Boiler Planning for A3 Switcher (Patreon)

Hey Patrons,

A few folks requested my bill of materials for the boiler build for the Pennsy Switcher. I've put my spreadsheet in the Patron drive and it's also attached to this post. It's a PDF, since I did it in Numbers, which is not a spreadsheet program most people use. I didn't plan ahead for sharing this, so it's very rough and in a weird format, but the data is there. Included are McMaster part numbers for everything. One thing missing is a bit of copper round bar, because I already had that in stock.

Total cost for these materials was about $800 Canadian shipped to my door, which is actually pretty good. I think copper prices have come down, because I paid over $1000 in materials for my vertical boiler that I built last year. Boilermaking remains an expensive endeavour, though. I expect all the materials for this locomotive will be many many thousands of dollars by the time I'm done, but it's hard to predict. It'll be spread out over many years, so I won't feel it as much. :D