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Congrats!

Have a couple here myself, and yes...

They do go extremely well with steam engines

Jan, just last week I was thinking of doing the same thing with One of my KJ's and a 20R.
Almost the same color as the Jensen base.   Thanks, now I don't have too.

Don't know anything about these, but they look great...especially Jans!

Komet163b, whose posting this is, has a couple pictures of his in it's original finish.
Mine almost match's the base on my Jensen 20R. Jan's is tricked out. It does look like a
chrome dome on it.

Sorry for derailing your thread here Wayne

As far as the dome on mine goes, these a cast from some sort of "cheapish" white metal (is that the correct term?), quite similar to the material used on the old skinny Jensen flywheels, and will buff to a chrome finish on its own...if you help it to it, with a bit of elbowgrease.

When it comes to the air flow and pressure output, when being run by the Jensen 20 here, is very low to say the least.
I was planning to build it into some sort of vertical acrylic tube water-accessory, as the minute amount of air available, could be let into the bottom, and stir some motion/bubbles in that element.
But eventually discarded the idea entirely, as i have plenty of other projects lined up.

I was hoping it put out enough umpf to run the air back into the boiler so I could shut the heat off
and let them feed each other. You know like, perpetual motion. Just a pipe dream, better put the pipe
away.

I "want" to restore a KJ Miller similar to Jan's...been trying to think what fun things I could do with it in addition to chirping steam whistles....It occurred to me it would make a dandy balloon inflater with that air outlet on top....