Fowler 16341 Restoration Part 10

[@dadyo63]

Well done guys,awsum

[@ryandavis7593]

Please use face shields and gloves when grinding. I have seen horrific accidents that could be very easily been avoided. You all are doing great work and don’t want you to sacrificing to the railroad gods unnecessarily. Greetings from the high plains of Texas.

[@peterfrazer1943]

Love watching this job. As a former Ship Repair Welder, I worked on a few Boilers with the Boilersmiths. I remember fillet welding around the expanded tubes, belt and braces. Keep up the good work, you are doing us proud!!

[@stephensmith799]

Hollow Stays. Such a great idea👍

[@adriangiddins6065]

Onlu just found these videos..... really interesting and the informative voice over is excellent.....I will now be following the progress !!

[@ariedekker7350]

Thank you so much for bringing this video to me.

[@happyhome41]

BEAUTIFUL -- skills - exquisite knowledge - strong work ethic - attention to detail - amazing results. The mark of a true professional is to make something that is truly complex, and make it look easy.

[@MichaelS3013]

It gives me great pleasure to watch you at work. Thanks for the video.

[@caroleast9636]

Great work guys, and good to see mum helping as well. I look forward to seeing it action one day..

[@carlmalone4011]

Excellent work. Your group is doing important work.

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic again and as always (video and work). A lot of progress is shown. Congrats! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing this rescue and restoration mission. Best regards, luck and health to all of you.

[@thee4tank625]

Just seeing how much work and how many minor adjustments you guys are doing is just fantastic! Seeing the derailment bar and how bent the front end was versus what it looked like after you guys finished with it is just crazy, they really beat the crap out of this poor thing in it's working days didn't they? But either way I'm really glad to see you guys are hard at work trying to get her back into service, can't wait to see her steam!

[@richardbradley961]

HI LIKE THE VIDIEOS , KEEP THEM COMING. REGARDS RICHARD.

[@saltleywsc]

Great Video thanks for sharing ,good progress on the Loco !

[@rogerswyer5357]

Very interesting, always admire knowledge and skill .

[@wideyxyz2271]

Been waiting for this! Brilliant!

[@markneedham752]

Volunteers or staff..? Drilling those stays out, annular cutter is the go. Good stuff all round.🙃🙃Yep, from down under.

[@happyhome41]

Curious, if one uses rails in one's enterprise, why would the system be subject to "regular" coming off the rails ? Wonderful video !

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Occasionally….. sugar mills didn’t look after their track massively well! 😂

[@AoftheN]

It's great to see your progress, thank you!

[@manga12]

ah yes inside a boiler firebox I have known it quite a bit the last few years as I help out at a railroad historical society, cleaning the grates and drilling out telltells as well as blowin out flues once, I show one time I did on my channel in video if anyone wants to hunt, I am surprised though your using a grinder to cut that off we usually just use a torch to burn the stays out and cut the sheets or a plasma for cutting the new ones, its faster, its messier and has more cleanup but its more expediant, I like your voice though its pleasent to the ears and articulated when you speak some have such a dialect or accent you cant hardly make out what they say , you sound though almost australian, I am no boilermaker though but I read up on research and projects even if I cant do the math to design it, soo many things you can do to make a boiler more effecent or burn cleaner, or it dont even have to have fire there is boiler that uses solar collectors that follow the sun and they are getting an 800 degree super heat on the steam meaning its hot enough to compound if you were to use it in remote locations like off grid so diesle dont have to be burned its noisy expensive and smelly, the solar project that the guy at vapor locomotive company in idaho in the states is heated by the sun, though its generating rate of steam I dont know the capabillity of currently, and you have the facinating differant layouts of tubes and flues as well as multipass tubes and rifled boiler tubes like in stationary boilers that could be experamented with as well as the feed water heating, steam might be an old concept but its far from unuseable or a dead tech only the method of making and harnessing is newer and more cutting edge, and it is a robust if not a bit finnike technology

[@michaelclark2840]

Good job.

[@bambukouk]

It's been a while... 😉 Good to see you guys making progress again👍 Thank you for another great video, looking forward to more...

[@srrlrrmuseumphillips]

Thank you for all these special videos! I do have a question on the journal scoring shown in the day five video: your thought you might need to remake the axle bu there is no mention of that here. Can you comment on your solution please?

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Hi, apologies, I’ve only just seen this question. We managed to skim down the surface of each journal face on the axle to a good, but undersize finish. We are casting new axle box bearings which will be machined to the new and slightly smaller size. It will be the subject of a future video. 🙂

[@jedferguson]

Just wondering do you take apprenticeships?

[@kevinstaddon8517]

Very nice

[@louisvanrijn3964]

It is interesting to know how much reserve factor was used on the plate thickness of the boiler. After many accidents in the steam age the engineers knew fairly precisely how thick the parts had to be. In aviation the margins of safety were hughe in those times. If a pitted plate had still an acceptable margin of safety instead of a hughe one, it is OK, is it?

[@markneedham8726]

"Tully Sugar Mill"...! Australia...? Have we finished yet. ( Exporting, what little Heritage we have) But at least the Poms, respect and understand Industrial History. We, in Australia, bloody amateurs. Those with the clout and or money, haven't a clue. Oh........ there a few, but, too few, unfortunately. Drilling the stays out of our Marshall Roller, ( Rockhampton Heritage Village) we used Annular Cutters, nice. As one of our new "Lady" politicians said, on first seeing Rockhamptons Collection of Machinery, cars etc, ''We'll have to get rid of all this shit". Yes, our lady politicians are PROPPER. But all the whinging aside, 'Well done Great Britain, you are doing it still."

[@michaelclark2840]

Yes, I was going to comment that it would have been easier to use an annular cutter to cut around those stays, alot easier.

[@Cinesound01]

I disagree, as a Pom in Australia and involved in preserving Industrial heritage. We are not hopeless or have a clue: the problem is that many of the older generations are stuck in the mentality “it’s too far gone” and era where it is 1965, you can go buy a Fowler from a Mill and all will be okay. We have the tools, foundries and equipment to do it, but it is ruled by older generations, accountants and ignorant people. As well coupled with the laws of heritage being woefully inadequate to stop export of industrial significance. I did not agree with the Fowler being exported from Australian, as it history is with Tully & sadly as most things money talks with Government asleep at the wheel. If anything is going to change, you need to stop getting into this defeatist mindset, it can be restored and make a good plan. Nothing is too far gone. That’s a load of rubbish!

[@markneedham8726]

@@Cinesound01 "but it is ruled by older generations, accountants and ignorant people. "..and I said "Those with the clout and or money, haven't a clue. Oh........ there a few, but, too few, unfortunately." I think we are both on the same track. We are just saying it differently. I am with you, I am a Pensioner, 73, and have spent my own money, plus Volunteer to restore our Heritage, over the last 20 odd years in particular. ..then "you need to stop getting into this defeatist mindset, it can be restored and make a good plan. Nothing is too far gone. That’s a load of rubbish!" Where did I say this..? We need blokes like you and I, to get up our Politicians, ( those with the clout and the money) to invest in our Heritage. Cinesound..We really are on the same side, just not talking clearly is my problem. We restayed the Firebox on this beauty. It is now waiting, for those with the clout and the money to authorise a Boiler Inspector, been waiting 4 years now. They are waiting for us to die, so we won't hassle them anymore, then they'll scrap it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3-2dXZ3mtqBj7c

[@stephensmith799]

No Grooving above the Foundation Ring

[@majedalmalla8539]

عمل جميل جدا شكرا جزيلا

[@btwbrand]

I'm against use of filler to smooth depressions and irregularity in the metal work. If you've ever seen filler on an automotive vehicle or a machine such as a Bridgeport or lathe you will find the paint is always going to fail where filler is used underneath before you find failure anywhere else. This weakness is sure to be even more evident on a machine that will have big swings in temperature such as a boiler or equipment that is not used for some period of time. Metal filler or leaving the imperfections in the metal work is the route I would have used. The filler will fail before the paint does.

[@TheSteamWorkshop]

Again, we haven’t used filler on anywhere structural or anywhere subject to any force or temperature changes. On a car body the metalwork is thin & subject to twisting and movement, on an inch thick lump of forged metal the surface is completely stable, and the depth of the pitting such that we’re confident the filler will be stable. But you might be right & we’ll learn for next time. 🙂

[@wideyxyz2271]

Subbed.

[@brothertyler]

Nice. Why does Finn have that gay nose ring?