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[Bee]

What some of the 16mm railway blokes do is have a suitable valve into which the end of a syringe full of water fits. You easily make enough pressure to squirt it in without dropping the boiler pressure.

[gondolier88]

Against 50/60psi without leaking? Are you sure?

[HS93 (RIP)]

Peter,
       the team that ran that boat in the 24 hour Tone Valley event were: Mike Porter, Ian Holland, Jerry Watson and myself. I still have some photo's here of the event, it was great fun.

These Pictures may ring a bell then one has the hand pump and tank at the side and on another you can see what I presume is the quick connect,

by the way if you want 50/60 psi connectors the model Jet people use them and high pressure mini hose

peter

[Underpressure]

WOW! That brings back memories.

Ian built a wooden board with a large copper tank (with a lid) and the hand pump. We got the ladies in the 'mess' to fill up a flask with boiling water, so when we pumped the boiler full, the water was hot. We were able to get the boat straight back on the water, but it took two or three laps to bring the boiler up to full pressure.

The only problem we had in the whole event was in the early hours, when the boat hit something underwater which damaged the steering servo. We managed to get it in and Ian and I changed the servo in minutes flat, without that we would have got past 45 miles. We did have a great time though.

Neil

[Bee]

The 16 mm locos probably only run 20-30 psi, as does my 5in loco if the fire is low. Not many boats need 60psi do they though I haven't checked back to see which type this thread started off about .

[HS93 (RIP)]

WOW! That brings back memories.

Ian built a wooden board with a large copper tank (with a lid) and the hand pump. We got the ladies in the 'mess' to fill up a flask with boiling water, so when we pumped the boiler full, the water was hot. We were able to get the boat straight back on the water, but it took two or three laps to bring the boiler up to full pressure.

The only problem we had in the whole event was in the early hours, when the boat hit something underwater which damaged the steering servo. We managed to get it in and Ian and I changed the servo in minutes flat, without that we would have got past 45 miles. We did have a great time though.

Neil

Ive got anothe 20 pictures of the boat but all at funny angels so I can build one at some time, I have the hull and superstructure on the shelf, but it is down the list.

[Underpressure]

Were those pictures taken at Cheddar? I think you took them before we did the 24 hour race, as I recall the Christian Brunnings and Borkum being Cheddar demo models.

I wonder whatever happened to all those lovely demo boats Cheddar had? John offered me a Jan, with Proteus power plant fitted for sensible money, but I was not that much of a Proteus fan, although the Marie Felling they had, which originally had the Pegasus V4 engine fitted was superb.

I wonder where all those boats are now? I do hope they are still in use.

Neil