Here is to our head Mechanical Officer – Matt Baccitich. He is a real team player regardless of the tasks presented, hardworking, fun to work with, and he doesn’t mind explaining things in layman’s terms. In fact, I have learned quite a bit from him over the years, and I appreciate it all. Also, more than being […]
March 18, 2017: We received our first five new superheater units, and there are four of them in this photo. Each unit has four elements (runs) and two ball ends. Thus, each unit contains two riser Pipes with a ball end (steam side and throttle side) and sixteen lengths of tubing. Each flue holds one […]
March 16, 2017: So another quiet weekend. Here’s what happened: Unloaded the first batch of new super heaters and got them under cover. Loaded some more tubing on Gary O’s trailer so he could continue on with the build. That was actually somewhat of a Chinese fire drill, because stuff had been stacked up around […]
3-10-17: So, it was a productive weekend, but not very exciting. We organized our storage area to open up some space and scrapped out some super heaters. We saved the forged ball ends and the forged return bends of the original super heaters (probably from 1938). If you want a ball end or return bend […]
Board of Directors member Jim Vanderbeck is often on hand during work parties to help out. Here he is doing some cutting in the combustion chamber. This cutting is a step in the removal of flue tubes. Thanks, Jim!
2/24/17: “So, Saturday, we pressed on with ultra-sounding. Not very exciting…not very dramatic…tedious, actually. But Randy W. and Kyle C. keep plodding along. At the same time, Devin R. helped out exposing some pipe for inspection and cleaning around. On Monday, the tube crew continued on removing those flues and tubes that have to come […]
The guys have been hard at work this week – cutting and remove Flue Tubes.
2/18/17: Steve R. prepping the engine for more ultrasounding. This is to remove any rust or debris so that ultra-sounding can be performed on the bare metal. Photo by Randy Woehl
Kyle Chappell and Randy Woehl taking aim with the sledge in the combustion chamber to drive the flues out after the tubes were cut.
February 9, 2017: “So, last Saturday no work occurred on the engine, because a light show hosted by the ORHC was still in progress and we could not get to the engine without disturbing it. However, Matt B and several others did have a “Last Monday” during which they made further progress removing tubes and […]