Re: Hood Hinge and Windshield Items Request
Posted by:
jschoenly (IP Logged)
Date: January 07, 2015 02:06PM
Cold spell here in PA. It was 9 deg coming home from a friends last night at 10PM. Been in the 20's and staying cold. I don't care for the weather guesser's much, just judge my clothing needs when I take the dog our in the morning....
On the boiler - There's more to it that just water beads that I hadn't started off with mentioning. The boiler filled pretty slowly and has drained very slow. It could be crude in a fitting or valve, but to get water flowing it took nearly 300 lbs to "start the flow". I have a commercial style hand hydro pump and with my ~40 psi well pushing water, the boiler took quite some time to fill. Again it could be in the fittings, but I suspect a lot of scale and corrosion to be in the boiler which would plague things ongoing. I can't get the wrapper off to see the wire with it still installed, but this is an original drawn shell Stanley boiler stamped 19114 and can't see why it would not be from the same era of the car.
Additionally, it was a steel tubed boiler with the trepanning on the bottom sheet for the welds. It seems in the retubing they chucked it up in a lathe and skim cut the bottom sheet as there are progressive circular marks on the flattened area (low spots of the trepanning). It has a copper or brass or nickel alloy set of tubes in it, heavily swaged over against the tube sheets (so far so that there are cracks to the swaged section).
Long story short, with all the down sides - I'd rather not start a losing battle or at least a painful one. So I'm going to be removing the boiler in favor of a new unit. I want to drive the car, not just display it so I think it's for the best.
It's nice to see that so much of the piping is so original though. It seems to have all the correct checks and parts where they would have been setup as depicted from new. The only piping modifications I can see on this car (under the hood, dash, or frame) are the addition of a reflex glass under the hood in the front drivers corner and a small pressure gauge at the bottom of the steam automatic showing the fuel pressure in the line to the vaporizer. It's pretty cool going over this car and I don't plan to modify much of anything on it.