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Hi Chaps
I've been putting this off long enough.
But first a warning:- boilers are pressure vessel and are dangerous they are not to be taken lightly, if they fail they can cause serious injury, so due care needs to be taken when you build one. Make sure you understand the boiler regulations that apply to your part of the world, and if you have no experience of boiler building, find someone who is that can guide and mentor you.
I did a lot of research on boiler building, to some extent this was a mistake as I found a lot of contradiction in design and methods, to such an extent that I was seriously looking into buying a commercially made boiler, but this would have cost up to £1500, but I began to realise that methods and thinking have changes over the years and talking to club members and the clubs boiler inspector cleared a lot of the uncertainty up, and with encouragement I decided to have a go at building my own.
To help you Guys to understand some of the term used in the UK I've done a Crap-O-Cad of the type of boiler I will be making.
By way of explanation of some of the terms:-
Stays:- addition support given to flat services
Supper Heater Tubes:- these are large tubes through which pipe work runs that takes "wet steam" collected in the steam dome back through fire box to give it an extra dose of heat.
Throat Plate:- front part of the outer fire box
Foundation Ring:- This fills the space between the outer and inner fire box
Front and Fire box Tube plate:- These are the plates that the Flue and Superheater tubes fit too.
I think the rest of the bits are self explanatory.
I bought a boiler kit for my Loco from Reeves it cost £290.
This is the kit of parts.
Everyone I've spoken to has given me the same bit of advise:- the key to good boiler making is in the preparation, so over the next week or two I'm going to spend time preparing for the build.
The adventure begins
Stew
I've been putting this off long enough.
But first a warning:- boilers are pressure vessel and are dangerous they are not to be taken lightly, if they fail they can cause serious injury, so due care needs to be taken when you build one. Make sure you understand the boiler regulations that apply to your part of the world, and if you have no experience of boiler building, find someone who is that can guide and mentor you.
I did a lot of research on boiler building, to some extent this was a mistake as I found a lot of contradiction in design and methods, to such an extent that I was seriously looking into buying a commercially made boiler, but this would have cost up to £1500, but I began to realise that methods and thinking have changes over the years and talking to club members and the clubs boiler inspector cleared a lot of the uncertainty up, and with encouragement I decided to have a go at building my own.
To help you Guys to understand some of the term used in the UK I've done a Crap-O-Cad of the type of boiler I will be making.
By way of explanation of some of the terms:-
Stays:- addition support given to flat services
Supper Heater Tubes:- these are large tubes through which pipe work runs that takes "wet steam" collected in the steam dome back through fire box to give it an extra dose of heat.
Throat Plate:- front part of the outer fire box
Foundation Ring:- This fills the space between the outer and inner fire box
Front and Fire box Tube plate:- These are the plates that the Flue and Superheater tubes fit too.
I think the rest of the bits are self explanatory.
I bought a boiler kit for my Loco from Reeves it cost £290.
This is the kit of parts.
Everyone I've spoken to has given me the same bit of advise:- the key to good boiler making is in the preparation, so over the next week or two I'm going to spend time preparing for the build.
The adventure begins
Stew