed.

Being a person in business, I will not delude myself into thinking its a breeze. I will be happy to discuss business with anyone. BUT, let's not forget what all this discussion started out being. There is an old gentleman wanting to carry on his career in his retirement. He has gotten carried away a...

Free Market...... I will tell both sides of this story.. All now know, I own a business. In my business, I have offered my products that have been copied. This is very upsetting, but it happened. I once had a competitor speak with me with a friendly manner. I told him some ideas I wanted to try in m...

Free Market....I own a business and understand the free market in my business. I provide a service for my customers. In our hobby we are the customers. We have venders that supply products we use in our hobby. We as customers want the best products for our hobby. We create demand and our venders sup...

Mine is stored in my dining room! It is big and gets allot of WOWs! My boiler will long out last me.

So are you still fishing for information to sell????? This is for personal gain and not to benefit construction of a locomotive. Mike sells me plans because I am a customer of his castings.

This topic is well exhausted but the code is the code. The small thinking inspector stated, " what a person builds for their use use is their option. When a boiler is operated in public the code stands."

Folks , I have no experience with stainless boilers except one. A boiler inspector in the state of VA. told me he would never pass a boiler that he would inspect made of stainless.