Well kinda.........
So its been a while since the last time i was on here, its been hard to find the time to sit down and actually put pen to paper.. or well keyboard to computer ..... you know what i mean!
The big question i know your thinking is "where is pug?" well... at the moment its on the table beside be and ..... its almost in 1 piece!! its been some hard graft recently! there has been a lot going on behind the scenes, i haven't made much noise about it as there was a lot of fiddly little jobs that took up way to much time, like all the pipe work and stuff, its got a new injector and a new lubricator as well as new piping and all sorts!
Its first steam test was the other day, and i had limited success, i had issues with the boiler priming, so after much swearing a cursing the boilers been descaled, cleaned and well flushed and then it had a second test, this was better but still not perfect, so another flush out and a few minor tweaks and we are ready to go again!
I spent most of last night re-building it again, after the limited success i decided to trial fit the plate work and... nothing really fitted so i took a few bits apart like the smoke box and tweaked bits and bobs to get it all square and sorted and now is sat on the table next to be in almost one piece ! its quite nice to see it in 1 piece again .. looks all squat and chubby again, rather than having a tiny boiler poked onto a set of frames,
I still have a way to go, successful steam trials are still just out of reach and there is some plate work to modify and a some paint to be done and tidy'd to get it all up together, but for now, its looking pretty and im kinda happy about that!
ill get some pictures up soon, but for now that's about it! im gunna go play with bits of Burrell for the afternoon!
Laters!
Its first steam test was the other day, and i had limited success, i had issues with the boiler priming, so after much swearing a cursing the boilers been descaled, cleaned and well flushed and then it had a second test, this was better but still not perfect, so another flush out and a few minor tweaks and we are ready to go again!
I spent most of last night re-building it again, after the limited success i decided to trial fit the plate work and... nothing really fitted so i took a few bits apart like the smoke box and tweaked bits and bobs to get it all square and sorted and now is sat on the table next to be in almost one piece ! its quite nice to see it in 1 piece again .. looks all squat and chubby again, rather than having a tiny boiler poked onto a set of frames,
I still have a way to go, successful steam trials are still just out of reach and there is some plate work to modify and a some paint to be done and tidy'd to get it all up together, but for now, its looking pretty and im kinda happy about that!
ill get some pictures up soon, but for now that's about it! im gunna go play with bits of Burrell for the afternoon!
Laters!
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