Prices on our shelves and online don't include sales tax; it's added at the register.Hmmmm. I've just found a UK supplier for a WeeBee safety valve and suitable adaptor, only to find that there is no mention of the fact that the prices don't include VAT until I get to the checkout. Is this usual?
Tac, now you've extracted the faulty valve is there any indication of the reason for failure?All sorted, thanks - old pal Dave Mees has made me an adaptor and provided me with a replacement safety valve...
I'll show you what happens between now and fitting it when I make the 'fix-it' video later on.
Thanks for watching.
Neil, I guess it was just plain ol' worn out, a bit like me. As there was no way of getting to it, it wasn't possible to do the little drop of oil on the stem trick that any exposed safety valve design can undergo. Fourteen years of good running is not to be sniffed at, especially as it would be in almost constant steam on any given open day. I'm not complaining, really. I'll just pass on the words of Dave Mees, who knows a thing or two about this kind of live steaming. He reckons that the two faces of the dome - the top and the flange, were likely never actually painted, as the front sand dome and flanges are. So over time the two brass surfaces 'welded' together in a dezincification process and would likely never have been separable.Tac, now you've extracted the faulty valve is there any indication of the reason for failure?
Prices on our shelves and online don't include sales tax; it's added at the register.
Yes, a bit of a pain, but it prevents the b-st-rds from hiding their exactions as they used to.
Quebec is not a province comme les autres.I could never figure out why, in the days of gouge and screw, a can of soda in Quebec cost 15c more than it did in Ontario.
Thanks, Paul. I know it seemed drastic, but that's all I could do, given the circumstances.tac, I so glad it's sorted
Well, I can breathe again. Chemical welding would explain why you couldn't remove the dome. Your "keeper collar" sounds like a good way to prevent the problem in the future. Is this difficulty in removing parts common for live steam locomotives?
I don't think so, they're not usually as easy to dismantle than electric or battery locos obviously, but I don't think I know of anything like this happening.Well, I can breathe again. Chemical welding would explain why you couldn't remove the dome. Your "keeper collar" sounds like a good way to prevent the problem in the future. Is this difficulty in removing parts common for live steam locomotives?
As said elsewhere very unlikely and unlucky for this to happen to Tac. I did have a Steamcraft Mountaineer 2-6-2 as on the Ffestiniog many moons ago. After a long time not out of use it would not budge at all when steamed up. Was sold on as non working to a collector of such things. When he finally got it to bits it appeared that the Ally Piston rod had reacted with the Brass Cylinder liner and thus was completely seized up. This is a very rare occurrence and live steam manufacturers these days would likely not make such errors of material use.Well, I can breathe again. Chemical welding would explain why you couldn't remove the dome. Your "keeper collar" sounds like a good way to prevent the problem in the future. Is this difficulty in removing parts common for live steam locomotives?