Thanks to all who replied to my question. I think it might be a Mike Chaney safety valve. The metric thread tricked me. Most of our locos have ME threads and with an American loco we assumed (silly us) that it must have an American thread. We did not the Chaney filler valve though.
cheers Mike Bickford Berowra & Nalya Tramway Sydney, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Chaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:11 AM Subject: Re: Cricket Safety Valve Thread > Walt wrote:- > > > A few years back I had to replace the safety in one of my Cricket's. At that > > time Mike said he bought the safety's from someone in the British Isles. > > 'Twas me. In December 1993 I supplied 100 safety valves threaded M7 x 1 for the > first batch of Crickets. > > Mike > > >