Yes, they thought that we wouldn't notice: MEININGEN 0 NAT PRES RIVET COUNTERS 1
More likely they miscalculated the number of flexibles required (manufactured outside?) and used normal stays instead, away from the corners where...
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I was talking about the asymmetry!
It's only different by five stays though, not a huge difference. As for the reason.......
Same number of stays on each side but one more flexible on the LHS?
So a steel inner firebox with the boiler presumably built at Meiningen (I can't think of anywhere that builds newly designed boilers with steel...
On finding one of my monel stays, 5/8" is probably the initial size for a new firebox, not 1/2". 6106 was selected for preservation because it had...
Monel is tough stuff to machine. In about 1985 I made about 700 stays for 6106 using a Maiden Screwing Machine (I kid you not!) ex-Reading Signal...
A new firebox would have had 1/2" steel stays, at least on the GWR/WR. A change to copper was made at 3/4"; steel at this size will burn away and...
As you can see, I was only responding to a previous post.
But it would have been cylinder oil which would have been subjected to superheated steam anyway. Steam jacketing would also have allowed a...
In the twentieth century, Chapelon found, with 160A1, that with steam jacketing of all six HP and LP cylinders, i.e. using the steam to first heat...
Have they changed their minds about the inner firebox material? The last time I looked it was to be steel but now it seems less certain....
An updated list of locomotives built, rebuilt or influenced by Chapelon. Built/Rebuilt/Modified: 231 Est 051 to 073 23 231 PO 3701 to 3731 31...
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