| Heritage Boilers -> Hot Flanging & Presswork |
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| This is a field in which we feel we offer a great deal of knowledge and expertise to our customers. As vintage boilers are beginning to need regular repairs and the replacement of pressed parts is becoming more frequent our expensive tooling and pressing capabilities means we can offer our services to other repair organizations as well as to the owners of engines etc. |
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| A freshly pressed outer firebox backhead for L&YR 752 Locomotive Boiler. A 6" thick set of forming blocks were manufactured to hot press the plate before being riveted into the outer caseing. |
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| A Bulleid Thermic Syphon awaiting delivery to the North Yorks Moors Railway. Forming blocks were manufactured to be able to replicate this complicated design. |
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| A replacement steel outer back head for K1 Loco No: 62005.
Note: the complicated Francis Webb pattern fire hole door pressing, seperate tooling was machined from a 4" steel block to press this shape. |
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| A complete set of bulleid thermic sphyphons and replacement throat plate patch, all hot formed at our works. |
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