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What's your thoughts on this idea...

Post by Lner fan Sam » Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:46 pm

Hi all

What are you thoughts on this. Say you took a standard boiler and a inline lubricator. The normal set up is the steam leaves the boiler through the regulator and travels through the lubricator and to the cylinders.

Now say you put the lubricator in a tender and there is flexible piping between the regulator and the lubricator and between the lubricator and the cylinders. Would the cylinders still receive sufficient lubrication despite the flexible piping?

Just wondering weather it would work or not...
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Post by DVT Dweller » Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:57 pm

I think your main problem would the steam cooling off and starting to condense before reaching the cylinders.
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Post by laurence703 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:24 pm

Why not move the gas tank to the tender and put the lubricator where the gas tank was?
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Post by kandnwlr » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:28 pm

DVT Dweller:100138 wrote:I think your main problem would the steam cooling off and starting to condense before reaching the cylinders.
Sadly true (and not just with something the size of a NGG16) :cry:
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