Boiler Designs?

[Shiva]

 Nice! + wait, what's the part number for the hatch wheel?

@Sven J  I forgot, that brown plate, replaced with plate rounds too. Brown plate replacement would keep the neck thingies at place, whle the other plate rounds would be oriented the other way. And all those kept in place regarding to each other with hose rigid. The blue plates would keep the upper and lower in place regarding to each other.

[Sven J]

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

I forgot, that brown plate, replaced with plate rounds too. Brown plate replacement would keep the neck thingies at place, whle the other plate rounds would be oriented the other way. And all those kept in place regarding to each other with hose rigid.

I understood it exactly that way
Problem is, when you build it like that, you don't have those long plates any more running through from back to front, so the whole thing might be more prone to bending.

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

what's the part number for the hatch wheel?

It's the steering wheel from the classic 3829 assembly,  mounted on a 20482 round tile instead.

[zephyr1934]

15 hours ago, Sven J said:

@zephyr1934 The solution you describe above is exactly what I had in mind first. But that 1/2-plate "steps" in the corners looked ugly. Then I had the idea to fill those gaps with neck bracktes and had to find some way to attach them...

Btw: Here's the first real-life build that uses the proposed design.

I agree about the ugly gaps and the final version looks great!

[Shiva]

1 hour ago, Sven J said:

I understood it exactly that way
Problem is, when you build it like that, you don't have those long plates any more running through from back to front, so the whole thing might be more prone to bending.

It's the steering wheel from the classic 3829 assembly,  mounted on a 20482 round tile instead.

Ahhh, wouldn't the red plates be enough?

Ohh, nice hack/mod :)

[Sven J]

36 minutes ago, zephyr1934 said:

the final version looks great!

Thank you!

20 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Ahhh, wouldn't the red plates be enough?

Well, I haven't tried yet. But I suspect that, at least for longer boilers, they may not suffice. I like to have as much stability as possible ;-)

20 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Ohh, nice hack/mod :)

Thanks, but it's actually not my own invention to use the steering wheel this way. Several train MOCers have done so before.

Edited Wednesday at 10:00 PM by Sven J

[Shiva]

Ahh :) Some of the loco's in my to build wishlist, would have use of those.