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

Beautiful engine.  Mine needed a few parts and the valves were stuck.
I worked the problems out and it runs well.  I do need a pulley for
the inside end of the crank/drive shaft.

Re the pump...I too have issues.  If I rotate the flywheel by hand
when there is no pressure in an empty boiler, the pump has worked,
sending water up.  With a steamed up boiler,  no go.

By-the-by...My Empire B43 pump has two ball-bearing check valves.

Hmmmmm,
Wayne

Does the engine stall, or deadhead?   Or does water just squirt out onto the eccentric, when the boiler is steamed?