Greetings,

I am brand new to RYPN forums here and have a question that I hope that somebody here can help me with. First off, let me introduce myself - I am a volunteer engineer and restorer with the Georgia Agrirama Living History Museum in Tifton, GA. As part of our museums live steam exhibits, we run a 1917 Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0T narrow gauge locomotive. (Click Here to read more about our locomotive) As of two weeks ago, we started the process of tearing the engine down so that we can get our 10-year boiler inspection and ultrasound. While we have everything torn down, we are also going to give the engine a nice new paint job. If all goes as planed, we should have everything up and running again by mid September.

Shortly after the museum acquired the locomotive in 1976, they did a from the ground up rebuild, which was completed back in the early 1980's. At that time, the museum was fortunate enough to find two brand new, still in the box, Metropolitan No. 10 1/2 injectors from a foundry and iron works that was going out of business in Macon, GA. While a bit larger than the original Sellers injectors, these two injectors have been the main injectors used on the engine since we started running it in the 80's. Over the past few years, however, these injectors have become less and less reliable as they have become worn from many years of use. Several years ago, we even resorted to replacing one of the Met's with a new Penberthy injector on the engineers side of the train. The other Met has become so unreliable that we have decided that when we put everything back in the cab that we are just going to re-plumb the firemans side to also use a Penberthy.

The museum would very much like to get the Metropolitan injectors rebuilt so that we can go back to a more historically accurate type of injector. This will involve having new jets made to replace the old worn out ones inside the injector.

So, my questions are:

1 - Does anybody know of somebody that can rebuild these injectors for us?

2 - If not, does anybody have tucked away somewhere the specs and tolerances for the various jets inside of the injector?

I have several drawings that show all of the parts inside of our injector, but no specs and tolerances. We occasionally take these apart to clean them well and are familiar with the pieces inside. If there is a service out there that can do the rebuild for us, that would be our first option. However, if not, and if we can find the specs, we can make new pieces ourselves and do the job in-house.

Hopefully somebody out there can help us out on this project!

Keith Rucker
Tifton, GA

Welcome aboard Keith.

We can repair the Metropolitan injectors including the manufacture of new nozzles/ And we're not that far away!

Check out our web site for pixs of Sellers 7.5 injector nozzles we made.

Have Mr King give me a call.

Robert Yuill
Springville, AL
http://www.historicmachineryservices.com

Thanks Robert - I will ask David to give you a call.

If anybody does have the specs on these injectors, I would still be very interested in seeing them.

Keith Rucker