[modeleng] Re: automatic draincocks

Ken,

A clubmate tried these devices a while ago. There were two drawbacks. 
Firstly they were not 100% reliable and secondly it was not possible to 
leave the the draincocks open when raising steam or when storing the engine 
after injecting oil in the cylinders.
He reverted back to the conventional arrangement fairly rapidly.

Regards,


Barrie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Swales" <kenwillowbend@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: automatic draincocks


> Hi All
>
> A friend of mine has a Massie fitted with automatic draincocks.  I thought 
> of replacing my own draincocks with automatic ones so took one off his 
> engine to examine it.
>
> To me it just looks like acheck valve on its side.  Is this right or am I 
> being too simplistic.
>
> Any thoughts.
>
> Ken
>
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