[modeleng] Boilers was RE: Re: Donington

  • From: "Tim Rickard" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:25:35 +0000

Not just LBSC Clif.

Martin Evans' original Jubiliee drawing has an unflanged throatplate and his 
original Springbok has the wet header tapped straight into the tubeplate 
without a bush.

Still it saves on buying prunes.

>From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>Hi All,
>
>One of the snags with LBSC Boilers was that he quite happily drilled and
>tapped the boiler barrel to fix handrails and feeds and just did the same
>thing for some of the fixings on the Backhead.
>All of these should be bushed. The idea of something like a 1/4" X 40 
>thread
>into 1/8" thick copper scares the hell out of me.
>
>Regards
>
>Clif


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