more bit's finished

looking very nice indeed!!

Regards,
Tony

hi Simon I used a hacksaw make two cuts front and back of the tongue but about 1 mm narrower then the tongue , then use the hacksaw to cut out the middle ,three or four cuts as close together as you can get them . then you should be able to break of the small sections with a very small screwdriver now carefully file the slot until the tongue fits .it took me about 2 hours .

Useful to know cheers

we tried to run the engine on air today and this is our first engine when we put air in the boiler most of it sounds like it coming up the chimney and nothing no the pressure gauge . checked the valve all working ok and tight against the cylinder, any ideas as to what the problem might be would be more then welcome . many thanks .

engine all finished and steam test passed we should be doing our first rally in a few weeks , we will post some rally photos with a bit of luck .

Looks lovely, which is rally are you going to dip your feet into first ?

Great looking engine - very well finished.

Thank you we think she is lovely ,hopefully our first rally is wiston in sussex just waiting for our paper work to come ,so we might see you at a rally sometime .

mick 100 wrote:Thank you we think she is lovely ,hopefully our first rally is wiston in sussex just waiting for our paper work to come ,so we might see you at a rally sometime .

I'll be at Wiston so I'll look out for you, yep we are still waiting for our passes.

Was good to meet up and see your lovely engine shame about the priming but that will pass with time and more wash outs. Sunday could have been better weatherwise mind

thank you good to catch up with you to , yes have given the boiler a good wash out and sorting out lubricator
, so bring on round two .