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- Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Connor 4+4 Beam Engine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7949
Re: Connor 4+4 Beam Engine
We have a brand new Connor at GGLS. It looks pretty good and ran fine on its first outing a couple weeks ago. It looked to me like a fairly easy loco to build but YMMV depending on your experience. The owner is an MD with no machining experience and little time so it took awhile before it came for i...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:33 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Boiler Water Gauge Replumbing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4221
Re: Boiler Water Gauge Replumbing
My solution for the Locoparts problem at the time it was a problem is at https://www.goldengatels.org/library/te ... icles.html Go to the last article for the drawing.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Tubes...leaking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 36144
Re: Tubes...leaking
sodium silicate. McMaster-Carr has it. You have to remove all the valves and such before you use it since it will clog up everything. You mix about a cup of sodium silicate with water and put it in the boiler. then when everything is sealed up, you put a little air pressure on it, like 5 psig. When ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:28 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Smokebox Length Ratio
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16522
Re: Smokebox Length Ratio
My guess would be they had to accommodate particulate screens to try to get the smoke particles from being blown out the stack. I can't think of any thing else that would be large enough to require more space besides that and the aforementioned feedwater heater.
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Tubes...leaking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 36144
Re: Tubes...leaking
You have to give us some more details. Is this a copper or steel boiler? What are the tubes made of and what ID/OD? How are the tubes held in the boiler - rolled, welded, brazed? How many tubes? If you want to repair the boiler, assuming it can be done, you will have to take it off the chassis so yo...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:48 pm
- Forum: Casting & Foundry Work
- Topic: Alloy of brass and zink in a home foundry
- Replies: 17
- Views: 30187
Re: Alloy of brass and zink in a home foundry
I had a couple of those yesterday. I was pouring brass and got it way too hot. Opened the lid and.... it's really bright.
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:04 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Sliding shafts on trucks
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9422
Re: Sliding shafts on trucks
What sort of diameter of spline and socket are you needing?
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- Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:21 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Dome Patterns
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16727
Re: Dome Patterns
Even easier is to use lost foam casting. There are lots of instructions on how to do this on the internet.
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Help identifying photos
- Replies: 54
- Views: 39287
Re: Help identifying photos
Here is a picture of Dick Lane I took at Pioneer Valley in 1977.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Water pressure gauge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3678
Re: Water pressure gauge
I agree but be sure the highest value can stand the pulsating unless your cross head pump has an air chamber or something to even out the pulses. The best range for a gauge should be about 50% higher than the boiler running pressure just as the steam pressure gauge should be. Gauges work best at abo...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:00 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Three Cylinder Examples?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7094
Re: Three Cylinder Examples?
My 3-cyl Schools Class locomotive has Walshaerts valve gear on all three cylinders. The center cylinder has an eccentric instead of a return crank which the outside cylinders have. It is a Henry Greenly and Earnest Steel design. There is a rather incomplete plans set for this engine in 7 1/4" g...
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:05 pm
- Forum: Casting & Foundry Work
- Topic: Alloy of brass and zink in a home foundry
- Replies: 17
- Views: 30187
Re: Alloy of brass and zink in a home foundry
Why would you want to add more Zinc to Brass? Brass is already an alloy of Copper and Zinc.