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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: Weedensteam on February 08, 2021, 10:00:57 am

Title: Re: Laging Steam lines
Post by: komet163b on February 11, 2021, 12:04:37 pm

Good PM from Brooklyn...

  Regarding steam line lagging.  Has anyone tried using
cotton cord, say 1/8" (sash cord), as lagging?  It does
insulate ....some.  I did cover it with aluminum sticky
tape. 

  So, I'd like some lagging that works a bit better without
looking fat and out-of-proportion when on these steam lines.
Video link follows...

https://youtu.be/5mI_QMTbjw8

  Is it me or does this lagging make the steam line look fat?
It's ok, you can be brutal.

Wayne

Title: Re: Laging Steam lines
Post by: Tony Bird on February 11, 2021, 10:04:16 am

Hi Frank,

It is the system I use and then paint them white. It does work you can just about keep you finger on the lagging when the pipe has steam in it.

Take care Tony.

Title: Re: Laging Steam lines
Post by: txlabman on February 09, 2021, 06:50:20 pm

Good idea.

Thanks Frank.

Title: Re: Laging Steam lines
Post by: Woe is me on February 08, 2021, 12:49:36 pm

Oh yeah, the whip finish. It's also used on old hickory shafted golf clubs. To finish tying
fly's and to wrap guides on fishing poles and fly rods. I never thought of lagging steam
lines.

Title: Re: Laging Steam lines
Post by: Nick on February 08, 2021, 10:06:05 am

This guy is a little out there, but he’s made a few videos on wrapping handles. Looks like a similar technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afi1iXuMiBg

Title: Laging Steam lines
Post by: Weedensteam on February 08, 2021, 10:00:57 am

This is from a woodworking forum on making handles but same principle would work for steam lines:
https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/threads/whip-finish.225081/#post-2155562