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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: Wilson
Got the Wilson today.....tidied up a bit of dodgy soldering and put in an exhaust tube (not its proper shape yet), oiled her down and filled her up, and off we went! Video's only 20 secs - my camera ran out of batteries!
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:
woaouh! that's is a great little engine, and very good runner,
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject:
Great engine Moose!
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:
Great stuff Moose. Is there much history known about this maker? _________________ Make time to take a step back, and appreciate what you already have.
Great stuff Moose. Is there much history known about this maker?
Not much that I know of - Wilson Bros. were a firm in Liverpool in '48 - they made two engines, this one and a much smaller one (this engine's not as large as it looks BTW - it's not much bigger than a Burnac).
They're nut-and-bolt contsruction, very solidly made. The boiler is silver soldered. The engine fram is a cast alloy, the flywheel is Mazak, the rest of the engine is copper, brass and sheet metal. The chimney is actually a centre flue, and the spent steam exhausts in the chimney - it "chuffs" nicely. Because of the solid construction the whole engine's a heatsink - it takes a while to get up to temperature, but once its running it runs very well and very efficiently. It gets bloody hot....I'm not sure what the regulator wheel is made of, I think it's wood, but it provides much-needed insulation _________________ Stands the glass half empty,
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject:
Thanks for the info Moose, as you say, they are a well made engine. _________________ Make time to take a step back, and appreciate what you already have.
Somebody just sent me a scan of the instructions for the Wilson - I'll post them in the file sharing board. _________________ Stands the glass half empty,
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