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gavin3659
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 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject: Hello and Help |
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Hi,
I have just bought my first steam engine as a project to restore with my young son. However I am having trouble identifying it. I think it is a mamod but at some point there has been an extra nut added and then a piece of threaded rod put in the nut to seal it. Can this be repaired and how would be best to tackle this? If I am right, dos this mean that someone has moved the safety valve? Any help appreciated.
Thanks Gavin
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Greetings from Denmark and welcome to the forum .
The engine is indeed a mamod that someone has modified. From the pictures it looks like an extra inlet to the boiler was added , my guess is to allow it to be run on air from a compressor or something like that. Anyway, i can see the safety valve still intact and a water filler plug on the side of the boiler. Try and unscrew the safety valve to see if the spring is still good and confirm that it is still working.
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| hello and welcome to the forum, anyway, if only this engine could talk its had an interesting life, the safety valve seems to be sitting on a ,(added), nut at the end of the boiler and the threaded 'rod' looks like a bolt end that has also bee added at some point. It looks like mamod SE1A but I could be wrong. The water level plug is also definately not standard. does the threaded rod screw out or is it soldered in place |
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magpie38
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| benchmark wrote: | Greetings from Denmark and welcome to the forum .
The engine is indeed a mamod that someone has modified. From the pictures it looks like an extra inlet to the boiler was added , my guess is to allow it to be run on air from a compressor or something like that. Anyway, i can see the safety valve still intact and a water filler plug on the side of the boiler. Try and unscrew the safety valve to see if the spring is still good and confirm that it is still working. |
Kenneth I bow to your knowledge, I think your spot on with the air adapter line of thought |
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MrDuck
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kevininasia
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Hello and welcome to the forum. I'll leave the restoration advice to the experts, but that extra hole in the boiler (the one with the threaded rod currently plugging it up) is just begging for a whistle, imho. 
Enjoy the restoration with your son, and keep us posted with your progress. Good luck!
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Les
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Roly Williams
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Hi Gavin and welcome to the forum.
Your engine is an SE1A with mods to the boiler. This is what it looked like originally:
http://www.toysteambible.org/Mamod/SE1A.htm
If you want to restore it to original condition then, I think, you're looking at replacing the boiler. However, you could just tidy it up and get it working.
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gavin3659
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| Thanks for all your help and welcomes. With this being our first steam engine, I think it will be tidied up and used rather than fully restored. I would however love to fit a whistle but think the thread is the wrong size. The rod is removable and the engine runs quite well and just needed a good oil. Hopefully we can add a few more stories to this engines tale. |
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Steamfan
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Hello and from Illinois!
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Atticman
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A belated welcome, and I believe its actually an SE1, not a 1a 
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dampfmaschinenjoe 1967
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Hi, Gavin and a friendly welcome ,
A good clean of the boiler with BRASSO, steam oil into the cylinder/ piston assembly and WD 40 on all the other moving parts and a matching plug in the second steam outlet will present you a running engine . Fans of original engines would replace the boiler , but that needs more than just the said above, as soldering is required.
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