| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Leadfoot-uk
Forum Newbie
Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 50
Location: Gravesend, Kent
|
 Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: Hello from me |
 |
|
Hi all, been browsing this site for a little while, joined at the weekend. Had an interest in steam since college which was quite a while ago. I can just remember my grandad taking me to the colliery engine yards, full of loco's, in the northeast before electricity took hold. Personally I don't believe in electricity, I've never even seen it! I have been looking for a model to restore and won one at the weekend, but I may have upset Kart90 by sniping him, sorry! This is what I won:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAP...;ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
It looks like an SE2 from the boiler but the pipework / piston seems to be an SE1, I'll know more when I get it. Will put up some pics in the restoration forum when I get it.
Cheers,
Scott |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Ross
Hero Steamer
Joined: 20 Jun 2009
Posts: 1679
Location: Lincoln UK
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Les
Steam Supreme Being
Joined: 03 Nov 2007
Posts: 17549
Location: Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hi and welcome to the forum, I think you are right in the fact that it is a SE2, congratulations on the win. 
_________________
Les - Nolo Servile Capistrum
www.freewebs.com/lesmarsh |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
steamyjim
Steam Legend!!
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 7076
Location: England; Great Britain
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Welcome to the forum! 
_________________
"Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire." Dr Fred Dibnah MBE |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dampfmaschine
Full member
Joined: 24 Dec 2008
Posts: 776
Location: Fife - Scotland
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hello  from Scotland |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Graham-Jilly
Steam Legend!!
Joined: 04 Mar 2007
Posts: 6223
Location: Brisbane Qld Australia
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
to the forum
nice engine by the way
_________________
   |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Sandman
Steam Supreme Being
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 13858
Location: Ayrshire Scotland
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Another big Scottish welcome to the forum Scott.
Don't be afraid to wade in with any questions or seek help with any problems you may have with your engines.
You'll find we're all interested in any new buys our members make, and the experts are here if needed.
I look forward to many a good steam chat with you.
_________________
http://www.freewebs.com/sandmansteamshack/index.htm
http://www.youtube.com/user/Steamsandy |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bugsy
Steam Legend!!
Joined: 28 Jan 2009
Posts: 3142
Location: Sala, Sweden
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Welcome to the forum from Sweden, Scott.
_________________
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
newsteamer123
Full member
Joined: 28 Jul 2009
Posts: 940
Location: south ms. in the us of a
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
welcome from south us
_________________
put that in your firebox and light it!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Atticman
Steam Legend!!
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
Posts: 6466
Location: Gloucestershire UK
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Welcome and that looks like a nice SE2, late 1960s i would think.
The pipes and piston are the same as an SE1 at that time, superheated, the only difference really is a whistle and the steam regulator lever on the exhaust pipe on the SE2.
_________________
You cant get an engine for that anymore unless you are lucky |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MooseMan
Steam Supreme Being
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 8535
Location: Cardiff, Wales
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hi, welcome from Cardiff!
_________________
Nid wy’n gofyn bywyd moethus,
Aur y byd na’i berlau mân:
Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
johnreid
Steam God!
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
Posts: 20435
Location: Friendship Indiana, USA
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Welcome from Indiana USA
_________________
Non Impedite Raditioni Cogitationis |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mogogear
Steam Legend!!
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
Posts: 2540
Location: Portland Oregon
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
A kind hello and welcome from Oregon , USA
_________________
Lagniappe readily offered and accepted,
Mo
This week I are His Most Noble Lord Mo, the Apocalyptic of Old Tonbridge Wafers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
IndianaRog
Steam Supreme Being
Joined: 26 Dec 2006
Posts: 9327
Location: Indiana, USA
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hi Scott,
Another welcome from Indiana, USA. Don't lose any sleep over sniping Kart90...happens to all of us...sometimes we snipe, sometimes we get sniped.
cheers,
Rog
_________________
Visit IndianaRog and The Temple of Steam: www.indianarog.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
tmuir
Steam God!
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 20183
Location: Western Australia
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hi, and welcome from Perth Western Australia.
All is fair on ebay.
I've been beaten plenty of times on ebay by other members on this forum but thats ok as it is an auction so the item must go to the highest bidder.
Have fun with the restoration.
_________________
http://www.freewebs.com/ozsteam/index.htm
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmuir1/
A nice example of an Australian made Scorpion Donkey Engine |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
)