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willsy


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:46 pm    Post subject: se1 clean up Reply with quote
arrived yesterday and did need a good clean so got out the good old brasso and is now nice and shiney

not so clean boiler


shiney boiler




and a now fairly well cleaned burner
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Les


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
One things for sure, you definitely do not like a dirty engine, and have got shares in brasso because you must use a lot of it.
Well done on a very nice looking shiny engine.  
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
clean engine is always good and they always get cleaned after being run. like them to be  shiney and yeh i do seem to get through a fair bit of brasso
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Wallace


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks brilliant Willsy.

Top job  
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
By golly, that'll pass inspection.
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Nick


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can see myself in the boiler!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
great job wilsy! looks very shiney!
Did you also clean the paint of the base? looks pretty good too.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great job! I never can get the copper pipes that shiny, you outdid yourself.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sunglasses on for that one!
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Mamodman123


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Do you use an electric polisher? Dremel or whatever?

The results are stunning    
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mamodman123 wrote:
Do you use an electric polisher? Dremel or whatever?

The results are stunning    


I think he has been to the Sandman School for Polishing.  
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
all paint original just in very good condition and all used was brasso and elbow grease to polish same with the copper pipework to just took abit of time
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Minor1PJG


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A spledid job
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Best to take pictures once you get them all shiny too, I shine mine and then immediately run it and it is all tarnished again the same day  
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
i ran it earlier today and its runs a dream was very impressed very quiet
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