The Home Machinist!

And white is the color of asbestos… Or magnesium. You can never tell for certain if a substance is asbestos or something else. The nearest thing to certainty is 9"x9" floor tile and the mastic its put down with. The most frightening at first sight boiler room I was ever in was an unimprov...

Thanks all, this has been a very interesting thread so far, lots of useful information on the ever-evolving black art of burners. A question I have is, could this design be reduced in size, and proportion, for use in smaller scales or smaller fireboxes? A reduction would no doubt involve some experi...

I don't know which came first the Chicken (the mills) or the Egg (mech engineers), but some point years ago (as FK says above) while it remained a "standard" size, 5" was discontinued as a "stock" item. (You need 20k linear feet? No problem.) I don't know whether the mills l...

And this should bring on an entirely new thread of opinions . . . throttle in front of the superheater (saturated side), or throttle beyond the superheater (dry side)?

Bartholomew's original version was intended to model a Tennessee Central Rwy locomotive which he said ran through where he grew up. This was the first live steam locomotive I was able to watch being built.

Someone just liked red! LOL!

Google is a great thing . . . if you know where to look. The Tuscan red cab roof (if it wasn't painted red just because someone liked red), is a dead giveaway for a Great Northern Rwy locomotive, as are several other details. This photo is of a Great Northern Class E-14, built by Baldwin 1909, with ...

NP317 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:13 pmSome is available, even in Al's hand writing. - RussN

Question to anyone . . . does burner tube size vary or are all Al's burners made using 1/2" EMT?

Perfect ~ thanks Russ.

Chris,
Is there any design information available for Von Ruben burners?

Neatly done.
Are those "Tufnol" spring leaves?

That's a home-made job if I ever saw one.