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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:36:53 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11376#msg-11376</link>
      <author>mike clark</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I forget stuff too!!

Mike]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:36:53 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11375#msg-11375</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been working on our 1914 Stanley roadster pump pit.  After getting everything squared up again, I installed new hard chrome water pump pistons.  Then I had a fit in getting the oil pump to register in the winker again.  First the oil pump drive road was 3/8&quot; too short and I had to make a longer drive rod.  I then had to get it pumping again.  It wouldn't show in the winker.  After a lot of fooling around includeing removing the winker glass to see that the lubrication was really getting that far, I finally remembered....  On the Sequoia National Park Tour, I had ran short on 600 W Steam cylinder oil and I had to use some synthetic 140 Wt. gear lube to get me home.  When 140 wt is hot, it became thinned out too much to make the winker glass wink.  Plus, it wasn't dark enough to see it in the winker anyway.  After using my wife's turkey baseter to suck all of the oil out of my oil reservoir, and refilling it with the proper 600 W oil, the winker is now operating again.  I am going to have to reset the oil flow to a slower rate as I had fiddled with the adjustment.  I turned it only two flats, but that makes a big difference.  I put about 20 miles on the roadster this afternoon and I enjoyed every second of it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:24:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11374#msg-11374</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Rolly...  Its time of year to get the water boiling again in our old steamers.  The Sequoia National Park would have been a lot more fun later in the year.  We have to go back to the big trees in the sunshine some year to see what we missed.  At the 3,000 foot level it was posted &quot;tire chains are required&quot; and it was snowing at the time to the 8,000 foot level, but the roads were mostly clear.  The Stanley did well on the ice.  The next time we will do it in the warmer weather.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:43:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11373#msg-11373</link>
      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pat
Are you saying it’s time we got out of the shop and d-winterized the Stanley’s 
I just finished a pattern for 20 HP crossheads and brought it over to the foundry to cast some in Navy G SAE 620 CDA 903

Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:56:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11372#msg-11372</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[On April 14th, 2013, we took a 7 day driving tour in Southern California, steaming some days up to 138 miles in length.  On the  4 day part of progressive touring, we went up into the Sequoia National Park  and we traveled with a group of ten pre 16 gas cars to the a Park lodge where at the 8,000 foot elevation, we spent the night.  Our car froze up and was damaged in 20 degree F. and 20 mph winds.  Lately, I have been working on rebuilding my pump pit on our 1914 Stanley Roadster.  After our freeze up there, I moved the Stanley without first checking the water pumps for being frozen solid. Leaving a day ahead of the others. I broke the pump drive rocker arm in two and I bent the &quot;H&quot; pump drive a bit to a diamond shape from the freeze up.  Even with that damage, traveling only by ourselves and no back up, we successfully drove the roadster 36 miles down the mountain road without the pump drive working.  Wife &quot;Merrily&quot; hand pumped the water and fuel until we found a place where I could borrow a welder and I could make the needed emergency repairs at the small town of  Three Rivers.  Because I couldn't get any cylinder lubrication to the engine for those 36 desperate miles, we kept the steam pressure down to a low 150 psi in hoping that saturated steam would be our cylinder lubrication. After our roadside welding repair, we had to drive over a hundred miles to get to Bakersfield that night. I just checked out our engine and no damage was done to it. Wet steam worked! Our steam gauge was thrown 50 pounds out of calibration because of the ice in it. The snow covered Sequoia trees were gigantic!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:26:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11335#msg-11335</link>
      <author>Jeff Brown</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Finally finished the main body for my R today with the last lot of sealer and sanding.  Some pics attached.

It's all sealed with epoxy so it doesn't do things in the Arizona summer heat.  Now I just have the seats to build so tomorrow it is time to start on the former to mold them on.

Jeff]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:24:16 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11327#msg-11327</link>
      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Kelly
I used the term (finishing cloth) as there are more than one manufacture. I have been buying my refractory (insulating material and coverings) from Refractory supply houses in the Boston area for years. There is one in Waltham Mass and another large one in Newburyport Mass, and a few others. 
I buy it by the roll and case; sometimes if I go in person I can finagle a broken case or smaller quantity. 
Also Fiberfrax has dominated the insulation material as a brand for steam cars but there are several other manufactures. I have bought hard board 2X4 sheets from 1” thick to 2” thick for water tube boilers as well as bat of 2 to 4 inches thick rolls by the foot. 
The finishing cloth is not an insulating material but is made to stand up to the heat of boilers and steam piping and paints fairly well. Go into any power plant and you will see it painted many colors as each system has its own color. 
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:33:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11326#msg-11326</link>
      <author>Kelly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm glad to get the term &quot;finishing cloth&quot;, I hadn't heard that one before.  Another term is &quot;rewettable fabric&quot;, see the following:

http://www.newtex.com/Products/Zetex-Rewettable-Fabrics/
http://www.gltproducts.com/products/rewettable_fiberglass_cloth_-_style_1989/1872
http://www.amerisafe.net/en/insulation-products/pipe-repair-products/rewettable-pipe-jacketing/fiberlock-lag-kloth-rewettable-glass-cloth-60-x-150--17219]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:56:38 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I don’t know what Diplag material is. Fiberfrax is an insulation, I used three layers of 1/8 Fiberfrax and a finishing cloth on my EX hood. The finishing cloth comes in very fine to course grades (I used a fine weave) and is pre socked with a water activated adhesive. I then finished the job with a coat of flat white latex paint. 
On the EX there is very little space between the smoke hood and the inside of the hood. 
I used contact cement to apply the Fiberfrax, but first I cut a five inch strip of finishing cloth around the bottom edge of the hood hanging out a couple of inches, after the fiberfrax was installed this was wrapped up to form a finish edge to the bottom edge of the job. Then the finishing cloth was applied to the complete inside of the hood and the flat white latex. 
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:27:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Peter Turvey</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am completing  the hood and smoke hood insulation on my Model 607 - query - what is the best material to use - diplag on its own, or a layer of (1/8&quot;?) fiberfrax finished off with diplag?

Assuming I of course can get same in the UK, or shipped over at reasonable price!

Peter Turvey
Marlborough UK]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:16:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11323#msg-11323</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of rebuilding a couple of Baker burners.  Our Mt. Wagon kept on lighting back in the venturi.  I am sure that the fire came around the burner plate inside somehow.  It sure wasn't igniting from around the outside.  I will let you know what I find out.  Our model R is getting a new burner pan.  The old one had too many holes in it to work with.  It was an old used burner when I got it.  Winter is the time to work on the steam cars. :)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:14:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[By golly, I think that you have it.  Another test of the size of the top bows is if they will all nest when down into your top saddles.  The 1914 has a unique top saddle that if a top bow that is too wide, it will not stack properly.  The outside width of all four bows has to end up being the same width for each top bow.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:15:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Peter Turvey</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the compliment SSssteamer, I've been busy with paintbox and filled in the top outlines on the photo to get a better impression of how the top will look, finished results at http://flic.kr/p/dJURAn]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:40:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Kelly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just don't forget to swap out those blue top straps.  :-)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:08:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11319#msg-11319</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A very beautiful model 607.  From the photo, it is hard to tell how your top will look when finished.  I am sure that if it is like the rest that you have restored, it will be looking perfect.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:08:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11318#msg-11318</link>
      <author>Peter Turvey</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Over Xmas I fitted the dummy top bows made up after measuring the Carl Amsley restored top on car #7717. Today I rolled #7644 out of the garage and put some battens over the dummy bows to check the angles of the top. Looks like the dumensions are ok &amp; we are nearly ready to order the bows. 

As the garage entrance is up a slope I've also put a winch in so I can get the car back when not in steam. 

Peter]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:55:48 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11316#msg-11316</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We had Harold Musolf Jr., his son Greg and his grandsons here today.  Since this year is about all used up (December 28, 2012), we decided to go steaming.  With its new boiler, we took out our 1914 Stanley roadster for several trips around the neighborhood.  The snow was very low on the hills, but the freezing temperatures didn't seem to slow down the Stanley at all.  Worst part about being out driving this time of year is that I had to wash all of the mud and leaves from the tires and out from inside the fenders.  The condinsate left in the air behind the Stanley was something of a sight to see.  And in the freezing air, the big white cloud hung around for quite a while.  We had FUN.....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:30:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Rolly,  I purchased a couple 20 HP boilers from Howard Johnson and I took delivery of them at the Iowa Steam Car tour. (no freight charges) :)  The boilers were built by Howard and his family.  Both were hand swaged. Well finished in all respects.  The extra boiler is going into my model R.  I didn't like the new boiler that was in my R because, for me,  it didn't have enough fire tubes in its tube sheet pattern.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:24:11 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Pat
Where did you get the boiler? Are the tubes swaged or rolled in. 
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:58:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Rolly,  Pretty handy jacking blocks that you have made up.  Sure beats doing damage to the paint and bending the axle truss rods.   I had our 1914 Stanley roadster on the road with its new boiler.  Works good and no leaks yet.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:17:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Jacking blocks
I decided I needed a few more jacking blocks. I made a few several years ago but gave some away; you need at least two if you want to put a stand under one. I like keeping one wheel off the floor and every time I’m in the garage I give the engine a turn. 
I glue them up laminated from Maple boards.  One of my drawings shows lag bolts, there carriage bolts.

Rolly

http://www.stanleysteamers.com/photoalbum/rolly/pumps,tanks,parts/axle%20jacking%20block-1.jpg

http://www.stanleysteamers.com/photoalbum/rolly/pumps,tanks,parts/axle%20jacking%20block-2.jpg]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:13:49 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been busy installing a new boiler into our 1914 Stanley 606.  It is ready to steam up now.  If it would stop raining for just a few hours, I will take it our and see how it performs.  The old boiler was 20 years old, had 30,000 miles on it and it suffered from mud burns.  It had been scorched about 15 years ago pretty good and that didn't help either.  My rapid firing up with my Baker burner didn't help either.  From cold, I have fired up to driving away in 3 1/2 minutes.  The last time that I fired up that hard was at Bakersfield this last April and from there on, the boiler  became a leaker.  I tried swaging the boiler about 4 different times but the boiler didn't seem to have anything left to pull it tight with.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:46:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11272#msg-11272</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[After over 25 years of steaming  our non condensing Stanleys, I had to pull maintenance on the Power Water Pump's adjustable ball check caps.  A couple of them didn't have good enough threads left on them, one car didn't have any adjustable ball check caps, and I also didn't have any spares adjustable ball check caps on the shelf.  I spent a couple of days turning out and updating what you see in the attached photo.  They sure do quiet the pump ball check noise down to an acceptable level.  The measurements for these can be found in a recent issue of &quot;The Steam Automobile Bulletin&quot;.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:19:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Pat much to my surprise they weigh the same. 37Lb front 47Lb back. 
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:03:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Rolly,  The new wheels and tires look beautiful!  Is there much of a weight saving comparing the old wood wheels with the new wire wheels?  About how much of a weight difference is there between them?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:38:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I bought white tires, their 20-year new old stock. When I went to install them on the rims I found them to be 1-1/2 inches two small in diameter. 
I had to build a stretcher and a heat box and finely got them mounted.
Hear is the new look.
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:43:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Rolly,  When you start getting some miles on your new wire wheels, as the spokes become seated,they will soon loosen up on you.  Next, if you don't already know how to,  you will learn how to tune your spokes for proper tension and trueness.  I tune my motorcycle spokes so that they all  have the same tone when the spokes are struck.  All the spokes that have the same tone, also have the same tension.    SSsssteamer]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:34:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11257#msg-11257</link>
      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hear are a few more photos. I went for the modern look of having all the spokes on one side of the flange and the head recessed.    
This requires every other spoke to have a longer bend where they cross, need to plan ahead. These are forty spoke 7-8 gauge two spoke cross pattern. 
Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:14:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11256#msg-11256</link>
      <author>Rolly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pat this has been one of my most frustrating projects. I won’t go into that now. 
Hear are some more photos. Now I need to get the rubber on. 
Rolly

Rolly]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:30:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What are your work shop projects being worked on?</title>
      <link>http://stanleysteamers.com/phorum-5.1/read.php?1,10469,11255#msg-11255</link>
      <author>SSsssteamer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Rolly,  Great looking hubs.  As usual, you do excellent work.  Your photos make it look easy.  But we really know it is a lot of work.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:07:22 -0400</pubDate>
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