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S1 may be right! The largest frame ever ... There are some historic photos of the last word regarding casted beds / cylinders here in Europe. Far below the CSC products in regard of complexity but still awesome yet. Much less precise casting - hard job of milling and boreing to achieve the needed di...

Hello Jim, Thank you so much for posting that very rare photo!! :wink: It's showing well the outstanding competition of GSC for that precise casting reducing the mechanical afterwork to a minimum. We had a projekt of just two prototypes of DB class 10 (3-cyl. Pacific type), built in late 1956 at cy ...

The blower must consume less steam than the boiler will produce additional by it's draft! This is from a very low initial preasure on. Otherwise you will experience difficulties to rise preasure again after a severe drop (by a shortage of steam). A solution which is adjustable in both cross section ...

Ed, Dick, Thank you for your informative replies! But look, getting any drawings wasn't my intention rather then asking for any historic photos or desriptions of that outstanding process of casting. I'm afraid there are no such documents elsewhere? There are some great vidios on youtube both histori...

Hello, Those locomotive and tender beds made exclusivly by genious GSC cy are documented in Locomotive Cyclopedia. Drawings of locomotive beds for many types of several RRs are available (as by the Norfolk&Western Historical Society f.e. (what a great luck for us modelers!). But, does anybody in...

Hello Jack,
Your recent brake valves are looking really fine! What a pitty I'm building my A 1239 in just 1 in 10 scale. Otherwise to order one would be a must!

All the best from
Asteamhead

Hello modellers, Maybe you got me wrong? Locomotive tires made of aluminium, no way of course! What I used was a high quality bronze common for ship srews (-propellers?). This was more due to our supplier's standards than our intention. It's a bronze which contains just a f e w p e r c e n t of alum...

Hello all, Agree to all which has been reported above! Best chose will be steel of medium grade on cast iron or else! Just some factors of adhesion which will be achieved by different materials for the rims: - Cast iron would be the worst with just 0.18 on dry rail - Improved Cast iron (we call this...

EOsteam,
Riviting ss rivets will mostly deform the (softer) parts which are to be connected.
Thus I prefer to just melting down the head down from the overlaping shaft by means of a TIG welder.
If you are acting fast you may forming the head (still warm then) by a tool. Very easy method!

Asteamhead

Hello Garry, when I scrolled all your impressive photos, there was the information regarding working preasure of your vessel (90 psi). My type of oil burner should get a nozel of 0.6 mm to 0.7 mm diameter (steam). A nozel of 1.6 mm diameter should be used for the fuel then. (The drawing is showing t...

Hello Geof,
Your engine ist just looking fine! No thought you were on your way so far yet. Please let us be informed about your further steps until the S 1 is steaming!

All the best from Asteamhead

Hello gamh44! Welcome in the club! What about constructing your S 1 for 5 " gauge but in scale 1 in 10 (as Steamchris and I do)? We promise a lot of enlarged size and punch in comparation to 1 " scale or 1 in 11.3! As a result there could be all the great four on the N&W (Y6b, A, J and...