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While I have a #62 this one with the black paint scheme came up on eBay last week, luckily the other fellow didn't fight me much for it.  Aside from the rarer black paint the engine's nickel is in really great shape and wasn't missing any parts.  The heater was a bust and the best that I can tell it wasn't from overheating but from corrosion by letting crap water get down into the heater.  Now I have to buy more nichrome wire, after rebuilding this one I only have a few feet left.  When I bought that spool I didn't think I'd ever use it up LOL



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Nice on Rich.

A missing piece from my Empire collection.

Thanks for another great video and congratulations on a successful resurrection.

Charlie

@Nick would love to see more photos, without watermarks.  Perhaps I'll find one of those one day (though I could put one together).

I know @crazydoug and @txlabman have one.  Crazydoug's is black with nickel cylinder perch, whilst Charlie's is red (seen them on their YouTube channels).  Theirs has the power connection under the sight glass (that seems not so safe) and I can't tell if yours is the same?

Some time last year I saw a #62 (or could have been a #43) that had its power connector under the sight glass, I figured someone had messed with it and disregarded it.  A bit after the sale I saw the workshops YouTubes and I bet it had been for one of those workshops.  After that I wished I had bought it. 

Having the grinder & polisher, I could put it on a a masonite board of the proper size.  I doubt a 4th one would ever come up.  Good thing you saved it from the pile, that would have really sucked if you had reused it or thrown it away.

Found the only 2 pictures I have of it

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If you pull it out for new photos (perhaps for your 365 thread) could you get me the dimensions of the masonite board and the exact hardware used?  The more I think of it, putting my red & black #62 together with my grinder & saw sounds like a fun project.

Rich:

It does sound like a fun project!

Charlie