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igy569 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: My latest Wilesco

Hey all!! Here is the D20 I mentioned in other posts. This time I took BEFORE pictures!

This is what it looked like 5 minutes after I walked in the door from having picked it up. What you can't really see is the dent in the top of the boiler by the steam line.

It is bolted to a board with the workshop (M56)

I dicover to my dismay, that it still had water in it!

30 year old water is really gross. Here is what the inside of the boiler looked like, and this is after I already rinsed it and removed the glass, which was coated with scale.

And here are some after pictures. I would like any input as to the age of this beast. My D12 is from 1961, and it has the collar nut holding the steam line. This D20 is soldered in to a collar, threaded in to the top of the boiler, and the boiler is soldered to tabs on the bottom, just like the flieshmann, so it is clearly older than 1960. It does say "Western Germany" so it is post war. I have more pictures if anyone needs (or wants) to see more. The glass is not clouded, its just the inside is still a green color.

Thanks!!

johnreid · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

Real nice engine there, I do think the Gray base ones are built much better than the new ones. All Wilesco Steam Engines are Post War I believe, although the Company predates WWII they did not make Steam Engines till after the war.
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igy569 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:59 am Post subject:

Thanks! Good information.... so I guess that would place it sometime in the 1950's. As I understand it, they started to use the compression type fittings in late 50's. I know for sure that my D12 was purchased in 1961, being as i got it from the person who bought it!

Any idea when the first year Wilesco produced a toy steam engine? I understand that they largely make high end metal kitchen items. Website was little help.

Wallace · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:24 am Post subject:

Looks like a very nice engine

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Cam · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

nice !!! .....but one question probably shouldnt ask it here but anyway!! how are you going to remove the dent from the boiler?

toxx · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

... looks super! I'd put her in the 50ies, too. Is the pressure gauge the original? It should read: atü (atmosphärischer Überdruck) and not 'bar'.

Did you get the dent out od the boiler?
Oh, a tip: Use a meths burner, and forget Esbit ...

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igy569 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

Les · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

That looks great for its age.

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