Gary of the Terror Trestle carrying Shay,
Congrats--you have it steaming well.
An alky loco is fun--agreed? Like losing the fire , catching fire to the
track, catching fire to yer clothes, getting drunk on ethanol, ruining yer
sinuses with the sniffing! I've done it all! Makes coal firing a
I had a blast this morning running Alisan shay for an hour without problems
with pressure drop. Well, pressure did drop when I was taking photographs
and allowed the water to drop low enough that the sight glass had just a bit
of water at the bottom. Of course I pumped in a bit of water and pressu
Gary,
Good, you have a petti-coat!!
re the blower tube changing it's angle--the heat will often anneal the
blower tube and it will flop. This has been a particular problem with O.S
3/4" scale locos so I "lash" them to the nozzle as you have done.
I can't understand why the blower works the way i
Geoff,
Your comments of course are right on. The only way I could observe the
exhaust and blower in action so to speak would be to caulk a glass front on
the smokebox. Otherwise removing the front to look would kill the draft
completely.
Generally, if I run the blower I open it about 1/16-1/8 of a
