Boiler making for live steam model locos, Part 6

[@DrMoe.Lester]

Great video series, thanks for posting!

[@FrankRuffolo65]

Lovely work you do. Thanks for sharing.

[@flippop101]

This really is a valuable film. For example My gauge glass gave me a false reading leading to my running the boiler dry. By the way, your films are superb, and your workmanship astonishing. Best regards from Germany.

[@weldinginspector7212]

Fantastic craftsmanship and brilliant videos. Are all the fittings soldered to your boiler bronze? And I’m guessing all of the threaded fittings coming off for eg. the manifolds, safety valve etc are all bronze too? Is there some kind of washer between the two also? Cheers

[@GandyDancerProductions]

All the bushings on the boiler are bronze with copper washers between them and the fittings

[@davidtaylor6124]

Good info about the gauge glass! Also interesting to see the boiler is dry backed. I've enjoyed watching your videos. I plan to make a G1 loco when the my 5" gauge project is finished and I don't think I'll bother with a gauge glass at all because I don't like how they fill the cab. But it will be meths or gas fired so the temps shouldn't be hot enough to melt the silver solder even if it runs dry. An electronic water level sensor and electric pump would be a nice way to keep the level without the bother of an axle pump.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi David, don't know about meths but I think gas might burn the boiler if it runs dry. I have an engine based on a Roundhouse Lady Anne without a water gauge and the gas tank is designed to run out before the boiler. I'd put a water valve somewhere to quickly top up if i were you. An electric pump must consume quite a bit of battery power pumping against boiler pressure.

[@GroveDave]

Very interesting and informative video. May be it was not possible, but would have been good to see just a little bit of the actual silver soldering happening and to see the actual hydraulic testing take place

[@jackharty8648]

Could you do a video of blanche running on steam ?

[@cmw184]

Man i really wanna build a locomotive. Ill likely do 1:22 scale, steel boiler, coal fired loco from my local area from 130 years ago.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

When I finish the loco I'd show it fired up. Firing and running it will be a learning curve for me and I try and share that too.

[@donaldasayers]

You can never have too many take-offs from the boiler. Even when you think you have enough, you decide you need an anti vacuum valve, or a whistle or something.

[@MrJoeWoolley]

Please will you go into how you made the safety valve in more detail, it's the most realistic and aesthetically pleasing I've seen to date.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi, I'll include a description of the safety valve in the next video upload on Russell Part 10.

[@MrJoeWoolley]

+Gandy Dancer Productions. Splendid! Thank you. It's a very beautiful locomotive you're building.

[@housedadtrains]

hi nice work. May i ask where you got that type of gauge glass with the blowdown from.As mine has a broken blowdown tap i would like to replace. thanks great work there.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

I got this water gauge off of Ebay with the blown down attached. I thought it was a Stuart Turner but couldn't see a similar one on their website. Try Macc Models in Macclesfield they have a website with lots of steam fittings.

[@housedadtrains]

Thanks. i got mine originally from a chap who lived local he said he didnt use them and was about to put them on e/bay lol . sadly ive lost his number thanks anyhow..

[@oke215]

can you make a fire up video and how to fire it correctly?

[@diy-chris1332]

6:30 the capillar reaction changes with temperature!!!!! (Extremely)

[@rjordans]

So, does it get better or worse?

[@mattseymour8637]

Are you talking about the gauge glass bring up to 6mm?

[@GandyDancerProductions]

The glass is 6mm outside diameter.

[@SteamDriven]

Hi Jonathan... you mention that you have used a "modified" Roundhouse regulator... I'm planning to do the same (shorten it) on a build I'm doing. How did you modify ? Shorten and use an internal or external thread ? Or some other tricky solution ? Thanks.... John

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi John, I was careful I didn't shorten it too much. I cut off 7/16" leaving enough metal on the end of the regulator to make a decent internal thread of 3/16" by 40 thread per inch, the same as on the bit I cut off, without getting too close to the valve seats. Then I machined a threaded plug with a hole down the center made with # 37 drill. The plug partly screwed into the steam manifold on the boiler and partly into the shortened regulator jamming tight in one or the other it doesn't matter which. It screws down onto the the same fiber washer the regulator was supplied with. Hope this helps.

[@SteamDriven]

Very helpful... many thanks !

[@mattseymour8637]

What would the standard diameter of a 3.5 inch loco be?

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi Matt, never built a 3 1/2 gauge but i would say anything between 2 1/2" to 6" diameter. The latter was a LBSC narrow gauge loco he proposed.

[@RandomsFandom]

Coal in the top of furnace, shaker grate at the bottom to break up clinkers and ash to fall out bottom. No need to scoop out ash, just drop it on the ground.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi David, it's a small space to get a shaking grate into.

[@RandomsFandom]

You could make it like a slide shutter.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Here's just not enough space to put an operating mechanism in. Maybe on a bigger loco.

[@richajaiswal3201]

Sir where is the first part

[@GandyDancerProductions]

The first part is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/raq2hYyQirh-bKs where I start describing my small steam locos. Russell I start describing here in part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3i9kqyrmbCbjJY then onwards from there. If you go to my channel and look under videos you'll see them all there: Gandy Dancer Productions.

[@richajaiswal3201]

Sir if u don't mind, I would like to ask one another stupid question "where is the first of boiler making for steam model".your reply shows 6th part. I want very beginning of this, in which the barrel was made. seriously sir I needs your help because I want to make this one for my daughters as I am not a technical person so I will do this after watching your videos.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Here is the first part about making the boiler: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6Xdn2tuj66SrJY then follow on from here. Good luck.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

I have to point out these locos are not suitable for children. If the boiler is not built and tested properly it could cause serious injury. You need a good knowledge of water a fire management to run them safely especially coal fired boilers like this one.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

I have an intension of doing that in the not too distant future. So keep an eye on my channel.

[@wanerjacquesbressane5682]

Legal

[@jonathanguilbert8658]

I hope so.

[@hansrikhof9579]

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