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After many years of steamboat abstinence, I got Emma back in shape last year, ready to launch her again this year. I'm happy to leave Emma in good hands afterward - once I've found some ;-)

My steamboat website was also starting to show its age. I've been programming it entirely by hand in a text ...

And see what happened in World War II:
The Swiss Electric-Steam Locomotives

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/swisselec/swisselc.htm

Some more technical info here - In german only:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrische_Dampflokomotive
In short:
they used 20 Volt on the heating ...

In Germany you could buy electrical heated steam engines for children.
Even with the dangerouse 220 Volt 50 Hz what is usual in German households

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Hello Pete

one of the businesses in 'my' company is to remove broken bolts from big industrial sewage pumps. In general this patients will be operated on a big mill. By this you do not have any alignment issues of drill/mill and the tap hole.

I didn't know the idea with the counter- clockwise ...

Hey Guys,
after a longer absence from this forum I am back to steamboating again. I was able to manage my business trip from Germany to the IMTS in Chicago in that way that I can join the Lee Mills Steamboat Meet in 2016 for some days. I will arrive in Boston at the 7th and could go by car direct to ...

Thank you both for the tips out of your shops - you always can learn new things...

Finaly I installed the valve and it is working fine...
The coper wire to lock the nuts is temporarely installed - have replaced it with nice inox pins already... Rainer

Yes, I did the quadrant as it was in the original design.

Yes, I changed the actuation rod #11 design. I like to use ready grind stainless rods for something like that. I am not able to machine a surface like that. Without the thread I don't have to do so. It was easy to pin it from the top and ...

All parts ready for assembly

No remarks to my question above?

Todays status - this quadrant is a lousy part - week and difficult to clamp. Lots of possible/necessary alignements.

I did some more machining. This has to be ready next weekend because I have to bring it as a present to the USA...

http://www.steamboating.de/kaiser/picture/2014-10-15.180950-k.jpg

I did the machining of the lever a little different than stated in the instructions.
All this was done by manual ...