STEAMING MY 7 1/4 INCH GAUGE BLACK FIVE MODEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 

I am saddened to hear that - please accept my Condolences {;-(((

Family comes first, I needed the money at the time towards the Mortgage deposit to buy the house that I sold last year }:-)))

Thank you }:-)))

Greetings from Corpus Christi.

I still have the hair, well some of it anyway, there is a clearing in the middle now :-)))

Enough room for a vegetable patch?

Probably enough for a small Shrubbery these days :-))))

My friend says "nobody is bald, they are just taller than most of their hair" :) I like that.

“First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. Is what came to mind when you said that! had a personal laugh then off to find the DVD!

It ran very well too - but alas I had to sell it to raise some money towards the house that I currently still live in .....{:-)))

Yes it was quite spectacular in a miniature sort of way }:-)))

For the cylinders I use high grade thick Steam Cylinder oil. These days I get it from www.halletoil.co.uk

@@keithappleton thank you Keith. I enjoyed your videos about the GWR loco modifications too. I am thinking of a 7 1/4" version of the 0-4-2. I wonder what issues such may have. I will go to the oil website and order.

It is still owned by the person that I sold it to, an it is stored at the Club I used to be a member of. The current owner fitted nameplates on it and painted the boiler banding.

The smallest Bahco spanner I have is about 6 inches long.

Not sure, I sold it in 1994 as far as I can remember . . .

Fair enough!

A Midland "Spinner" (with just two big driving wheels) in 5 inch gauge, A GWR "Manor" class in 5 inch gauge and a "Simplex" also in 5 inch gauge as well as my old 7 1/4 inch gauge "Tich" that I mentioned in the video..

? no idea ....

Hello Mike, I don't think it is: As far as I could find out, locomotive boilers with a fire-tube instead of a firebox, are sometimes referred to as "Vanderbilt" types. They are quite rare on full size engines as the tubes limits the grate size much much more than a fire box does. Also, the surface of a fire box is larger than that of fire tube, further limting the power of the boiler. This construction was an economy measure to dispense with the stay bolts around the firebox. These boilers often have a conical outer shell connecting two different barrel diameters - a large one around the fire tube to allow for a larger fire tube with a big grating, and a smaller one where the smoke tubes are. On the Black Fives, the boiler is also conical, but it has a rather large, normal firebox, so by these standards, this would not be a Vanderbilt boiler. Sorry Keith, I had to do it. Next time, I'll just take one of my yellow pills and sit in a corner untill the urge for lengthy explanations goes away.

7 1/4 inces between the wheel flanges. Yes it is a standard 7 1/4 inch gauge.

No ..... all things must pass . . . . . .

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