It should be OK as long as the weld is well away from the stay. It won't leak but the cup won't be re-useable. If you had to do any amount of work...
But that's the way they do flexibles in the States. The Big Boy has the same.
Meiningen don't appear to use screw caps; they appear to be welded. In fact, they must be welded as there is no way of turning them.
In the States, while the cups are welded to the boiler, the caps are screwed into the cups, potentially allowing stay renewal without changing the...
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...
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...
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