Opinions on this boiler please?

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

I’m considering buying a part built loco, but I’m not too impressed with the look of the boiler. It’s been professionally built but looks a bit of a pig’s ear to my untrained eye. Would anyone like to comment please?

Pictures at http://www.pandasys.co.uk/boiler/

[Eric LougheedParticipant @ericlougheed54619]

Should not the record of pressure testing be documented rather than scrawled on the boiler itself? Just a passing thought.

Looking at the pictures I agree with your implied doubts – anything but neat, particularly underneath. But who am I to criticise having never built a boiler?!

However, I regard ‘professional’ as meaning anyone who gains reward in return for services rendered: even a cowboy builder can claim to be professional!

Sorry to be a misery – now to get shot down in flames

Eric Lougheed 

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

Perhaps some of our brethren experienced in building boilers would care to add their opinions and comments?

 

Stovepipe

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Do you know when it was built as after 2002 it would need to be CE marked. Also unusual for a commercial boiler not to be stammped with builder, pressure, boiler No.

 

If it was a commercial one I would expect it to have come with some form of test cert from the maker

 

I would want to have the boiler tested before paying for it. Otherwise treat it as a model without a boiler and if the price is still good (and the rest of the workmanship) then go ahead and buy.

 

Jason

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

To clear up a couple of points it does come with a certificate for the 180psi hydraulic test, and quite probably was built before 2002, I would check the date on the certificate before buying.What I’m really interested in is does it just look cosmetically poor, or does it look poorly made. Thanks

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Link to photo is “circular”, it merely comes back to this forum.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Link works fine for me Ken, try here.

 

See you tomorrow

 

Jason

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Yes it does, either way now.  Professional  boiler? I know only one who would have used a silversmiths joint on the boiler barrel, but I doubt it is his work. Seemed to have used a lot of silver solder everywhere except where it is needed around the backhead.  The Cerificate must have been signed, is there as name on it that is readable? Anyway it is out of date.

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

Thank you to those who responded.

On the basis that if I had built a boiler that looked like this I would throw it in the bin and start again I will not be going through with the purchase, which is regrettable as it would probably do the job ok at a bargain price.

I’m going to remove the pictures shortly in case I upset the vendor, apologies to those who come across this thread in the future.

 

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

Hi

If the price is right for the rest of it, and the boiler is fit for purpose but not pretty, why not go ahead with the purchase and sometime in the future build a replacement boiler or get one built. As I understand it the boiler will be pretty much hidden under cladding and the rest of the machine anyway.

Keith

[pcb1962Participant @pcb1962]

That wouldn’t work for me, I’m not an ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ sort of person, I like things to look as good on the inside as on the outside, and life is too short for replacing it later, got to move on and get Oliver Cromwell built before I run out of time.

So I’m now looking at another abandoned project, with a much tidier boiler, fortuitously completed 4 days before the CE marking regulations came into force! Anyone think that might be a problem? Pictures at the same place, http://www.pandasys.co.uk/boiler

 

Edited By pcb1962 on 16/06/2010 00:27:02

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

If it’s cheap enough, buy it and scrap the boiler.Ian S C

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