[Steam-engine] Buffalo injectors

[Francis Orr]

Richard,

I used to import and sell Buffalo injectors until the firm was bought up and 
the new owners closed the injector business. Buffalo started out copying the 
American Metropolitan injectors and were in business at the turn of the last 
century. When I was selling them, there were the only outfit making 1/4" 
injectors as Penberthy had stopped doing it. You might be able to find a 
couple of Penberthy #113 Auto-Positive Injectors which are horizontal and 
would not look bad on a locomotive.

 To the best of my knowledge, Penberthy is still making injectors but you 
will have trouble finding the flanged fittings. You will probably have to 
make a flanged coupling with a short threaded section to make the match up.

Just before Buffalo closed, I learned that they had boxes of parts and I was 
able to have them make up a number of lever action injectors but none as 
small as 1/2" I think two of those will be hard ones to find.

Francis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Selway" <richardselway1 at hotmail.com>
To: <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:36 AM
Subject: [Steam-engine] Buffalo injectors



Hello All,

I'm based in the UK and have been signed up to this board for quite a while 
and have thoroughly enjoyed the discussions that have taken place. I've 
never had a need to post a message, until now that is.

I'm currently mid-way through restoring a 2' gauge Bagnall saddle tank loco 
from the Greaves slate quarries in North Wales. All is going well, with the 
boiler being re-united with the frame after a long while. We're starting to 
look at piping up for the vacuum brake system, which is a new area to me 
completely (but all part of the fun!)

However, at the moment I looking to find 2 No 3 Buffalo horizontal 
injectors. They would need to be flanged for coupling up to 1/2" pipe, with 
a working pressure of around 160psi.



Does anyone know who might have some for sale, or if anyone is still 
producing entire injectors or spares.



Thank you all.



Kind regards,



Richard



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