Member postings for Alan Morgan 2

Jason and Dave,

I think you are right about having 1 mechanical and 1 hand pump. I think that's the way I'll go too

Alan

Hi all, I'm the Alan mentioned by Jason a few posts back. he's right I was talking about Dave Greenham's experiences with his boiler inspector and it spooked me a bit.

Now Dave's inspector had made him put another bush into the boiler so that he has two entry points for water feed to the boiler.

2012 regs 6.6 States

" Boiler water arrangements shall be by at least two independent means ( two of each, or a combination of , hand pump, injector, mechanical pump etc) a single boiler inlet with two check valves is acceptable"

I think this speaks for itself!!!

I am nowhere near as far along as Dave with my Pyrte and I plan to have a sit on trailer with gas cylinder and water tank in it. I will then run a gas pipe to the burner and a single water feed to two hand pumps in the tender ( with check valves).

I want to use hand pumps as , if I use an injector or axle/crankshaft pump I will need to arrange for a return feed to the tank in the trailer, yet another pipe!! At least with hand pumps there is no need for a return.

For those that are not familiar with the layout of PYRTE, It is a very simple pot boiler as George has explained, with no need for boiler tubes and fancy fireboxes a' la locos. It's just a piece of 4" tube with a plate at each end and a PB stay through the middle.

On the back end are 3 bushes.2 for the sight tube and one for a blowdown valve at the bottom. The steam feed is taken from the top fitting on the sight tube . The boiler water feed is also on there. My question is this, as the top sight tube is getting pretty busy , would it be ok to feed my boiler , from the hand pumps, utilising a T peice for the feed and blowdown valve?

Regards

Alan M