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Neidrauer Adventures Photo Album and Blog » Building a Live Steam Locomotive - the Mikado Project » Section 13 - Boiler
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3-Feb-10 The smokebox to boiler mounting band has been rolled, sized and welded together. We have had to adapt the blueprint plans to the boiler since the boiler is both not round and is undersize from the prints. We will use a wide 1-1/2" band on the Outside of both boiler and smokebox. The band will be welded onto the boiler and the drilled and tapped to the smokebox. Funny thing happened after welding the ends of the band--the band _shrunk_ in size. We had it clamped for a nice fit on the smokebox, but you could see daylight between the band at several places. Not so after the weld cooled! We have a shrink fit now!
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ExhibitPlus SmokeBoxBoilerMountingRing3Feb10 004

FILE NAME: SmokeBoxBoilerMountingRing3Feb10 004.jpg  |  DATE: 2/3/10 10:53 PM  |  CAMERA: Canon (Canon PowerShot G10)  |  RESOLUTION: 4416 x 3312  |  NATIVE FOCAL LENGTH: 6.1mm (35mm FOCAL LENGTH: 29mm)  |  FLASH: Flash fired, auto, red-eye reduction  |  EXPOSURE TIME: 1/60 sec  |  METERING MODE: Multi-segment  |  EXPOSURE MODE: Auto exposure  |  APERTURE: F2.8  |  ISO SETTING: 80

BoilerCleanouts_FirePanFitting24Mar10 003 BoilerCleanouts_FirePanFitting24Mar10 002 BoilerCleanouts_FirePanFitting24Mar10 001 BoilerBackBandnCleanouts16Mar10 003 BoilerBackBandnCleanouts16Mar10 001 BoilerBandingMounts10Mar10 002 BoilerBandingMounts10Mar10 001 BoilerBandingMounts3Mar10 002 BoilerRearSupportBracketWelding24Feb10 001 BoilerRearSupportBracketMounting17Feb10 002 BoilerRearSupportBracketMounting17Feb10 001 BoilerRearSupportBracket13Feb10 004 BoilerRearSupportBracket13Feb10 003 BoilerRearSupportBracket13Feb10 002 BoilerRings10Feb10 BoilerMounting6Feb10 BoilerMounting6Feb10 006 BoilerMounting6Feb10 004 BoilerMounting6Feb10 003 BoilerMounting6Feb10 002 BoilerMounting6Feb10 001 SmokeBoxBoilerMountingRing3Feb10 004 SmokeBoxBoilerMountingRing3Feb10 003 SmokeBoxBoilerMountingRing3Feb10 002 BoilerInspection13Jan10 003 BoilerPrep20Jan10 003 BoilerPrep20Jan10 002 BoilerPrep20Jan10 001 MikadoBoilerEndshot18Jul02 MikadoBoilerFireboxBottomView18Jul02 MikadoBoilerLongShot18Jul02 w1 w2 w3
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