Just a thought.... what if the wire was bare and you bushed it through the smoke box with epoxy?
Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vance Bass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Source for high temp wire for headlight > Mitch, > > Sorry I can't help out with a source, but I can offer some health tips: > > > through the smokebox. I've seen > > Teflon and silicon insulated wire advertised as high temperature tolerant. > > You should not expose any thing made of Teflon to direct flame. It > produces a poisonus gas that will make you very unhappy. Through > the smokebox would be about the worst place imaginable to have > Teflon. I'd suggest running it through some brass tubing -- just big > enough to get the wire through -- and along the boiler jacket. This is > prototypical and keeps the Teflon and fire away from each other. > > regards, > -vance- > > Vance Bass > Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA > Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass >
