Midland
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Post by Midland on May 18, 2021 19:25:55 GMT
Hardly has the last adventure gone, well not yet actually, but a new little girl seduced me so I must introduce you to Molly. She is a bit bashful but will allow a picture soon once her boiler is tested ok. Hope you are all jealous as she is beautiful!!! Midland of course!
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Post by dscott on May 18, 2021 22:28:54 GMT
You as well?
And here am I sneaking down to Kent to meet someone last Sunday.
Strangely introduced to by someone on here!
Currently dressed in Red, Oxide but will feel better when we get some more clothes for the upper half.
David. And Not another one, from Lily.
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Post by Jim on May 19, 2021 4:03:23 GMT
Hardly has the last adventure gone, well not yet actually, but a new little girl seduced me so I must introduce you to Molly. She is a bit bashful but will allow a picture soon once her boiler is tested ok. Hope you are all jealous as she is beautiful!!! Midland of course! D My first love, a S W Johnson 4-4-0? please let her be that.
Jim
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 19, 2021 8:18:23 GMT
[/quote] My first love, an S W Johnson 4-4-0? please let her be that. Jim
[/quote] Jim What a cad I am, I would love to do a 4-4-0 which one can do using Princess of Wales castings and many of the drawings but alas this is a little different. Molly is possibly the most realistic of all of LBSC's designs and is supposed to be a Jinty in 3 1/2". But can make her into a 2441 class built around 1900 and suitably modified but best of all is that the livery was still crimson lake at that time so she will look better than just a black tank engine. Found this, a boiler and chassis, on the usual eBay for a pitance and took a punt. Have tested the boiler to 160 lbs so I can do the shell test, probably today, I have mucked around with the chassis and corrected the valve gear so it runs on air. So put very simplistically, attach the boiler to the chassis with the fittings in place and all I need to do is the platework. That done, when all the big ones have gone as I get more and more senile, this one will be small enough to have a bit of fun at rallies etc. So, Jim, the 4-4-0 is still a dream perhaps a '60'class might fill the bill one day? Cheers David PS Still grinding away on the Aspinal but need relief from bloody filing, filing, filing!!!! |
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Post by Jim on May 19, 2021 8:25:15 GMT
I've often looked at the Princess of Wales as a source for other more shapely Johnson designed locomotives.
Jim
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 20, 2021 9:22:41 GMT
Bloody boiler leaked!
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millman
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Post by millman on May 20, 2021 16:28:12 GMT
Is it fixable?
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 20, 2021 19:31:51 GMT
Hi Having consulted the experts far and wide with variaring advices I think I am going to avoid the consol route. Somehow filling the boiler with soft solder seems a shoddy way out and once in, it appears there is no way out. So I am going to try the 'Princess of Wales' solution that some of our correspondents may be familiar with. That is sucking a magic gung into the cracks to see what happens! I might work or it might mean a new boiler or even a divorce or both but at least we can advise the modelling fraternity what to expect. Now that you have opened the subject up I will have to report progress and make a damn fool of myself!!! At my age I am getting to the who gives a dxxx but then we are experimental engineers so lets have a go!!! Cheers David |
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JonL
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Post by JonL on May 20, 2021 20:51:09 GMT
We share these experiences so we learn collectively, we are with you all the way!
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Post by ettingtonliam on May 20, 2021 23:36:51 GMT
I thought you said you'd tested it to 160 psi? Where does it leak?
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Post by simplyloco on May 21, 2021 9:04:21 GMT
I thought you said you'd tested it to 160 psi? Where does it leak? Stays and firebox roof seam. From where I was standing (two feet away) it would have been advantageous to have been holding an umbrella and wearing swimming trunks...  |
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 21, 2021 9:19:56 GMT
I thought you said you'd tested it to 160 psi? Where does it leak? Judgeing from the last comment from the 'Master', the best answer might be every where or another option he suggested was 'out the bloody holes'! The correct answer is, 'drum roll please', two minute spurts from side stays holding the fiebox to the outer wrapper. About twenty years ago there was a faction in our society who solved these type of problems with all sorts of alternative medicine. One favourite was to put mustard in the boiler, there were others that I have forgotten about. Time to get a tender on the bench and rig up to test the boiler again that is, after appliying some of my secret potion! Hocus pocus, malus locus! David |
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Post by ettingtonliam on May 21, 2021 11:14:27 GMT
Hmm, A slight difference in opinion?
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Post by simplyloco on May 21, 2021 12:07:00 GMT
Hmm, A slight difference in opinion? David is the eternal optimist, bless him. I'm the real-time realist! |
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JonL
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Post by JonL on May 21, 2021 18:33:39 GMT
Is there any risk of structural failure of the boiler or is it purely incontinent?
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 21, 2021 18:40:18 GMT
Is there any risk of structural failure of the boiler or is it purely incontinent? If you read about it in a letter from Hell or even Heaven probably structural, on the other hand if I report it here incontinent!!! D PS Mind on other things right now, the 990 goes for a steam test tomorrow and then off we go!!!! |
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Midland
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Post by Midland on May 23, 2021 15:34:22 GMT
990 in ticket!!
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