Berwick St John Country Fayre 18/19 September

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

A couple more so you get the idea

[Timothy Hackworth Jr]

Is it the one belonging to Mr Garnett of this parish? (does he still have one? - I remember being taken by Flagwasher to see it in Clevedon years ago)

[sjf9393]

Just out of intrest who formed them? Look a nice job.

[Bosiboz]

Originally Posted by sjf9393

Just out of intrest who formed them? Look a nice job.

Stuart Woodbine of Chesterfield Derbyshire sadly no longer with us although his brother in law still continues the business I think.

[GRUFFER]

Andy melrose has also got a proper former for a garrett crown we mad it to do ours

[The governor]

Yes the garrett on the truck belong's to Mr Garnett boiler and box has been resting with us for a while at the yard, it's going up to shaftesbury steam to be rivited up.
Will be nice to see it up and going in the not to distant future.

Regards Rob

[daves bigmac]

A shame what will be such a nice engine to have a realy rough fire box should have talked to woodbines they do some cracking work.

[boilerspecter]

if mr garnet is fitting the welded firebox and not the properly formed one, I am amazed, that firebox is tottally unacceptable . arwell it takes all sorts

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Originally Posted by boilerspecter

if mr garnet is fitting the welded firebox and not the properly formed one, I am amazed, that firebox is tottally unacceptable . arwell it takes all sorts

Hmm,

I have ofter wondered about these fireboxes after I learnt of the 4CD sold at Kivells had its example removed.

When you ask the right questions to the right people, it seems there are a number about so fitted. That is square corner welded Garrett style fireboxes without the front to back crown.

Avelings fitted similar fireboxes to the late type rollers they produced, and quite a few of these have been reboxed similarly.

As a engineer who deals with section properties of structural steelwork, strikes me that the form as in Mr Garnett's firebox is a pretty stiff structure. After all the crown's role is to transfer the force on the projected plan area of the firebox onto its side plates. I suspect that if someone were to spend a bit of time doing the sums it should all stack up.

The Garrett 'crown' would help a little, but all that would mean is that you could probably use a thinner plate for the same job.

[sjf9393]

I am about to send a copy of the 4CD boiler drawings to a mr Robert Garnett at RSA for CE approvel. Is this the same chap as above?