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Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« on: January 11, 2021, 01:46:45 pm »
The closest I can get on the model number for this one is 520 or 520/1 as the catalog does not have the dimensions... If anyone else has this model, can you let me know rough base dimensions so I can figure out if I have the larger or smaller of the two? Thanks!

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From the 1902 E.P. Catalog:

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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2021, 07:58:23 pm »
Here are the three of them together Nick. They are roughly 6.75, 8.75 and 10.75 inches long the base.
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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2021, 08:01:00 pm »
The little bloke has the stack on the top of the boiler and the larger ones have the stack on their own base.

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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2021, 09:29:55 pm »
Thanks Walter, so your 10.75 is the 520/3, your 8.75 is the 520/2 and lets hope your 6.75 is different than mine, so we can figure out if one of us has the 520/1 and the other has the plain 520...

I checked with Roly Williams, and his appears to be the same as mine, BUT his flywheel is 37mm, where one of mine is 45mm and the other is quite a bit chunkier at 50mm

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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2021, 09:35:48 pm »
Well... dang-it! My two are also 6.75”, so all I can tell you is that ours are the same... either a 520 or 520/1...
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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2021, 09:38:06 pm »
By the way, look at my pictures of the two next to eachother... notice the strange fill plug on my nicer one? the top half unscrews and there is a hole through the bottom half. Any idea what’s up with that?
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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2021, 12:56:54 pm »
The catalog pictures look like your older fill hole.
The newer one looks like a safety valve, some what, Wilescoan.
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Re: Ernst Plank 520 or 520/1 “Hercules”
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2021, 01:14:03 pm »
The catalog pictures look like your older fill hole.
The newer one looks like a safety valve, some what, Wilescoan.

Safety valve is built into the pressure gauge. The part that looks like a safety valve screws shut, I’ll get a picture...
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