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WW&F No. 10 - Official Work Thread

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Gordon Cook:
I've been working on refurbishing the spare Metropolitan injector for # 10 and can report pretty good progress.
For those who have pondered the magic that occurs inside of one of these devices here is a picture of it in pieces:

As you can see there's a lot going on in there!

The shiny parts are the two new tubes that I made to replace the damaged old ones. The internal valves which control the steam flow have been refinished and I'll be renewing a couple of the outside linkage parts to reduce the play.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks our fireman's side injector will no longer be the PITA that it is now.

Steve Zuppa:
Nice work, Gawdon. 'Course, having an injector that works all the time  will take all the mystery away. Never did like mysteries, anyway.
Steve

Mike Fox:
Gordon, Thanks for posting. I never knew they were that extensive. Looks like a lot of work.

Ira Schreiber:
Back many moons ago when I was at the controls in the cab, we carried a gallon jug of cold water and a ball pein hammer. These were standard tools for getting a balky injector to pick up water. Crude, but effective.

Ira Schreiber

John McNamara:
I see that a Makita cordless drill and a test tube are required tools for this operation.  ;)

-John

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