What would you do?

If you can find an another Barclay with a good boiler you might be able to swap them ?

 

If you can find another Barclay with a good boiler you would be restoring that one.

 

Can't fault you on the above, John, but I've made a note of your budget prices for the next time I invite you to tender.

 

Easy answer-give it to me!


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Appreciate the massive insight you've given me! For once I've actually learned something this weekend I intend to at least get it off the ground an on to a couple of sleepers before winter kicks in. We had our first frosty morning today and it'll only get worse! The frame and motion are in relatively good condition considering, tyres don't seem to need any work and the cylinders are in good nick. We pilfered a few parts from it for the restoration of our other Barclay so new brasses and injectors are now needed. I believe a few years ago the thickness was tested, although I don't know the results, it'll be something to ask one of the older members.

Recently we were given the chance to acquire another Barclay from the local area, although no tests on the boiler could be undertaken, visual inspection it seemed to be in very good condition. What stopped us was the public! As it is on display in the local area and kids have access to the footplate they put the stoppers on everything not wanting to lose it. I was spitting feathers! Wouldn't they prefer to see it in steam and actually ride on it instead of leaving it to the mercy of the elements (and children)?!

 

Hi,

After restoring 2 ex Thomas Muirs to working order, a Grant Richie & an Andrew Barclay Fife Flyer, getting the boiler thoroughly examined should be your number 1 priority, on both of the above boilers, there were c 100 broken stays in each, & these were not detected by the age old method of hammer testing, but by ndt test of each stay, something we now do on every boiler repair job. Both locos were ex NCB Fife, & they used threaded bar for the stays instead of the correct way of doing this. If your Barclay is one of the Fife Flyers, they very unusually for 4 coupled Barclays have backhead injectors, which could be very difficult to source?

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Long time since I've been involved with ultrasonic testing and I've never tried doing it on threaded bar but I would have thought that you would struggle to get a back wall echo to prove any continuity of material and every thread would indicate a flaw.
Continuously threaded stays were once quite common, not just with the NCB.

 

Trust me Steve it can be done & has proved very effective.

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I'm aware that it is done. Technology has moved on but I still have niggles about what the results are. Were those c100 broken stays proved to be broken when you replaced them 'cos that's an awful lot?

 

Sadly, all of the ones shown up as broken by testing, were actually broken, but had not shown up on the traditional hammer testing, it was only when we cut out the outer wrapper that we initially discovered the first previously undetected broken stays, hence the decision to test differently.

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