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Bogstandard:
Loco,

I had a look around the Warco site but couldn't find any Keats plates, but there was this one, which is similar, but a little limited at how small an item it can hold.

http://www.warco.co.uk/Cylinder-Clamp-6798081E8B.aspx

Bogs

loco:
volume 4402 features how do make the cheap chinese version accurate.
I will check mine tomorrow to see how small a piece it will take. These can also be used on the mill as well as a faceplate.
Pete

loco:
The boiler - The final instalment.

The original drawings were on A2 and are fine except that no bushes are shown on the tube plate and that safety valve. The bush sizes are shown later and should be 5/16 x 32 as should the connector and nut. They are shown as 26 tpi as at the time Kennions had a lot of 26tpi fittings but 32 tpi is better and also allows fittings to be lined up easier.

Stan Bray used these drawings to write the article and it contains the reprints. Somehow there is no drawing of the bushes, just a mention in passing but at least you can make the boiler from them.

Round about 2005 Willie Schneeberger in Germany decided to improve matters by redrawing the whole lot on CAD and on A4 sheets. I perused them and considered them a load of **************. I produced a long list of corrections but from what I have seen they were never altered and these are the ones sent out - warts and all.
If you have a set of these contact me off line and I will send you a copy privately as I do not wish to put them here. The enclosed drawing shows the position of the bushes. Do not put the lower water gauge bush any lower as there will be little enough water over the boiler crown. The correct water level is 1/2 to 2/3 of a glass.

The bushes for the top tubeplate should be od 9/16, spigot od 7/16 and threaded 5/16 and those on the front are od 7/16, spigot 5/16 and threaded 1/4 x 40. If you follow Stan's 'words and music' you WILL get a successful boiler.

Anyone who really has a difficulty then please contact me off line and I will so my best to help you. Perhaps builders and prospective builders could print these jottings out and fix them to the drawings. Still to come - what it really looks like.
Pete
ps Drawing to follow

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loco:

THATS ALL FOLKS :lol:

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