Charles Lamont

If you standardise on 3/8", both 1/2" & M12 can be sleeved down. A long thread and nut at the top of the drawbar allows for different...

After my first cheap chinese compressor developed a pinhole leak after about 10 years, I spoke to a guy I know who spent several years...

Nice work

But in the OP's case the problem is not a structural repair, it is a purely cosmetic issue with a casting that is functionally sound. He...

Looks a nice job.

Bob, on a full size engine the width of the steam ports will typically be about 1/10 of the cylinder bore, and the exhaust port about...

Looking at the Chiltern website, most of these engines seem to have the exhaust port at the back of the steam chest. I presume the...

I call this project finished. 1" piston 2" stroke 8" flywheel water cooled 181 degrees highest recorded temp at cylinder head 156...

Peripherally, we have RO plant at the Severn Valley Railway to provide water for the loco boilers. New and freshly washed-out boilers...

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Another alloy I have vaguely thought might be useful for flash boilers is Cunifer tube as used in car brake lines, but I have never...

K2, I don't have a copy of the AMBSC codes so I am somewhat in the dark too, but I do have the old books by KN Harris and Martin Evans...

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K2, may I politely suggest you have a tendency to overthink. The UK test code was discussed and agreed with the HSE and the usual UK...

Interesting. Generally it sounds OK to me and definitely worth trying. I think a test in modes other than torsion might be worthwhile...