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

ordered mine

Bob

Being totally new to this hobby I feel anyone I can help out is Great. I ordered mine this morning!

Hi Brent, eBay typically ignores people with 99.5% good feedback. In fact, I have seen ebay ignore sellers with good  feedback down in the 80s or low 90s percentages. In Jin's case, I believe there is a small but vocal group of people (possibly as few as 1 or 2) who complain loudly not just with feedback but possibly with phone calls.
I noticed that while Jin opened this new channel more recently, they either imported his previous negative feedback or the disgruntled party has bought under a new user name and re-posted the same feedback. I also believe it's possible that eBay is (dare I say it) discriminating against some of those whose language is harder to translate and/or understand.

I also wonder if some of the newer sellers on ebay are attempting to step on the competition.

I bought one, could not pass it up at that price, plus I want to help also. I only have two sterling engines, with three I can call it a collection!

  My tiny Stirling just came in and it looks and runs perfectly.
Ordered August 21st to today, August 30th - a really quick
delivery from the other side of the world.

  My old engines blushed when they saw Jin's Stirling.  They were
blinded by the light.

Wayne

I have one on the way. Never had a problem with Jin’s service on anything I have bought from him.

2 of them arrived here yesterday.

They look awesome.

I haven't had time to run one yet.

They run absolutely fantastic, but as a caveat, be careful not to overfill the little burner and give it a reasonable cool down time before trying to touch the engine anywhere!

I fire mine in a baking tray with an insolation pad under it, and I also put a little anti-seize on the burner threads then never use those threads to fill the tank, but rather use a fine needle tip on a small hypodermic to fill the tank through the vent hole or alongside the wick.

I ordered my second one from this wonderful sale yesterday, just two days after receiving my first one, but in truth I already had two of these from much earlier in the year, so knew well what wonderful little engines they truly are!!

I may well order a third before this super deal ends, not necessarily because Christmas is coming, though gifting does come to mind, but more likely, just because!!!