COMMON PROBLEMS WITH MODEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES - PART #1

Common Problems With Model Steam Locomotives - Part #1. When a miniature Steam Locomotive has not been run for a while it is often not just a simple case of filling the Boiler with water and lighting the fire. It will require recommissioning first. This is what happens if water is left in the Cylinders.
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[@raymondleggs5508]

This is basically what has happened to a lot of full sized display locos even ones that have been kept indoors all their life after decommissioning, the only loco I know of that has been brought down properly is the experimental Baldwin water tube boiler locomotive number 60000 which is on display in a museum in Pennsylvania.

[@LordPhobos6502]

2:45 At the shed, we call that 'percussive maintainence'. It's a recognised industry standard technique for getting a rail vehicle moving again.

[@sevensprings460]

Woohoo! Ultra violence!

[@mikus4242]

The zero gag aside, ever thought of adding an air storage tank so you have more air capacity while staying with your ultra quiet compress?

[@keithappleton]

But then the compressors would be running longer and therefor making the motor noise for longer etc. I just find it better to live with it as it is and when the compressor motor kicks in, I simply stop recording the video until the tank is full again }:-)))

[@mikus4242]

@@keithappleton I knew you had a good reason.

[@andrewfayers9147]

LBSC was opposed to feed water being introduced at the firebox end of the boiler, unless from an injector and hot. I would be interested in your opinion.

[@keithappleton]

These days with modern materials, I don't think it matters.

[@danielfitzgerald3417]

Hey Kieth i have a set of drawings for a single cylinder steam engine. I would like to send you a copy of these, but bare in mind that this engine requires castings of the Home Made kind?! then has to built from Scratch you like myself would have find away , to either have the castings made for you with wooden plugy that your build yourself or you would have find a way to heat grey iron to the melting point for the castings. Their arw currently no furnace kits available these require a blower further its very extremely dangerious to handle liquid iron as it spashes and instant third degree burns , my solution to this is that i will mill the cylinder head and steam chest portion together is the milling process. I cannot mill the standard as it is a stuart type, so i am going to do is this make the standard cylinder then i will mount it to cylinder and weld it in place. which will require a square piece of cold rolled steal 3 and 1-4 wide the cylinder will be mounted to that square steel plate in the middle along with the bottom cylinder , to hold the entire steam engine i will make four threaded rods to bolt in the base and to the plate the standard and cylinder are mounted to their is no choice here i cannot mill the standard i could mill it as one piece but i would have use either aluminum or 12 L 14 plus milling a standard designed to be casted is a very long complicated process which would put me into acoma like you. Please give me your thoughts when you have time. Please let me know if you would like a copy of these drawings they are from i believe the fifties, this engines messurements make it a easy one to mill in imperial. Hope your well Keith and this usefull: Merry Chrustmas to you and your family my friend and colleague and Teacher: Daniel Ottawa Canada:

[@keithappleton]

Hello Daniel, This is something I would not like to do. I have seen a video of a single cylinder engine where all the parts were cast. Not really what I am into. But thanks anyway for your kind consideration.

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Horrorshow !

[@keithappleton]

Just an everyday story with a small locomotive ........ }:-)))

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

@@keithappleton I was referring to clockwork orange.

[@keithappleton]

One of my all time favourite films - the book was good too }:-)))

[@mikus4242]

As my training is in programming, the first value you can store in a memory location is all bits off. In other words: zero. Therefore, you are doing it wrong. This should be part 0!

[@keithappleton]

Yes I fully agree with your observation. Being an ex Computer engineer myself, I do understand what you mean. On the early music sequencers that I used to program, there was indeed always a 0 value parameter, but in later models the 0 was not used on the front end of the menus and I always had to add a number to my Program change parameter. The 0 parameter is still used in LSB, MSB Midi programming though. I do like to keep up with the times - so I generally start at 1 these days }:-)))