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Re: Chloe cylinders

Jerry Kimberlin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:48:17 GMT

... Gene may have had an option for bronze rods, I can't remember. I do remember that some builders were saying not to get the aluminum rods - for whatever

Re: Chloe cylinders

Mike Massee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:45:02 GMT

Interesting on the rods. I had some information that he started with bronze rods and switched to aluminum in the 1980s. I guess that piece of information is

Re: Chloe cylinders [1 Attachment]

Jerry Kimberlin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:30:15 GMT

... Thanks for the pic. I got my castings in 1973. The frame was aluminum and so were the rods. So how old the bronze rods are is beyond my experience. It

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

Arno Martens — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:56:13 GMT

©Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:30:39 -0800, Mike Massee ... Hello Mike, I had spoken with Marty years ago while he was still at the Huckleberry and he showed me a key

Re: Chloe cylinders

Mike Massee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:38:48 GMT

Jerry, a strong caveat is that ours probably came from the 1980s or before. There was a 1989 LALS boiler cert on the old engine we got them from, so it's at

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

Mike Massee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:30:55 GMT

... Marty Knox of Ridge Boiler built our boiler to Gene's specs. We did not build it ourselves. Marty sometimes reads this forum and he might be willing to

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

Arno Martens — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:00:29 GMT

©Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:11:38 -0800, Mike Massee , wrote: [ ... ] ... The boiler looks pretty much, except for being

Re: Chloe cylinders

Jerry Kimberlin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:04:55 GMT

... Mike, thanks for the reminder. That is about the size I'd like to go, if I decide to kit bash something. ... Well, that's good. I'll have no trouble

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

Mike Massee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:59:47 GMT

Thanks for posting those - best pictures of the real thing yet. I knew about the Nixon Library appearance but I hadn't made it down there. Now I don't need

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

John Haskey — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:48:49 GMT

... I had a chance to visit the 'real' Chloe on my trip to see family in Southern California over Christmas: http://haskey.com/johnh/trains/chloe I've always

Re: This New Chloe Pt. IX

kenrinc — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:33:15 GMT

Mike, It's looking great. Especially like the green! So does the lubricator dump directly onto the top of the valve? I'm assuming it does from the looks of

This New Chloe Pt. IX

Mike Massee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:11:41 GMT

The Chloe is coming along nicely. It is at the beginning stages of plumbing. Here is a gallery of photos from today and recently:

Re: Chloe cylinders

Mike Massee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:19:01 GMT

Ours were the ones bored out to 1.5" and we have since sleeved them to stock owing to the stock boiler size. It was discussed in one of the earlier "This old

Re: Chloe cylinders

Jerry Kimberlin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:41:34 GMT

... Don't know Ken, but if John went out to 1 3/8" with difficulty, that might be the max. I'll try a search, of course, but I remember the discussion and

Re: Chloe cylinders

Jerry Kimberlin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:39:20 GMT

... Thanks John, my Chloe is 1 1/4" and I got those castings in 1973. I know the ones I have look like they would go to 1 3/8 but the more recent talk on