After testing the two cylinders separately to run on compressed air, I started to test both connected. This took some more efforts in preventing leakages in the connections and the valve bobbins. Today both cylinders were running, both forward and backwards, on compressed air. They still need too much air, …
A month after the left cylinder was running on air, the right cylinder was ready for a test run as well. I decoupled the left connecting rod, and tested the right cylinder stand-alone. After some attempts it started to run, but only with a high air pressure, and loosing a …
Mounting the Cylinders to the locomotive. During the last two months, I mounted the right cylinder to the locomotive (the left cylinder was done last year). This needs to be done very carefully, to get the alignment of the cylinder, piston, crosshead, connecting rod, and driving axle all lined up …