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| Stilldrillin:
Blummin well done Stew! :clap: Fingers firmly crossed on your behalf...... :thumbup: David D |
| shoey51:
fingers crossed here for ya Stew great work mate :clap: :clap: :thumbup: |
| NickG:
Fingers crossed Stew! Well done, it looks spot on. :bow: When I took my boiler down to the club ages ago they wanted to see the longitudinal stays soldered in too. They usually are, I know the 1 on the left looking from the front is a hollow stay for the blower. The strange thing about it is, the blower valve goes straight into the backhead without any bush - but they weren't happy with that on mine for some reason. Nick |
| sbwhart:
Thanks for your good wishes Lads, just spent a couple of hours making blanking plugs for the pressure test still got a few to go. I spotted that one of the stays in the back head, fire box side, didn't have any solder around it, so thats causing me some concern, its towards the front so it can be got at, we will see. Nick:- I've followed the drawing with the longitudinal stays where they are screwed onto the end plates, talked to the boiler inspector about it and he was open on screwed or soldered, sometimes I think these thing are left open to interpretation, I know there is an issue with boiler valves being able to be screwed all the way out, where there's a bit of an ongoing debate in Model Engineer. I sure you've come across this at work it all boils down to professional judgement in the end, but it can get very frustrating. Stew |
| Dean W:
It looks very well done, Stew. I hope the inspector feels the same way I do! :thumbup: Thanks for the new pictures and write up. Dean |
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