Today's work was to mount the regulator stuffing box on the side of the smokebox. Also a drive rod was made with a 5/32" stainless spindle.
The position was determined off the spindle and a paper template to help centrepunch the oval shaped hole in the smokebox. There was an additional challenge to dodge the existing holes. These were plugged up with some 3/32" copper rivets.
The bottom four 10BA screws hold it to the smokebox, the top four are dummies screwed into the oval flange only as there was going to be minimal depth of thread in the smokebox.
Happy steaming!
Nigel
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