Any chance of siting a baffle under the regulator, so that steam can enter from the sides and ends, but the water is prevented for slopping up into it?

Howard

What kind of water do you use ? is it very soft?

I use filtered rain water with good sucsess. I was some time a go at a club track and they had super soft water. During driving the water came out of the chimney and I thought there is a damage.

With rain water at our club track after 5 Liter of use the loco ran normal again.

Werner

Is the boiler clean? As previously mentioned what is the water quality? Carry over is not unheard of as steam demand increases. If you imagine the rate you are taking steam off the water if the demand is high then you get vigorous bubbles at the water / steam interface and the more steam you need the more likely it will pick up water with it. If you search spirax sarco on utube you will find some very good videos taken inside an industrial boiler of what happens. Keeping the boiler clean and the TDS down may be all you need.

Paul.

Is the tube with the holes in the boiler removeable?.

A friend with an vertical boiler on sentinel elephant had the problem with much water in the steam.

The steam engine had not a good performance. He took the steam in the boiler with a tube with many holes around.

My theorie was that the water bubbles can good go through the holes. I told him to make a tube with small saw cuts with the same surface as the tube had with the holes. My idea was that the water bubbles were craked as they want to move through the small saw cuts.

My Friend changed this pipe and he was very happy with the performance then. And you can hear it that the steam engine runs much more with dry steam.

Werner

Hello P84R,

The first thing I would do is to take off the water gauge fittings and check that their passageways and the areas around inside the boiler are free of obstructions that might give a false water gauge reading.(Check also that the bottom fitting and bush does not protrude too far into the water space).

You might also be getting priming when the loco is being worked hard, as others have suggested. Also you do not state whether the safety valves are lifting as you go up your incline. You can get a localised pressure drop in a boiler that can promote priming, as opposed to priming being caused by dirty water or water with some oil in it.

Water carry over to the cylinders is quite a serious problem and can cause damage to the cylinders and motion, if not increased wear, and ought to be properly investigated.

If there is a water carry over, you need to shut the regulator and open the cylinder drain cocks.

Do a search online for LNER pacific 'Blue Peter' and the disaster at Durham.

Cheers,

Julian

here's a photo of one I saw on a club stand at Doncaster 2109. Unfortunately I didn't note which club, it might be worth contacting the Sweet Pea owners group. I used to be a member but then it went over to facebook and I refuse to have anything to do with social media (possibly because my missus says I'm anti-social) . It appears to be fed off the turret. If it's made to the original you can't get the bent pipe out, You could drill it out but that would leave the bent bit loose in the boiler. If you manage let us know how