Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Thank you @Paula that is a very nice compliment! 

Many years ago I worked for a company that made automation software for broadcasters (i.e. your local CBS/NBC/PBS stations).  My first couple years I traveled all over the US, South America, and Europe installing our software product with various vendor hardware that went along with our software.  So I would install the equipment in their facility, train the engineering staff ,and then operators.  So I had to be able to talk with well educated engineers, upper station management and then lower skilled operators and schedulers.  Even though I'm a pretty serious introvert, I'm pretty good at it (kind of weird if you ask me).

Anyways, it is interesting you brought up servos, I thought the same thing. I used to have tons of that stuff but gave it all away.  But after playing with the steamroller a bit I discarded that idea - the engine gets way to hot and I doubt it could handle the added weight.