I spent some more time on the feedwater heater this weekend. I want to dry-fit everything to make sure I like the pipe routings before painting and gluing, so I've adopted a pin-in-hole construction. Small holes are drilled into each component, and short section of phos. bronze wire is glued in place. Each mating component has another hole drilled. The fit is just tight enough that I can observe the routing and handle the boiler shell a little without everything falling out of place. I also sanded the filler on the feedwater heater down back to smooth surface.
Hole in the top of the smokebox:
Pin on the bottom of the feedwater heater, and pin-and-hole connection between the steam pipe and feedwater heater:
Engineers side steam pipe:
Firemans side steam pipe:
Two views of the smokebox front partially reassembled - marker lights have also been added:
~Chris
