Finally Here

[Tom O]

Nice I’d say fix up the mechanical things first then do the boiler at least the parts are already made. Blondihacks has a couple vids on making a boiler.

 

[Susquatch]

@Ishmael - The boiler and pressure vessel code is not secret. A proof test with water in a water bath is also quite doable. Push come to shove, one could bury a proper tank inside a cosmetic tank.......

 

[Ishmael]

The boiler and pressure vessel code is not secret. A proof test with water in a water bath is also quite doable. Push come to shove, one could bury a proper tank inside a cosmetic tank.......

I know about that. In fact, I did it once, installing a silver-soldered copper boiler inside a steel pipe shell (see photos).
In this case, though, I think I'll just keep the original.

 

[140mower]

.....yup, yer fitttin' in just fine around here.......

 

[Ishmael]

.....yup, yer fitttin' in just fine around here.......

Thanks. I need the encouragement.

 

[CWret]

Though I don't think that I can contribute much of value to this forum

I very much disagree - after having a look at your model steam engine interests and projects - I believe you have lots to offer and contribute.

Welcome to the Forum

 

[ChazzC]

Then there is the topic creep. You never know where a simple discussion about colour or temperature or timing will lead.

Oh, God, don't encourage him!

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Yes, it does.

Here's what it looked like at the garage sale where I found it.

I have since added the clear plastic pulley guard, as all those RPMs scare me....

Oh I love that yours came with a dial indicator already.

When I posted mine people asked what was with the top mount, but I didn't have a dial indicator to add to mine when I took some pics of it for posting.

Nice collection of tiny drill bits too.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Thanks. I need the encouragement.

Atta boy.

BTW did you go to Queens?

 

[Larry_C9]

Welcome from the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island

 

[Ishmael]

BTW did you go to Queens?

I suspect that you did.
I was there, too, but a long time ago....

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I suspect that you did.
I was there, too, but a long time ago....

Alas I did not attend Queens, but I do know the Queen's Engineering motto.

And the University Motto, and regret society is straying further and further from it

 

[whydontu]

Now I had to look up the mottos. Both good.

 

[BaitMaster]

Welcome from a fellow bungler and ubiquitous offshore 4x6 bandsaw owner from southern AB.

Your models look too good for you to have nothing to contribute.

If you don’t know what to talk about, just ask a question about lathe levelling or VFD’s….. that should get a conversation going real fast.

 

[Ishmael]

Your models look too good for you to have nothing to contribute.

What you call "your models" are really not mine. The locomotive is something that someone else built and that I am trying to refurbish, and my contribution to the traction engine consists of making a new boiler and replacing all of the parts pertaining to the throttle, governor, piping, etc. of the engine (all of the neat chassis, wheels, engine, gearing, and so forth were constructed by someone who was a far better machinist than whoever made the boiler and its controls), so all I did was undo some mistakes.

Thanks anyway for the compliment.

 

[Susquatch]

What you call "your models" are really not mine.

OK, now we KNOW you belong! Most of spend most of our time fixing mistakes - sometimes our own.....

 

[Ishmael]

OK, now we KNOW you belong! Most of spend most of our time fixing mistakes - sometimes our own.....

Just to keep the record straight, I have actually made some models of my own. They're just not elaborate, polished productions. Examples are attached.