nice roller man , I got a 2 inch scale burrell road loco from a museum in Washington dc its got a lot of issues but I'm working them out, I think it was built at a college university by some engineering class
Thanks for the info. The mechanical water pump doesn't seem to be filling the boiler up very well. How can I improve the pumping and is it worth installing a hand water pump?
There is a valve on the tender floor that can be seen at 3:45. The pump runs when ever the crankshaft is turning. This has a two outputs one to the boiler one to the bypass valve. When the valve is open water is returned to the tank, when closed it is forced into the boiler.
A syringe with flexible pipe should do it. May I suggest joining a local Model Engineering group. There will probably be someone who owns a MInnie who will be more help than I can.
@@DLRTV And I like red flywheel on the steam roller! what sort of flywheel is this called? It's solid, it has 3 very small holes in it and I remember there are some flywheels like this that are black too! Take a look at these videos ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SUeSHM2IBuE.html & ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AHiNtwwkC7M.html
I use welsh anthracite beans, it gives a nice hot fire and burns very cleanly. You do need a large firebar spacing for plenty of air to make it burn right.
@@mattseymour8637 Welsh steam coal won't work in them due to it expanding as it burns. The roller wont burn it at all, the 4 inch engine will tolerate it but it doesn't like it