While waiting for the Bachmann Jinty, I'm having a go at detailing an old K's (I think) condensing pannier. On some model examples on one side of the smokebox there's a casting of some kind of feed apparatus. Does anyone know if any manufacturer still makes a casting of this feed in OO? I've not had much success so far, and it looks like previous modellers made do with modified Westinghouse pumps.
Mark.
Definitely not a Westinghouse pump!
The device was actually a Weir pump to feed the hot water from the tanks
- hot because the exhaust steam that was fed into the tanks to condense it heated it up quickly - into the boiler. Injectors don't like hot water, hence the need for a different form of boiler feed.
There's a very good close-up picture of the Weir pump on page 207 in Russell's Pictrial Record of Great Western Engines Vol. 2.
Mark Dickers>
"Dick Ganderton"
Would that it was - easier to scratchbuild...
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Thanks. A bit more searching, and then I'll have use that reference. Ho hum.
Mark.
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