Water for our locos
- steamer68
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Water for our locos
With me being new to this hobby is it best to use destilled water or am I able to the water from a kettle which has been boiled for our boilers. Any advice will be greatly accepted.
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Re: Water for our locos
Boil it for a bit, then run it through a filter (paper coffee filter should do). That will separate out the limescale.
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Re: Water for our locos
Thanks Busted Bricks for replying to my question that's easy enough done.
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Re: Water for our locos
Roundhouse provide good advice regarding water usage in live steam locos:
http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/tech.htm#water
http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/tech.htm#water
Re: Water for our locos
I live in a very hard water area, the chalk hills of West Dorset, so filtered rain water does for me.
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Re: Water for our locos
We have a small de humidifier so I will be using the water that collects in the tank from that at least I have a safe source of water which I can bottle up for further steam ups.
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Kevin
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Re: Water for our locos
Just watch out for other contaminants like fluff and hair!
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Re: Water for our locos
Dehumidified water, strained through a pair of the wife's tights is what I use. (It is best to remove the legs from the tights first.)
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Re: Water for our locos
Doesn't that leave 2 very large holes? Or did you mean...
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Re: Water for our locos
Ah, tights and railways always seem to crop up.
I use a pair with a hoover to pick up scatter material that has not glued properly so it can be reused.
Again, best to ask the owner of tights first before using and then keeping forever in your toolbox somewhere and then you get funny looks from people who you help out with tools later on in life...
I use a pair with a hoover to pick up scatter material that has not glued properly so it can be reused.
Again, best to ask the owner of tights first before using and then keeping forever in your toolbox somewhere and then you get funny looks from people who you help out with tools later on in life...
Re: Water for our locos
Hi all.
I use filtered (3 paper coffee filters together) rainwater. To start with i had trouble collecting enough at any one time but one evening i left out in the garden 3 of those fold up garden chairs that you can pickup in Wilkos at 2 for £12. In the morning i had enough collected in the seats to filter and fill a 2L. Lemonade bottle. Job done.
Just keep it in a cool dark cupboard.
D.
I use filtered (3 paper coffee filters together) rainwater. To start with i had trouble collecting enough at any one time but one evening i left out in the garden 3 of those fold up garden chairs that you can pickup in Wilkos at 2 for £12. In the morning i had enough collected in the seats to filter and fill a 2L. Lemonade bottle. Job done.
Just keep it in a cool dark cupboard.
D.
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