{"id":925,"date":"2023-02-13T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:57:15","slug":"rebuilding-the-shay-part-8-setting-things-on-fire-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-8-setting-things-on-fire-again","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Shay (part 9) \u2013 setting things on fire again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More work on my Steamlines Shay locomotive<\/a>. At the weekend, I took it to the outdoor line at Brambleton model railway club, and it attracted a lot of interest. With much assistance from David Jones, we managed to get a bit of flame inside. Initially, we did this by moving the smokebox forward and pushing a lighter into the gap. We weren’t able to raise steam, but after a few minutes, lots of things on the smokebox started to bubble, and some of the detailing fell off … it seems that the chap who originally built it had used soft-solder. We also concluded that the locomotive has never been fired – it certainly hasn’t ever seen any heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This evening, I had another go. The flame lights, but goes out again – sometimes after a few moments, sometimes after a bit longer. (a short video here shows this in action https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/FLPnBNLTUR8<\/a>). I tried various combinations of moving the jet backwards, or forwards, restricting the air flow (with the dodgy-looking collar that I added – see pic below) but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. After half an hour and getting no pressure in the boiler, I tried something else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once everything had cooled down, I removed the boiler and lit the burner on its own. The picture below shows the flame in action (resting on a spare piece of steel to protect the frames – they are probably soft-soldered as well). This is normally inside the tube inside the boiler – bit it’s fascinating to see it in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next step is to find out why the flame keeps going out. Watch this space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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