The Home Machinist!

well there you go - saved me going out into the camper and actually measuring the trucks....

IIRC Fred did it with a small chisel re-shaped tool to round the ends over, about 10 degrees at a time.

Doesn't that describe most of California in general?

It used to be that you knew your diesel was set right when it would shoot carbon balls out the stack after it had been idling for a while.

Hey ..if he gets $100K for it...more power to him.

Cannot blame a guy for trying.

I wonder what else is included to comprise the 'train' he is selling?

now if you can just get it to run on bio-diesel -> you can smell like a giant French fry as you knock down trees....

not exactly... it is a process where the end of the tube is folded over with the tool and beaded behind the tube sheet at the same time to keep the tube from working in / out of the tubesheet with temp changes maybe car exhausts use this -> never seen it I have only ever done it on BIG boilers...and...

Not the first time I have heard of it mentioned - > and was used on full size boilers (not just locos) with steel tubes -> but it is a real PITA on a small boiler -> and only Fred would have done it because...well ....it was Fred... all the rest of us just roll the tubes in place and be done with it...

necessity is the mother of creative machinists

I would check to see that the teeth are fully engaging.

Crud under the flange could be keeping them apart

Taper pipe thread or straight?

Been there, done that on a friend's m/c engine.

Does not hold compression worth a hoot.

Factory (Spandau) error.

I DID say earlier "ah, you are North of the border". Did not question Chris' path, was just commenting that in some places in the States that his direction could cause potential problems. It is amazing how UNcommon commen sense has proven to be. As for a safety valve having to be cool for ...