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tmuir
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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: Blowtorch fired Steam Engine! |
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I just received a stack of photocopies from old magazines articles to build toy steam engines and this one caught my eye.
Have a look at the photo. They are using a blowtorch for the heat source!
On having a quick read of the article it has been designed to heat the boiler with a blow torch.
Thats a first steam toy I've seen designed for that sort of punishment.
Maybe Mamod could release new blowtorch powered models.  
I can see the law suites rushing in now
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Very old ad and very misleading!! - they are just too hot!! |
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tmuir
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| SPOKESMAN wrote: | | Very old ad and very misleading!! - they are just too hot!! |
It is not an add.
Its an article to make the engine from an old magazine.
The article is written by a Manly Banister do not know what the magazine was called.
The boiler is brazed not soft soldered and has a coil of copper pipe in the firebox the flame is aimed at not the boiler itself.
It would work but I would not want any child of mine using a blow torch to run a toy engine!!
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| tmuir wrote: | | SPOKESMAN wrote: | | Very old ad and very misleading!! - they are just too hot!! |
It is not an add.
Its an article to make the engine from an old magazine.
The article is written by a Manly Banister do not know what the magazine was called.
The boiler is brazed not soft soldered and has a coil of copper pipe in the firebox the flame is aimed at not the boiler itself.
It would work but I would not want any child of mine using a blow torch to run a toy engine!! |
Sorry!
Looks like a Arnie pose . . . . |
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Dauntless
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frightning isnt it!
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Mamodman123
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Are you sure that isn't Juha?
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Mamodman123
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He fired his SE1a with a blow torch. There is a thread about it in General discussion
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Dauntless
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ahh right I've missed that thread
I thought you meant one of those in the pictures looked like Juha
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| Dauntless wrote: | ahh right I've missed that thread
I thought you meant one of those in the pictures looked like Juha |
Just that he was blow torching his engine
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Dauntless
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hot stuff
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tmuir
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| Mamodman123 wrote: | | Dauntless wrote: | ahh right I've missed that thread
I thought you meant one of those in the pictures looked like Juha |
Just that he was blow torching his engine |
I had just read his thread and then opened the envolope that had these plans in it and saw this picture and thought it would bring a couple of smiles up so I posted the picture
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o dear!  |
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