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tmuir
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Hi and welcome from Australia.
Rog has already mentioned to use distilled water but what he didn't mention is don't use deionised water which is quiet often sold next to the distilled water. It uses a different process to remove the impurities from the water and can over a long period of time remove the zinc in the brass and cause your boiler to develop leaks. We are not talking over night but over a period of many years it will.
Toy steam engines seam to last just about for ever as long as they are treated right, many of us have engines coming up on 100 years old that we still run and as long as we look after them they should still be running in another 100 years. 
Oh and like everyone else has said, I like the base too.
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johnreid
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"Spring Water" which is sold around here instead of Distilled is nothing but Tap Water so avoid it too.
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Wallace
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TRAPPERKEEPER
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Welcome from Texas  |
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Nick
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 from MN!
Fire it up & Steam it! They are fun and easy.
You should post some pics of just the base as I am very interested in making one as I am sure many others would be too. |
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shaygetz
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Thank you all again for the warm welcome. I appreciate the cautions on the water as I live in an area with a high mineral aquifer. I do feel blessed that I purchased a good "first strike" from what I have seen of the comments. Like my model trains, it's not fit to spend its life staring down at the world from a display case...it's meant to be run and tomorrow I plan to fire it up. I do find it odd that all the You Tube videos of it in operation have most of them running without the canopy.
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You should post some pics of just the base as I am very interested in making one as I am sure many others would be too. |
I was in fact, quite fascinated by the response to the base as I had assumed it was sold with the tractor or some special edition form of it. Though bummed up a bit, the finish is fairly top notch for even the best home craftsman, very nice, even sheen to it and the wells for the wheels are very precise---it sits exactly centered side to side and front to back---pretty amazing for a homemade plate if it is one. As I pointed out earlier, there is evidence of some sort of name plate on the one side. Here are some pictures of it...
You can see on the bottom there is even provision for wall hanging  both vertically and horizontally The magnet is powerful and does hold but I won't test it beyond that  Its dimensions are 12 3/4" x 8 1/8", the wheel wells are 5/8" and 7/8". With all that, I guess I'll be holding onto it a bit tighter now.
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Nick
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| About the canopies, they look very nice, but you will find it very difficult to get at the engine while it is running (things like oiling). |
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CCairns
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Les
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I run mine without the canopy as I find it gets in the way and you cannot see everything working.
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Sandman
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A big Scottish welcome to the forum.
Lovely TE there.
Lots of fun with that one.
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paul_c
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| Welcome to the Forum, I use rainwater, it is cheap ! |
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MooseMan
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Hi, welcome! You'll love running your TE, they're tremendous fun. Look forward to the video!
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Bingoswestry
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Great TE1A ... love it !!
Welcome from (not so) sunny Shropshire ... 
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shaygetz
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Thank you for the welcome, gentlemen.
I was going to fire it today but found it a bit too cold and blustery, I'll try again tomorrow. With that in mind, I want to make sure my fire pan is right.
I've never seen this particular type and wanted to know if it was to be used with pellets or if it was a type of spirits burner. It is original to the model as I purchased it---maybe it was super-insulated to protect the wood base while the tractor ran on it?
Thank you all so much for your kind words, patience and help thus far.
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Les
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It is a meths/spirit burner, or whatever the equivalent is in the States. You simply fill it up, light it and put it back in the engine.
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