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| shoey51:
:bow: :bow: :bow: lovin your work Stew :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: |
| madjackghengis:
Doing great work, Stew, I guess you're here to set the standard for us regular folks. I've got to say, the soldering job on that fire hole and the bushes is a work of art, great to hear the boiler inspector likes your work too. You should be done with this boiler pretty ricky tik, and ready to show us some steam and pressure :headbang: this thread is the motivation I needed to get past my hesitation to build one for my next steam engine, the one I've had in a box unmade for a few years. Did I mention gorgeous work already? :lol: nothing but beautiful :ddb: :nrocks: mad jack |
| NickG:
Stew, forgot to ask, is all the solder you're using easy flow 2? Are you following Curly's build instructions? Just wondered because I know on mine some of it is sif bronzed and some different grades of silver solder so that you don't melt what you've already done. Nick |
| sbwhart:
Nick For the firebox extensions I used easyflo No 1 which is a slightly higher melting point I reasoned that this joint will be subjected to quite a number of reheating, for the same reason on fire box hole and the backhead bushes I've used some high melting point silver solder that John gave me, but before I used it I had a trial run on the scrap firebox tube plate just to see if I could get it up to temperature. Cheers Stew |
| NickG:
Stew, Thanks for the info, though you must be using different types. Keep up the good work. Nick |
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