my 1957 SE3, Restored- Thanks to Graham (G&J)

whistleman · my 1957 SE3, Restored- Thanks to Graham (G&J)

My dad & I went over G&J's place, today- just a 20 min drive away.

Anyway, his beautiful dogs gave us a warm welcome.

Job done-

take off end cap solder inside of cap, put back on.

loctited engine crank. replaced sv washer.

She's going for a trip to the Aussie bush this Wednesday till Sunday-back home Sunday night.

Big thanks to Graham.

Graham-Jilly

Your welcome Clinton
sorry it took so long as a lot happening round here these days.
should have cleand off the soot from my test firing.
have a great trip away mate

whistleman

metalhead100

Nice job fellas!

The pressed on crank on mine was loose....so i used loktite and drillled and tapped a grub screw into it also ...just like the other side....

Just ran the brakes off of it last night! I love the SE3!

Jim

johnreid

Graham is the best, good job.

Atticman

Great stuff so pleased its all fixed,

Les

Glad to see it is all repaired and working again.

Stilldrillin

That`s the way!

Full on forum friendship, at it`s very best......

Graham-Jilly

igy569

Excellent! Great engine for sure!!

Wallace

Nice that it's fixed. Always great to hear of members helping each other

tmuir

Good work, its set for another 30 to 40 years now.

Graham-Jilly

Thanks every one for your good words and Im sure Clinton is very happy.
What I did to fix the leak was to clean the inside of the cap of all dirt and scale. I then smeared a good coating of solder paste to the inside of the cap and heated till the solder had tinned the the whole inside surface. then cooled it down and cleaned off the flux added a bit more paste to the inside rim and pressed it back onto the boiler and heated it on. reassembled the engine and a short test run. Jobs a goodun

TE1DRIVER

Wonderful work you've gotta love the people on this forum

Burnmafingers

A toy engine brought back to life, great stuff

Ross

Great job!