Fowler 16341 Restoration Part 7 - Boiler 

Ooooh, now I know why I'm so drawn to y'all - "Time for a cup o' tea" (mug in my case). ;-) Another WONDERFUL video.

Very good video showing the hard work to get this old lady going again.

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic: Thank you for rescuing and restoring such a great old time witness. As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all involved people.

More excellent work folks!

For a bit of fun, when you get a "deteriorated" fire box stay out, soak it, in a fairly strong mix of CLR and water. Ends up looking like swiss cheese. We used an Annular cutter, to drill broken bolts and stays. Lot quicker, ( read easier) than using a drill.

Awesome work once again. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Great work and video! Really liked how you alternated between the drawings and then the footage of the area being discussed.

Super educational and fascinating, thanks for the laborious effort of showing us all the inner bits and bobs and how their quality is determined. Great work all!

Happy New Year. .Very interesting to watch .You're dedication on these old Engines is remarkable this goes for all the people who restore these Beautiful Engines .Thanks for showing the Very detailed work involved .

Fascinating. Really easy to follow, interesting and entertaining. Can’t wait for the next one

Beautifully explained and great to watch 👍

We took our tubes out threw the throttle packing gland hole in the back head, much more room. Of course we purchased a tool to cut the tunes on the inside of each tube sheet so only a 3inch tube end had to be knocked out.

Totally enjoyed that, well done.

Great work and very interesting - Thanks for posting.

in the US it is common to have one larger hole, a king hole to be able to pull them out easier. not universal though.

Brilliant stuff most enjoyable

You look really funny coming out of the boiler Simon 🤣

Amazing that the boiler materials were as good as they are. Great vid easy to follow. Did you find any grooving just above the Foundation Ring?

enjoyed that, great camera work and narration is interesting

Kinda thought the tube removal was done the hard way. They make torch cutting tips just for cutting boiler tubes out. Just cut it off at the inside of the tube past the flue sheet; may have to do it on both ends. Looks like the tubes could have been removed through the manhole.

Very enjoyable thanks

Nice

Im surprised that you didnt use a tube cutter to remove the tubes considering that they cant be reused. We retubed a large marine boiler a few years ago and the fitter made a tool which just fitted inside the tube head with an adjustable cutting head which simply cut the tube wall about an inch or so inside the tube plate. This left us to collapse the tube end and punch it through. Saved a lot of grunt work and hands.

Its saved!

Hi, I am new to this channel, who is Jenny and is she related to any one of team. How did she get involved in the project and does she have a working history as a "tradesman". Regards from South Africa

Will you sandblast the interior of the boiler and firebox sheets and studs to clean the surface of rust?

Why werent you using the hot wrench to remove them tubes

What is the state of this project now

Why don’t you just cut out a section from the middle of the boiler tubes and then just drive then inward, from the end plates, toward the center of the firebox? It seems to me that you’d then only need to drive them a couple of inches to remove them, rather than forcing the entire length through.

Doesnt the Fowler Boiler have a Keyhole tube in the bottom rack of flues? Knock the ferrul out and follow up with the rest . Damaging the flue sheet with the process you are incorporating now. You are making so difficult.

Fascinating stuff !! I've heard the 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 of all these components but it's interesting to see them 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢. I'm 𝐧𝐨𝐭 claustrophobic but inside the boiler is a place I 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 be going, especially with the dome-hole being the only egress. I don't think I would physically fit, so I'm safe enough.😁 I'm not at all familiar with the internals of a loco boiler: is this one in 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 overall condition, excellent, or poor? I would assume it's pretty poor, compared to a newly refurbished, 10-year ticketed loco but, for an 𝐮𝐧-restored loco, what state is it in?

Think I’d have made a styrofoam box as long as the fire tubes and tossed them in to shrink before replacing them.

unless you are reusing the tubes which is doubtfully after you bashed the crap out of them, why didn't you just cut the just inside and extract a short piece of tube, that's how we do it on boilers I retube, no need to extract the whole tube which is covered in scale, makes no sense and a crapload of work for no reason.