All looks good John.
One thing, I've never known anyone to fix in the smokebox tube plate in
before having the inner firebox assembly fixed in by the foundation ring and
crown stays. It does seem a good idea though, only got to do round the tubes
at this heating session, might save burning tubes or overcooking the flux.
What heat do you use, looks neat silver soldering. We finally got
oxy/acetylene this year, but only use oxy/propane for boilerwork, cleaner
flame. Much nicer than a 2944 burner on full chat.
Simon
ps, do you have any more photos of your built up cylinders, they look
interesting


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Baguley" <baggo@...>
To: <halfinchlivesteamforum@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:55 PM
Subject: [Half inch live steam forum] Helen Longish - progress so far
> Hi all,
> I've just posted a few more photos to show progress made so far. I'm
> just starting on the valve gear and hopefully will be running on air
> by Xmas. The boiler work so far has been ok'd by Steve Eaton and all
> that remains to do now is assemble the firebox into the outer shell
> and fit the stays. I'm looking at hopefully having the loco running in
> time for Rugby next year but we'll see!
> John