MY NEW METHOD FOR REPAIRING THE VISION LINE BIG BOY DEPLETING COAL LOAD

I love these posts, I have learned so much from them. Enjoy watching you work on these.

This is a cool feature! I'm glad you found a more solid solution. The repair is definitely invisible.

Wow A great solution. Very creative

Alex, .... very nice!...I like over-engineered bulletproof repairs!.....that repair will last .....build it better, stronger, and last longer!...great work!..

Pat

ALEX you da MAN again!!!   great job.  Thanks for the info!!!!

Alex, you are a magician!!

What did you use?  Magic dust?  Book of spells?  Nooo, super powers!! Yes, that’s it!

Hey guys, thanks for the kind comments.

I felt the old method from underneath could still pull away, this new method is pretty much bullet proof.

Thanks, Alex

@Alex M posted:

Hey guys, thanks for the kind comments.

I felt the old method from underneath could still pull away, this new method is pretty much bullet proof.

Thanks, Alex

Well so far Alex the old method is holding for me.  If it goes again I'll give the new method a shot.  Thanks for posting.  I tend to find myself bookmarking your posts!

I'll keep that in mind if mine dies.  It does look like a more robust repair, so that's a good thing.

Good info, thanks for sharing.

Excellent work, by the way...how is the burned up big boy coming along?

And have you been able to determine the cause?

@NYC 428 posted:

Good info, thanks for sharing.

Excellent work, by the way...how is the burned up big boy coming along?

And have you been able to determine the cause?

It’s up and running again ! Here’s a short video. Sorry I didn’t realize I wasn’t pointing the camera in the wrong direction. As for the cause  to difficult to determine, to many parts burnt up. I will post more details about this on my original thread about this.

Excellent!

excellent repair the right Expert was doing the best Job ever and the proof is in the Video! Great work !

Alex M !

  Alan

Good speaking with you Alex. That looks like a solid fix. Thank you.

To lift up the coal load from the tender body, what do I need to do?

I recently did this repair to my big boy. But instead of using gorilla glue for the fake coal bits, I used clear silicon. The silicon sticks well to the rubber coal load and also the extra coal bits used to cover the metal wire and clasp. The added advantage is that the silicon remains soft and the coal load deforms better when it is depleting.

Thanks for all the information here.  Great resource.

Well Done Alex!