Thanks Russ, I am a member of the local club. The club is only 10 miles from my house but most of the members live several hundred miles from here.
Tom
Tubes...leaking
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Re: Tubes...leaking
Hello fellas,
Has this tractor as I understand been in storage for a while or running when the leak was discovered how old is the boiler? Was stored in a wet climate empty, or opened to the environment ( drain plugs out) , stored outside under a tarp ? Possibly the tubes rotted from the inside? So depending on the condition of the boiler Is it possible that a stone or piece of shale got jammed in a tube the pounding on it could have punctured the tube ? if so use a long stainless rod 2 tapered plugs draw bar the plugs in the tube to seal it up. pressure test till its tight enough . if it passes hydro yeah !
I live about a mile from the pacific ocean I have a buddy who has a loco stored next to the ocean. His storage method is to fill the boiler with distilled H2O & cap it or top the boiler off with 3 to 5 psi argon or nitrogen steel tubes and boiler 30 years old still holds water that's an old navy practice I was told . I fill my boiler to store it . I run every month till Covid ... we use a lot of zincs ,The loco is 29 years old about 2 years ago I had to reroll a few of my Copper /Nickle tubes the lowest ones in the fire box . I use a 16 gauge shot gun brush brass or stainless 5/8 id I think. The Leaks started when I tried to teach a guy by letting him run my 10 wheeler locomotive . He decided to crank up the oil burner and run the tender dry, it sounded like a B-52 taking off . I pulled his ejection seat lever! He got an education that day . he is running electrics now days Thanks for listening
Has this tractor as I understand been in storage for a while or running when the leak was discovered how old is the boiler? Was stored in a wet climate empty, or opened to the environment ( drain plugs out) , stored outside under a tarp ? Possibly the tubes rotted from the inside? So depending on the condition of the boiler Is it possible that a stone or piece of shale got jammed in a tube the pounding on it could have punctured the tube ? if so use a long stainless rod 2 tapered plugs draw bar the plugs in the tube to seal it up. pressure test till its tight enough . if it passes hydro yeah !
I live about a mile from the pacific ocean I have a buddy who has a loco stored next to the ocean. His storage method is to fill the boiler with distilled H2O & cap it or top the boiler off with 3 to 5 psi argon or nitrogen steel tubes and boiler 30 years old still holds water that's an old navy practice I was told . I fill my boiler to store it . I run every month till Covid ... we use a lot of zincs ,The loco is 29 years old about 2 years ago I had to reroll a few of my Copper /Nickle tubes the lowest ones in the fire box . I use a 16 gauge shot gun brush brass or stainless 5/8 id I think. The Leaks started when I tried to teach a guy by letting him run my 10 wheeler locomotive . He decided to crank up the oil burner and run the tender dry, it sounded like a B-52 taking off . I pulled his ejection seat lever! He got an education that day . he is running electrics now days Thanks for listening
Re: Tubes...leaking
I run distilled water with a boiler treatment added. When not at the RR it lives in a temperature controlled shop here in the desert. The problem may be "age" I don't know. Only one tube leaks. At this point I trying to pick a procedure to repair it.Santafescotty60 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:47 am Hello fellas,
Has this tractor as I understand been in storage for a while or running when the leak was discovered how old is the boiler? Was stored in a wet climate empty, or opened to the environment ( drain plugs out) , stored outside under a tarp ? Possibly the tubes rotted from the inside? So depending on the condition of the boiler Is it possible that a stone or piece of shale got jammed in a tube the pounding on it could have punctured the tube ? if so use a long stainless rod 2 tapered plugs draw bar the plugs in the tube to seal it up. pressure test till its tight enough . if it passes hydro yeah !
I live about a mile from the pacific ocean I have a buddy who has a loco stored next to the ocean. His storage method is to fill the boiler with distilled H2O & cap it or top the boiler off with 3 to 5 psi argon or nitrogen steel tubes and boiler 30 years old still holds water that's an old navy practice I was told . I fill my boiler to store it . I run every month till Covid ... we use a lot of zincs ,The loco is 29 years old about 2 years ago I had to reroll a few of my Copper /Nickle tubes the lowest ones in the fire box . I use a 16 gauge shot gun brush brass or stainless 5/8 id I think. The Leaks started when I tried to teach a guy by letting him run my 10 wheeler locomotive . He decided to crank up the oil burner and run the tender dry, it sounded like a B-52 taking off . I pulled his ejection seat lever! He got an education that day . he is running electrics now days Thanks for listening
Thank you
Tom
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Re: Tubes...leaking
your care is probably the only reason it has made it this long without a retubing.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.