Day 92: Jensen #15E
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Yeah, but do you have one in each color? ;c)
Yeah, but do you have one in each color? ;c)
Yes
I have copper, black and silver and two different variations of the plastic housing
But where they are hiding? I have no idea… 😂
Day 93: another from Jin
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P90 wet sump 3.2 to 1 reduction gear box.
Amazingly industrial looking unit with a lot of potential.
I do wish that they had made the pulleys to the same shaft size, so that by switching them it would be easier to arrange for an even greater reduction ratio via the belting.
Day 94: Stuart hammer, I like the unpainted look
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Nice one Nick.
Did you ever make a video of it?
That Stuart, in bare metal finish, looks a bit like a dirty industrial gray, which is realistic for an old shop tool!
Nice one Nick.
Did you ever make a video of it?
I have not played with it yet, picked up a spare Stuart boiler last summer to pair it with. Here’s a video from when crazydoug had it. Smashes the nut really well! I have been saving large bubble wrap for the kids to pop with it
https://youtu.be/kcGYqzda7EU
Day 95: here’s a rare, early one… likely 1870’s/80’s, not sure on maker…
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It sort of HINTS at being a Proto-Weeden?!?!
I like it! It was obviously marketed as a toy. It would have been less expensive than an $8.50 Holly in 1880. It sort of has the feel of a nice model engine that's been left a bit rough so it can be sold as a toy (e.g. the flywheel has not been machined). Most of the toy engines in the 1870s and early 1880s did not use slide valves -- to keep the price down.
One name that deserves more research is George Parr. You wouldn't know from this ad that Parr made toys, but in 1875 he took a couple of his engines into Scientific American. One engine was a small 1/2 HP engine for powering a single lathe, etc. The other was described by the author as a toy, which was running on his desk as he wrote. Unfortunately, as he wrote, he did not bother to describe the toy engine on his desk. This company went away in 1878.
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The only model engine, or model engine castings in this time period I've run across with S-spokes, not counting the Peerless, is Goodnow & Wightman. They were still advertising with this artwork 1907. Most of the small manufacturers were too cheap to include artwork, so we'll never know what their engines looked like. I don't have access to one, but I think Goodnow's catalogs come up for auction from time to time, usually by tool collectors. I haven't found out much about them, their ads were common, but all used this same artwork. This engine in the is obviously is too big to be your engine, but it might be a lead.
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Nice one Nick.
Did you ever make a video of it?
I have not played with it yet, picked up a spare Stuart boiler last summer to pair it with. Here’s a video from when crazydoug had it. Smashes the nut really well! I have been saving large bubble wrap for the kids to pop with it
https://youtu.be/kcGYqzda7EU
I love the bubble wrap idea!