Re: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Jesse Grimmer]

Hi there Trent.  I remember you as well.  The name of the single malt scotch
is Glen Livett.  You had the 12 yr old...the 18 yr old is even better.  I
had such a good time at DH.  I am already registered for the next one, and
have my room.  Malone and I still laugh about that.  Truth is we have been
playing jokes on each other for about 30 yrs now.
Jess

 

Re: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Trent Dowler]

Hey Jesse,

  I remember you well. One of my more favorite memories of this past DH meet was
when you had the "Bud Girls" tell Malone that they thought that he was gay. His
reaction could not be put into words. 
  The Climax races was a lot of fun. I just have to figure out how to stay up
all night Saturday night and still be able to drive home (6-7 hours) the next
morning.
 You know, I can't for the life of me remember the name of the single malt that
you were kind enough to let me repeatedly sample. Please jog my memory.

Later,
Trent
 

Re: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Jesse Grimmer]

Hey there Trent,  If  I tell you that I have known that Malone guy for about
30 years, would you think less of me.  I was there with Carl at my first DH
in Jan.  I was the fat guy hanging around after hours racing Climaxes.
 

Re: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Trent Dowler]

Hey Jesse,

  Gears Rule? Sounds like you run around with that Malone character!


Later,
Trent (the Paragould guy from the Diamondhead steamup)


Jesse Grimmer wrote:

> Gears rule!
 

RE: accucraft shay under steam ...

[trotfox]

My Ruby has the same silicone tubing with barbs and wire 'clamps' at each
end.  These are normally used for fuel connections on Nitromethane powered
R/C cars.  The stuff is tougher than I would ever have thought it was.  :)

Who wants to make bets that the production models will use a copper tube
like the newer Ruby's do?  {:)

Trot, the fox who's not really a better...  };]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Shyvers, Steve wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Thank you for the detail. Silicon tubing is probably adequate for the butane
> supply to the burner in this application, but how is the tubing secured at
> each end? Are there hose barbs and clamps?
>
> Steve


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RE: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Dave Cole]

At 8:14 AM -0700 5/8/01, Shyvers, Steve wrote:

>Thank you for the detail. Silicon tubing is probably adequate for the butane
>supply to the burner in this application, but how is the tubing secured at
>each end? Are there hose barbs and clamps?

I don't believe this pre-production model had clamps, but the C16 has 
a metal-sheathed silicon tube with clamps on each end; I would 
suppose that the production model Shay will have a similar 
arrangement.

\dmc

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   Pacifica, Calif. USA  
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RE: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Shyvers, Steve]

Dave,

Thank you for the detail. Silicon tubing is probably adequate for the butane
supply to the burner in this application, but how is the tubing secured at
each end? Are there hose barbs and clamps? 

Steve 

RE: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Dave Cole]

At 5:50 PM -0700 5/7/01, Shyvers, Steve wrote:
>Can you explain the purposes of the upper and
>lower tanks on the afterdeck? The upper tank appears to have a lever on it.
>There is a silicon tube comming from somewhere near the interface between
>the two tanks. Does this tube carry water for the boiler or alcohol for the
>burner?

Both the upper tank and the lower tank have small "hatches" on them, 
which are operational.

The upper tank's hatch opens to reveal the butane intake valve 
(alcohol? what's alcohol?). The butane tank is actually down at the 
bottom of the afterdeck, with a long tube that runs from the intake 
valve down.

The lower tank's hatch opens to reveal a water tank, used to keep the 
butane tank warm.

But, because the butane tank is so small and so far down, the 
Accucraft people thought there would be plenty of room in there for, 
oh, I don't know ... maybe a radio receiver?

The lever above the silicon tube controls the gas pressure to the 
burner; the silicon tube below it carries the gas to the burner.

The more ambitious among us might want to use the bunkers on the 
afterdeck to allow for more gas and distilled water (utilizing an 
axle pump?), thereby increasing the run time.

\dmc

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Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
   Pacifica, Calif. USA  
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
   
Editor:   TRELLIS & TRESTLE, the newsletter of the
   Bay Area Garden Railway Society 
   
Webconductor: Pacific Coast Live Steamers 
   
^^^ 

Re: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Jesse Grimmer]

Good pictures...Gears rule!
 

RE: accucraft shay under steam ...

[Shyvers, Steve]

Dave,

Thank you for posting the pix. Can you explain the purposes of the upper and
lower tanks on the afterdeck? The upper tank appears to have a lever on it.
There is a silicon tube comming from somewhere near the interface between
the two tanks. Does this tube carry water for the boiler or alcohol for the
burner? 

Regards,
Steve

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From: Dave Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 4:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam
Subject: accucraft shay under steam ...


here are some pix of one of the two pre-production models of the 
accucraft shay ...

http://45mm.com/sslivesteam/files/bagrs010506/

though this pre-production model uses the same cylinders as the ruby, 
the production models will have slightly larger cylinders.

i was told by the accucraft people who were running both the shay and 
the c-16 that most inquiries coming into the company right now are 
about the shay.

they believe they'll begin shipping production models of the shay in 
august or september.

this prototype apparently has problems going through the smaller 
curves, but ran on the bagrs layout (12-foot radius) with no problem. 
it did have timing problems, similar to those causing the ruby to run 
better backwards than forwards. i was assured that with the new 
cylinders on the production shays, this won't be a problem in the 
future.

otherwise, this machine ran well in about six firings during the day. 
it seemed to have about 20 minutes of runtime per water tank.

\dmc

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Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
   Pacifica, Calif. USA <http://45mm.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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   Bay Area Garden Railway Society <http://www.bagrs.org/>
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Webconductor: Pacific Coast Live Steamers <http://p-c-l-s.com/>
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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accucraft shay under steam ...

[Dave Cole]

here are some pix of one of the two pre-production models of the 
accucraft shay ...

http://45mm.com/sslivesteam/files/bagrs010506/

though this pre-production model uses the same cylinders as the ruby, 
the production models will have slightly larger cylinders.

i was told by the accucraft people who were running both the shay and 
the c-16 that most inquiries coming into the company right now are 
about the shay.

they believe they'll begin shipping production models of the shay in 
august or september.

this prototype apparently has problems going through the smaller 
curves, but ran on the bagrs layout (12-foot radius) with no problem. 
it did have timing problems, similar to those causing the ruby to run 
better backwards than forwards. i was assured that with the new 
cylinders on the production shays, this won't be a problem in the 
future.

otherwise, this machine ran well in about six firings during the day. 
it seemed to have about 20 minutes of runtime per water tank.

\dmc

-- 
^^^
Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
   Pacifica, Calif. USA  
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
   
Editor:   TRELLIS & TRESTLE, the newsletter of the
   Bay Area Garden Railway Society 
   
Webconductor: Pacific Coast Live Steamers 
   
^^^