"Misfits"? It's not easy being locked in a Steam Age time warp!! Al Yeah Al, I am in that time warp too, and I bought 17 pounds of brass air cylinder barrel today at the scrap yard. About 2" bore w/1/8" thick walls 2 feet long and I have no idea what I am going to do with it, but I bought it anyway. Maybe make a pair of long stroke stern wheeler engines out of some of it. Build me a nice RC steamboat about 4 feet or longer and sail it on Reelfoot lake. Could make a side wheeler also and still have tubing left over. REDNECK, the crazed Tennessee Machinist. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.