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Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention --- Nearly Finished & LIVE STEAM TEST..!!
« on: August 03, 2024, 09:24:12 am »
A number of years back (not certain how many years) I acquired the nastiest looking Jensen 50 I had ever seen.

It has been on the back burner for a long time.

In this thread I will add updates as progress is made.

Below are pictures mostly as arrived.

Gil


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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2024, 09:59:50 am »
WOW, that sucker looks truly rugged!

Still, it has found the right place to be brought back to life, and I for one am delighted that I get a ringside seat on that resuscitation!!

I can already "see" the wonderful machine that it is destined, once again, to be!!!
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2024, 10:13:08 am »
Stay tuned!
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2024, 10:20:11 am »
It simply boggles the mind, that anyone who could be lucky enough to actually own a Jensen 50, would let such deterioration and neglect occur and progress to such a shocking level.

They might as well have taken an older, classic Rolls Royce, to a destruction derby.
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2024, 10:46:38 am »
Can't wait to see how this one progresses! I agree, how could this high end Steam Engine get so brutalized!
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2024, 11:51:11 am »
That is a heck of a project you have there.

It would be nice to get a back-story on this engine such as where
you found it and how long ago, to start.  Was it stored in a barn?
Was the owner a 'character'?  All cool! 

Hopefully, Jensen will be able to supply any parts you
may need.  They are also good with advice and help when needed.
For me, they fixed an unfixable engine.

Keep us posted,
Wayne
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2024, 12:23:50 pm »
Quote from: 1stimestm on August 03, 2024, 10:46:38 am
Can't wait to see how this one progresses! I agree, how could this high end Steam Engine get so brutalized!

Basement flooding would be my best guess, while inside a cardboard box.
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2024, 01:15:52 pm »
Quote from: komet163b on August 03, 2024, 11:51:11 am
That is a heck of a project you have there.

It would be nice to get a back-story on this engine such as where
you found it and how long ago, to start.  Was it stored in a barn?
Was the owner a 'character'?  All cool! 

Hopefully, Jensen will be able to supply any parts you
may need.  They are also good with advice and help when needed.
For me, they fixed an unfixable engine.

Keep us posted,
Wayne
I wish I knew more about it's life before me.

I have had it more than 17 years as these pictures were taken in Westport before we moved to Easton in April 2007.
Clearly an incorrect water pump is on it. I was able to get Tom Jr. to make me a new water pump. This was over 15 years ago.

The rest of the parts, I have had to source outside of Jensen. Doug supplied an early correct generator with a cracked magnet that still works.

Note that Tom Jensen Sr. used Stuart Turner site glass parts on this early example.
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2024, 05:59:18 pm »
Here are some pictures of a very well made new reproduction of a 1930s Jensen #50 wood base.

Gil


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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2024, 06:09:19 pm »
Here is the wood base with stain and urethane mixed together (my own blend).

Gil



After first coat..

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More coats...

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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2024, 06:28:23 pm »
Here is the cast iron engine base repainted.

I used a semi-gloss urethane.

I went to our local Sherwin Williams store. 
I brought a mid 1930s Jensen with me for color matching and I explained I've had trouble before with computers reading colors wrong. Some have come close but I have never been terribly pleased with computer color sampling.  The woman running this store has a very good eye and knows here products well. She brought me directly to a wall of color sample cards and quickly picked out 3 cards all similar. I think this one nailed it. She said she could mix it in a semi-gloss urethane and that was her recommendation.

Gil


Here it is resting on the original 1930s base I had copied.

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And on a small table..

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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2024, 06:46:20 pm »
Engine assembly time.

The water pump is not precisely correct for this early example. 
However it is a genuine Jensen water pump made by Tom Jr. about 15 years ago.

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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2024, 06:57:23 pm »
Now to fit it to the wood.

I made a #50 paper template for drilling holes in the wood about 10 years ago. It was quite helpful.

Note that the flywheel has the early 1930s dark blue paint. I have left that original along with the early 1930s generator that is also dark blue.

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I used a skill saw to carve a wire trough in the bottom (just like Tom Sr.)

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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2024, 10:02:58 pm »
Looking good, Gil! It’s coming together nicely!
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Re: Rough & Nasty Jensen #50 Parts Project Getting Some Attention
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2024, 01:34:29 pm »
That looks very nice!!!
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