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John Chapman
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 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Steve, In my humble opinion you have made a super job of that Bowman M140. Congratulations on bringing it back from the brink. As you say the preservation/restoration debate will run and run but my opinion for, what it's worth, is that you have done a great job and your efforts were fully justified.
| MooseMan wrote: | | Steve, as long as YOU like it, who gives a rats about what's justified and what's not anyway? Bowman or not, it's a great engine. To me, well, it walks like a Bowman, talks like a Bowman, might therefore just be a Bowman. Don't know what my opinion counts for of course, but there are a number of people out there (including members of the Bowman-Jenkins family) who think I know what I'm talking about. |
I'm fully alongside MooseMan on this one and yes, I also think he knows what he's talking about. |
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Steve_S
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks John! I think it turned out well, and it runs very soothly. I've just aquired a Burnac Vulcan on ebay which needs a bit of work, and I've been looking at the picture of yours on your website. I hope mine will look half as good as that! |
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Steve_S
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Mamodman123
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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An excellent runner Steve   just like my one cylinder Bowman.
A credit to your hard work
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Steve_S
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks MM. It really is very similar to your M158... mostly the same parts I think. It ran for just under half an hour, but I hadn't filled the burner or boiler as much as I could, and I expect I could get 35 or maybe even 40 minutes if I did. |
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Mamodman123
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| Steve_S wrote: | | Thanks MM. It really is very similar to your M158... mostly the same parts I think. It ran for just under half an hour, but I hadn't filled the burner or boiler as much as I could, and I expect I could get 35 or maybe even 40 minutes if I did. |
I believe mine went for 30 mins + definatly! it was never ending!
I really like the look of the twin cylinder Bowmans, would yours have had a chimney? or was that an optional extra like most smaller Bowmans? 
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Steve_S
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| Yes, I'm pretty sure that the chimney was optional. But I've never seen any pictures of an M140 where the exhaust steam was actually fed to the chimney, as it was on the M158. On the M140 there were no pipes from the exhaust ports of the engine, so the chimney would have been just for show. On mine I've added short curved exhaust pipes because it makes it less messy when it runs! The bigger Bowman twin M122 had them, and I dont know why they didn't fit them to the M140... cost I suppose. |
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John Chapman
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| Steve_S wrote: | | I've just aquired a Burnac Vulcan |
Lovely engine, they run as well as a Bowman and have a similar build quality.
Look forward to seeing pictures of it.
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sparky
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| yes same here |
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