The Bluebird Project

Sounds possible that the tubes weren't expanded or caulked at the tube plate properly. It also sounds as though the boiler has hogged through a rush of cold air, which probably was enough to cool the tubes causing them to contract and weep at the front tube plate. In laymens terms, the tube plate is...

Generally the blower is used when the loco is either coasting or going downhill to maintain the draught, as the exhaust from the blastpipe isn't drawing the fire anymore. The blower is used in the excercise of regaining steam (obviously), but it could entail the whole fire being rebuilt if it has cl...

Look up L.D Porta or David Wardale. They virtually revolutionised the front end draughting system on steam locomotives, and quite late in the piece too. They squeezed just about everything they could have out of the simple expansion engine - well worth a look into. Blokes like Nigel Day and Shaun Mc...

It's pretty much directly into the valve chests, then to the cylinders and from there up the blastpipe. Unless the engine is a compound type, the expansion cycle is once only. On a compound engine on a locomotive, the steam is admitted to a small high pressure cylinder. The exhaust steam is then pas...

Trains, eh?

Clap your peepers on that:

I watched a couple of those vids during smoko at work. Got a few odd looks from people when they heard the air start winding up.

Wow, envy! I bet it would sound great played through my 1964 AC30 (by a better guitarist than me, I might add). It probably would! What do you usually plug into your AC30? Fender Tele, various Gordon Smiths and, when I want to pretend to be Nigel Tufnel, Musicman Axis SS. Love Telecasters. I traded...

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Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:19 pm

Nice. Gretsch, I presume?

Yup. It’s a heavily modified 1969 Anniversary.

Wow, envy!
I bet it would sound great played through my 1964 AC30 (by a better guitarist than me, I might add).

It probably would! What do you usually plug into your AC30?

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Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:33 pm

Servicing and restringing this old girl.

Nice. Gretsch, I presume?

Yup. It’s a heavily modified 1969 Anniversary.

Servicing and restringing this old girl.