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PYRTE 12: Insulation, Painting and running tips.
PYRTE 12: Insulation, Painting and running tips.
PYRTE 12: Insulation, Painting and running tips.
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PYRTE 12: Insulation, Painting and running tips.

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A full guide on insulation and painting, with running tips so you get the best out of PYRTE, your creation. complete with drawings and pictures to build this 1 and 1/2 inch plus scale traction engine.

It's the most inexpensive pull you round you can build and is aimed at the first-timer with its simplicity.

Requires the use of a drill and hand tools.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherGeorge Hughes
Release dateJul 18, 2013
ISBN9781301751426
PYRTE 12: Insulation, Painting and running tips.
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George Hughes

I'm an everyday English fellow in his late 60's who has a passion for model engineering in steam and writing.

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    PYRTE 12 - George Hughes

    PYRTE 12 - Insulating and Painting - Finishing Touches

    and General Running Tips

    Published By George Hughes At Smashwords

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    Contents:

    Insulating your boiler

    Painting your machine

    Finishing touches to your engine

    Running tips

    Links

    Contact me

    Insulating and Painting

    As your PYRTE is very nearly complete, you need to install some insulation around the boiler to keep the heat where it is wanted, rather than warming the whole world up.

    The main points for this are inside the fire box, around the exposed boiler barrel itself, the lagging around the front of your boiler and the front end of the boiler inside the smoke box. (If you want to go to extremes, the piping can be lagged between the take-off tube and the cylinder itself, but that would not necessarily do much good in the normal running of

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