Re: Faux firebox (now firebox Facts!)

Keith Taylor wrote: Royce, If you go back through my original posting, you will see that the door on the side is the cinder clean out. I think that I blinked while reading your post and missed that comment. But you're right. It's there in black and white. My bad. royce

Re: Faux firebox (now firebox Facts!)

- Original Message - From: "Geoff Spenceley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Thanks Keith (as always!). O.S 3/4" Britannia also has side doors > >to remove the ashes. (I haven't made the dampers for the Maisie > >yet! - -but your drawing is still on the desk top) Hi Geoff, I bet my pile of unbu

Re: Faux firebox (now firebox Facts!)

uot; and pushing the large clinker off of the rocking grates, onto the hinger drop grate. The side door is not used for firing control. Keith - Original Message - From: "Royce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" Sent: Tuesday, March 29

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t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: Re: Faux firebox (now firebox Facts!) > > > Keith Taylor wrote: > > > > The "doors" you mention are located at the front and rear of the ash > >

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Keith Taylor wrote: The "doors" you mention are located at the front and rear of the ash pan, and are called "dampers" and they control where the air enters the fire, and how much. Hi Keith. You know, I just re-visited Vance's photo and it appears that there is a hinged thingy on the side of th

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Hi Keith. Thanks for the info. It always amazes me how much knowledge is in this group. And how much skill it takes to actually drive a steam locomotive. Don't imagine there's alot of "kick back" time like I'm sure there is driving a diesel. They took all the fun out of it ! royce in SB Ke

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> The outside frame on your pony truck is awesome! Thanks, Royce. I can't take credit for that part: it's a brass casting I got from Pete Thorp several years ago. I considered making them myself, then remembered that I had some, somewhere in my box of castings. That sure made the job easier! -

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Hi Vance. Thanks for the info and photos. Seeing what you've done is inspirational. The outside frame on your pony truck is awesome! royce in SB Vance Bass wrote: Royce, Coincidentally, I finished mounting the firebox and pony truck on my Ruby last night.

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Hi, Mike, You can read full details in the Forney kit instructions: To install link-and-pin couplers, I just remove the Accucraft thing, drill a hole in the beam and glue it in. best regards, -Vance- Vance Bass FH&PB R

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Vance for the Ruby owners of the group can you provide photo's of your frame/cab floor extension including the mounting of the rear coupler box or link and pin box? Mike Paterson BSRR __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new reso

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Royce, Coincidentally, I finished mounting the firebox and pony truck on my Ruby last night. Photo attached (Dave, I made it small, in case it gets through to everyone again). What I was referring to in the previous note is the fact that the four-wheel pony truck is mounted on a bolster, like

Re: Faux firebox (now firebox Facts!)

Hello Royce. You wrote: > My supposition is that you should see the bottom of the > firebox down to the mudring and then "something" related to the fire - > maybe called the "ashpan" ? The photos that I've seen seem to have > "doors" on them controlled by a rod. This is the part I don't > unders

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nd. But at any rate, it turns out that the pony truck frame swings to the side on curves and would foul any faux firebox I were to put there. So my idea has been dashed on the rocks of practicality. Oh well. I really didn't need a futher complication to my project to prevent me from

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At 01:39 PM 3/25/05 -0700, you wrote: >(List readers, sorry this will get stripped off the note. If you're dying to see >the photo, I'll be glad to send it to you if you contact me off-list.) >regards, Vance, The photo indeed DID make it through, at least through to me. Regards, Harry

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Vance, The pic wasn't stripped, you made a "faux" pas but got away with it--hey, it was worth it! Thanks! Geoff. P.S. I am attaching a highly exciting photo of my wife and me in bed and steaming up on our 60th anniversary but no doubt it'll get stripped. I have no such luck as you did!! Ro

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Amazing Vance! I got the picture Bob

Faux firebox

Hi group. I'm having to redesign the suspension for the pony truck on my Argyle Philadelphia and I thought it might be cool to include a faux firebox in the support structure. Does anyone have any pics of a firebox on an 0-4-2T locomotive ? Thanks, royce in SB