[Pete Thornton]

Now for the fun with those big cylinders trying to saturate your fire with lots of condensate


It sounds as if you have the same problem as my FWRR 'Ruby' and other similar locos. We found that the bore of the stack was critical. One of our burned-finger brethren drilled out a standard 'Ruby' stack and found it improved the fire situation. Using that info, I replaced mine (long tall FWRR stack, 1/4" ID - a bit tough to bore out.) with a 7/16th" ID stack from Trackside Details. It solved the problem.

The issue seems to be that the fire needs a through-flow of air. When a big glob of condensate comes out of the chuff pipe in the stack, it blocks the flow and the fire goes out. A wider stack enables it to breath around the blobs. [Maybe the locos need a good hearty st4eam blower under the stack to disperse the blobs!]

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[Pete Thornton]

I can't get mine any larger than the picture on my first posting otherwise it is blocked

Trevor,

It looks as if you are adding pictures via the editor using the 3 boxes at the bottom of the 'compose post' screen. Yes, they are very restrictive, and the size limit is a bit arbitrary - it wouldn't accept my pic that my computer says is only 80K.

The solution is to find somewhere to up-load them first - and then post the link to the pic, like this:

[*img]http://gold.mylargescale.com/petethornton/photos/Misc2008/1102452064871.jpg[*/img]

Without the "*", we get this: (your pic, 'save'-d and doubled in size, then uploaded to my MLS Gold space.)

"Somewhere" might be the storage space that your internet provider offers as part of your access deal - comcast.net gives me about 3GB and I put temporary web pages there; e.g. 'for sale' items. Other places include the free photo sites, such as google/picasa, which let you save a photo and then link to it.

Of course, the BEST place to upload your photos is the MyLargeScale.com Gold member space. Someone has to pay Shad to keep this site going...

And try this MLS Thread on Posting Pictures.

Finally, if you want to post a really gorgeous pict and don't want to be limited to 640x480 (forum limit) then you post the URL of the stored pic, like this:

[*url]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jl-RFo6VUnk/SO44X4-UDfI/AAAAAAAABN4/zAA4_fQcoj0/s1600-h/AL87-119B+DSP%26P+%2351+LIVE+STEAM.jpg[*/url]

or, without the "*" so the link works: Accucraft DSP&P 2-8-0.