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Great help, all of you. Thank you. Chris Schilling Midland MI

It is welded steel. Not sure about capacity. It is about 15 cm diameter by 30 cm long. I like the high pH solution. Cheers

Hello Last year, I bought a 1/8 scale steam locomotive. The boiler is 100% iron. It doesn't have any sacrificial anode to prevent corrosion. I was told that it might be good to fill the boiler with kerosene in order to store the boiler for winter months. In this way, corrosion could be...

Photos are at the end of the list of messages under the discussion of ceramic burners in locos. You can see the underside of my locomotive with a set of propane burners I recently made. I'm interested in possibly going to ceramic burners; as the members of this forum are very good at...

My PC just crashed and I lost all my pictures. I bought my locomotive from Jim Zeeler in Ohio. It is modeled after the 1830's vintage Invicta, made by the Stephenson company in England. It weighs 110 pounds empty. It's probably the least expensive way to get into steam. A small engine, it...

I teach materials science at a small college. I also have a 1/8 scale steam locomotive. Contact me if you need anything. Cheers Chris Schilling Midland Michigan [email protected]

I prematurely hit "submit." Sorry. The locomotive was originally designed to run on coal. I guess this is why so much draft was needed through the firebox. I fixed the problem by enlarging the hole size on the exhaust port directly beneath the smokestack. Here is a picture of the...

Hello In my last post, I showed a propane flamethrower-type burner for my 1/8 scale steam locomotive, the Invicta. It had a baffle plate. My goal was to open up the bottom of the firebox as much as possible, in order to let plenty of air flow in. This was a mistake. The flames...

Hello everyone, Thanks again for your posts. I am learning a great deal about ceramic burners, and I greatly appreciate your comments and photos. I wanted to show a picture of my 1/8 scale locomotive, a model of the 1830s vintage Invicta, one of the first locomotives made by the...

Good luck on your locomotive! A good resource that I use has classified ads for all manner of 1/8 scale live steam equipment and suppliers...as well as links to local clubs in and around Iowa: www.discoverlivesteam.com Cheers

1/8 scale Invicta propane fired more fun than I ever imagined