Hi Greg,
Firstly let me thank Calin for uploading the photos. I've been having no end of trouble with my pc, even viewing photos, and videos on this machine. Calin suggested a site to help there too, and..... DA Da!! It was the software from my Samsung phone that was causing me all of this trouble.
To the boilers;
I have just used the timber lagged boiler for entertainment thus far. Driving the odd static engine. It steams very well to me, but, don't forget to read my signature, that is for real. I know a lot about some things, a little about a lot of things, and steam comes into the latter topic. Chimney/funnel lengths are not my strong suit. I had thought of making a longer one though, just for the aesthetics. The Mendip looks great with that tall bloke, so, I thought I'd do something similar.
The Mendip has just been used, thus far for fun too. So, I haven't got the feedwater things set-up yet. You would know as well as me how short those "Steam ups" have been with it. I'm working on it. I am going to try a water injector that I bought a long time ago, and never got to experiment with it. If that fails, I'll use the hand pump, alone for a while, until I get a Stuart steam pump I have here linked up. I have some PM-R clack valves fitted now, and I use their globe valves, and fittings extensively too. They look very nice scale wise I think. I'm altering a couple to flange fittings at the moment, which look even better, but..... let's see if I can do it first.
All in good time, no rush.
Cheers, Neil.
