I finally got the last piece machined for my Ruby rear truck and put it
all together. Ah ready for DH!!!
Well maybe I had better fire it up on the bench to make sure every
thing is working. After all the normal preperations to steam and firing up
the boiler I noticed small bubbles forming in the paint on the smoke box
door. This paint is supposed to withstand 1000 degrees --- Wrong!! well now
I have to re-paint that. As steam pressure begin to build I noticed water
leaking around one of the unions for the pressure guage. Attempts to tighten
it failed to stop the leak and giving one more little tweek broke the tiny
little tube to the gauge off right at the union with a resulting blast of
steam into the cab. Now I have to repair that too. Of course I don't have
another one of those unions so I must adapt another to fit. Well a little
machine work here and there and solder (silver braze) the thing together.
Oops I am out of gas! Off to get a refill. I have finally got the thing
soldered together and will put things back together today and again try
lighting this critter off again.
It was not a great day!!!!! Hope today goes better
Salty
