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Put this beautiful yet simple miniature steam plant together.   Used bamboo and stained it and sealed it. Creates a nice quaint almost “zen” look against the black firebox.   Firebox has high temperature paint which cured in an oven at home.

Piped the pipework to match and kept square.  Put a small condenser cup at the exhaust port which works very well.

Maintains no leaks and out performs most my engines!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVGjeUhZrU

Very nice set up you have!!!

That's a super smooth #3 Travis and I do like the base board mate.

That's a super smooth #3 Travis and I do like the base board mate.

Thanks, Jim.  It is a bamboo slab with Laquer sealant.

Very nice set up you have!!!

Thanks, man!   

I wondered how long it would be before the "add Ons" started to appear. looks good.

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Nice setup.  It's fun to see it develop.
The video's and pix are excellent.

Now, as to your mod on the lower sightglass
fitting.  Did you just drill a hole, tap it
to your needs, and fit the parts?  I'm curious
as to how deeply into the sightglass fitting
the tube goes.  Doing it is a great idea and
I thank you for the close-ups.

Good work,
Wayne

Thank you, Wayne!   I appreciate your comments & enjoy your videos on YouTube.

To answer:

I used drill bits in steps.  Put the bottom sight glass holder in a vice, used Drill bits designed for drilling into metal, in steps. Started out with a 1/8, then moved my way up to 1/4” bit.  In steps creates a smoother drilling. Using oil of course helps.

After that, I used a 1/4” boiler bushing into the hole and soldered it using regular electronics solder.  That piece isn’t getting insanely hot so it won’t melt.

Had to do a few things to make sure everything was leakproof, but the end result worked out well.
 The fitting goes flush with the interior so it doesn’t obscure the banjo nut.


Hope this helps!