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scobby12

oldish home made steam engine and boiler

hi all brought this of trade me last night for $6.00 when i went to pick it up he said just have it was planning to chuck it in the dump better with you so i took it home had a little much round seeing how its build turns out i have plans to make this in a old step by step school book anyway heres the pics on the clean up im still yet to polish and steam still the first two is how i got it













sarfraz

Wow, what a great find & rescue. It's come up nicely.

Cant wait too see it running
Dean W

Can't beat the price, that's for sure.  Looks like it was someone's fun metal shop project.
scobby12

Dean W wrote:
Can't beat the price, that's for sure.  Looks like it was someone's fun metal shop project.


Yes would have been they were design for schools like kennth wells??
i have got a book on how to make them
Pete the steam

Like it  
magpie38

its ckeaned up well, good job
tmuir

Yes a nice T E Haynes school project engine from the 1960s.
I have a hot air engine built from one of the other Haynes school project books.
Can't beat the price and it cleaned up nicely
marmite

That looks really great, it never ceases to amaze me what a difference is made with a bit of a clean and fresh paint.

Are the Haynes school project books still in print?
scobby12

marmite wrote:
That looks really great, it never ceases to amaze me what a difference is made with a bit of a clean and fresh paint.

Are the Haynes school project books still in print?


Dont think so but i have got book on the engine from a school teacher it was the first steam engine i ever made
fcrammond

The design is fine, it's the execution that can be a problem. Apart from minor things like blocked steam pipes and unsoldered joints mine suffers from the fact that practically no "right angles " are actually 90 degrees and as a result all the bearings are out of line. I suppose that is what education is actually about. I do hope his second project benefitted from the errors he made on the first. Still it does look good polished up. SWMBO actually permits in in the living room.
mrborinator

It shure look very nice now, weldone and good pics.  

Rob.
scobby12

After its first run in 40 odd years a polish was in order and here we are

Dean W

Looks nice all cleaned up.  I like it, not just for it being an engine, but for what it represents;  This is the kind of thing
all the real boys made in shop class when I was in school.  Not steam engines in particular, (although those too), but
good solid metal, made into something either fun or useful, by boys.  It's cool.
Les

That has cleaned up well, I am looking forward to seeing the video soon.  
MrDuck

Sadly a piece of history but interesting as such
whistleman

wow, that did scrub up well.
Celsius 100

You have worked wonders on it.
Steve_S

That's come up very nicely!
Woe is me

Dean W wrote:
Looks nice all cleaned up.  I like it, not just for it being an engine, but for what it represents;  This is the kind of thing
all the real boys made in shop class when I was in school.  Not steam engines in particular, (although those too), but
good solid metal, made into something either fun or useful, by boys.  It's cool.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              That's good old school stuff right there. Do they still have trade schools or even metal shop classes anymore?  Probably just computer stuff, damn shame.
scobby12

Thanks alot guys
very interesting pulling these old engines apart and seeing what they used to put them together, yes there is still metal workshops at school as i have just left and we made steam engines but no boiler a bit of a shame but oh well
Keith S

Dean W wrote:
Looks nice all cleaned up.  I like it, not just for it being an engine, but for what it represents;  This is the kind of thing
all the real boys made in shop class when I was in school.  Not steam engines in particular, (although those too), but
good solid metal, made into something either fun or useful, by boys.  It's cool.


I heartily agree with this, Dean. It seems like people are too busy staring at their "smart phones" and typing nonsense like "LOL" and "OMFG" to actually DO anything. I hate to sound like an old crank but there, I said it anyway.
MI Steam

You did a great job cleaning it up and you saved it from the dump.
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