Today I spent a little time taking this neat little steam plant apart.
It required heating up old solder joints to separate the pipes for removability (is that a word?).
Once apart, I cleaned the boiler and the metal plate that holds it all together.
Then the fire grate got some cleaning.
I learned the square box under the steel plate is a water well as I suspected.
Unexpected was a bit of sophistication in the form of a float mechanism that would tell the operator how much water remained in the feed water supply tank.
Below is a short video along with some pictures of all the components.
It almost looks organized...!
I lost this tiny pin. After taking the engine outdoors for a little more cleaning, on the way back in, I noticed the pin for the eccentric rod had gone missing and it is truly small.
I got lucky..... I remembered wiping up a lot of crud on the work table where I was cleaning and picking up said crud with a paper towel to be deposited in the rubbish bin. I went there, found the paper towel all crunched and opened it slowly and carefully to avoid dropping the specs of crud. There it was.... among specs of dirt bigger than it. As I said, I got lucky this time.
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Next are pictures of the boiler and other components.
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