[Steam-engine] Article on Rynda's Auction.

[Joe Prindle]

Hi Ken,
Don't the shows you go to share the cost of your boiler inspection? Our
club has had a policy on that for as long as I can remember. If you go to
three shows, and ours is one of the, we pay one-third of your inspection.
If ours is the only one you take your engine to, we pay it all. We also
pay for the trucking of engines from up to a couple of hundred miles away.
we would prefer to get two small engines on one load, but have went a fair
distance after just one. we have a local outfit that specialises in heavy
hauling and they give the club a pretty decent deal at a flat $80 per
hour. We can usually make good time loading and unloading, so it is
actually cheaper this way than paying by the mile.
As far as the UT testing goes, I donated a Krautkramer-Branson UT machine
to the club a year ago. I don't really have the time to do it and one of
our older guys, Paul Young, knows the code really well and has been inside
a bunch of boilers. so, we have a little deal worked out where Paul will
go out and check a boiler for a guy for $100 a day, plus mileage. Unless
the boiler comes to our show, in which case it is free. Paul has a good
rapport with Dean Yourchuck, our local inspector, which never hurts. We
are really, really fortunate that our inspector is a reasonable guy with a
lot of experience, a lot of knowledge and a lot of good old common sense.
Paul recently did the UT on Raemisch's little Rumely and found that it was
good for about 45 psi per the code. This engine was supposedly built in
the late 1880's and the boiler is like new, nowhere was there more than
about .030 of material lost. The stay bolts are on 5 1/2" centers and the
boiler was built with a round bottom to the firebox. It is a well
preserved engine, but there is no way to get more than 45 pounds out of it
using the current safety factor and calculations. For years it has run
with the pop valve set at 100 psi, but no more. They are talking of having
a new boiler made for it, but Paul and I think that they might want to
preserve it as it is. You can still putt around a bit on 45 pounds and
since it is so well preserved, it might warrant leaving it the way it is.
Some day, someone will "restore" the very last original and then what will
we have to use as a reference to how it really was. Sort of like the story
of the hatchet Washington used to chop down the cherry tree, had a new
handle three times and a new head twice, but it's still the one he used!
Looking forward to visiting with you at Baraboo,
Joe
--- Ken Majeski <fuller_johnson1 at msn.com> wrote:

> Sometimes I think I have one or two Too Many Engines Now.... Here we
> have to 
> do our own UT ( Or Hire it done) every 5 years... Then they come and
> look 
> things over, Check your calculations... and that'l be 80 $ a year
> Please.... 
>   All to run it one day a year....
> 
> 
> 
> Ken Majeski, Ellsworth Wis. Case Steam Engine, Minneapolis Steam Engine,
> 
> Rumely Oilpulls H, F, & R. Website, Http://www.pressenter.com/~kmajeski/



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Joe Prindle
Patternmaker, Founder & Machinist
See my 1889 Reynolds Corliss at:
www.tznet.com/jprindle
Our Club:
www.badgersteamandgas.com
See Yoo in Baraboo!


		
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