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I just received this in the mail today.  I have been a bit nervous waiting for it as It is difficult for me to tell from a still photo how well built it was going to be.  I am very pleased with it.  It looks to me like it was made very well and I can run it on lung power.  I need to rig up some sort of system to run it off my compressor.  I can use an attachment on the hose to give it air, but I have to hold it on the inlet.  I want to put something together that I will not have to hold onto and can still control the amount of air flow.  I just got started looking around on this forum so I expect I may find something to inspire me. 
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Thank you!   The Jensen was my first “toy” steam engine.  I got it in 2002 and Mr Jensen included a note saying he personally built the engine for me.  It is a blast to run. I need to figure out how to turn down the power on the boiler because I like to run it slow and it blows off continuously unless I run it flat out.

Get yourself a rheostat to control the current going to your heating element. They come in all shapes and sizes with various capacities, but these ones for controlling fans and routers seem to work pretty well for most of our steam engines and are relatively cheap, like these that are sold from a hundred sources on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165989343345


Look around and you'll find plenty more at different price points, but don't forget to figure in shipping costs.