{"id":902,"date":"2022-07-15T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2024-05-05T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:30:13","slug":"rebuilding-the-shay-part-7-setting-things-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-7-setting-things-on-fire","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Shay (part 7) \u2013 setting things on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have been following my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-6-fiddly-bits\">previous posts<\/a>, you will know that the boiler and gas tank are both sound. A friend from my local model engineering society encouraged me to try lighting the loco to see if it will run.<br><br>One loco that I own is lit by applying a flame to the chimney. The flame blows back into the burner flue.  Another is lit by opening the smokebox door and poking a lighter in there. The Shay&#8217;s smokebox door doesn&#8217;t open. However lighting the chimney didn&#8217;t have the intended consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5584-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-905\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>I asked online, and another Shay owner tells me that the loco is lit from under the smokebox. There is a small hole. I tried this, and get a nice blue flame around the base of the smokebox. Again not really what we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-907\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5587-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Apparently the fix is to add a sleeve to the burner air intake (like on a Bunsen burner). That involves removing the gas tank, which involves removing the Osmotor, which involves removing the lubricator. To make this easier, I intend to take the opportunity to put a union joint in the gas pipe to make it easier to remove the jet without doing a full strip-down-and-rebuild. Another job for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Justin \u2013 15 July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following my previous posts, you will know that the boiler and gas tank are both sound. A friend from my local model engineering society encouraged me to try lighting the loco to see if it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-7-setting-things-on-fire\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,71],"tags":[27,72,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}