1" Little Engines Camelback 0-4-0 Steam Locomotive

I'm posting this as Chuckie is lagging on posting, and we are overseeing him on this project.

Edited by PhilC - Jan 31 2010 at 4:39am

whos comming down this weekend?

I will bring the acid down to soak the injectors  and check valves on both this and Mark's loco.

I'll be there and have Wyatt in tow with me, I will bring the valves and some fittings, tap/dies. We will see how far we get. I will bring my welder for marks' track shelf thing. I also need to make a road trip down to the old so cal club site at the Lomita site, as I got asked to get some sizes and photos of the tool box on the caboose for a man building one in 1.5, that lives up north. I haven't been there in som time so I thought it would be fun.

Edited by Steve C - Jan 30 2010 at 7:49am

I did the boiler test and it looks good, but we could not get the check valve for the axle pump to seat. After playing with it for some time we removed it. Tim has a new one but it's a little different so Tim's going to make some fittings so it will work. I'm thinking that had a lot to do with the axle pump not working as it might have been blowing back pressure from the boiler. We did get it up to 165 psi and the fire box and front sheet didn't have any leaks, so I'd say its good to go. We just need to get the plumbing cleaned up and check valves working and retest it to get a pass tag. I got the pop off valve cleaned and tested and it's set at 110 -115 psi which might be a little high, as I don't think the little injector will work at that much pressure, but we'll see. I have taken the injector home and some of the plumbing to clean and fix it. Looks like we need a new pressure gauge as the one on the loco is off on a curve. It's not bad on low psi, but its way off on high psi. I need to get one for Lulu so I will just get two. Steve helped with the boiler test, but it was starting to drive him nuts as it seemed like any thing on the plumbing we touched broke or came apart. But that's just the way it goes on old plumbing. The cylinder cocks I had did not fit and I don't think they will work so I m thinking of making some new ones. It looks like one of the grates is missing in the fire box and it looks like we need to make an ash pan. Hmmm...looks like the work list is getting bigger not smaller. Steve got the shag 4-4-0 out and I helped him give It a boiler  test. We found that  the top of the steam dome needs to be resealed and the whistle valve needs to be cleaned as we could only get it up to 120 psi before the leaks on the top of the boiler made it look like a lawn sprinker, but same as the little loco the fire box and front sheet were dry which is a good sign. Looks like we will try to get that one up and running as it might be some fun to run.  It would be a bummer to put a bunch of time into it only to have Shags son sell it - what do we get out of it ?

Edited by Steve C - Feb 01 2010 at 10:38am