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Thanks Jan, I am Really enjoying it!
 
Well...my "Steam Fix" was not yet satisfied, but my 2 Esbit tablets are now gone....Suddenly I realized I had some green Sterno "canned heat" on the shelf! Made a little tin foil liner for fire tray and filled nearly to the top with gel fuel from the can. This amount made a Lot more Steam than I was using at slower engine speeds so I was bleeding off excess steam with the whistle, when it was time to reload fuel I changed to just 3 spoonfuls of fuel gel like the one in photo...it looks like a Lot of gel but that spoon is a Baby food spoon so about 1/2 size a standard spoon. I was using the baby spoon because it made loading the gel down in the narrow fire tray an easy task. I found 3 small spoons of gel (centered in fire tray)made all the steam I needed for low speed running. I have been adding more steam oil mid runs and now have 1 3/4 hrs on the engine. What I notice now is after 8 to 10 min the engine still sounds good BUT it gets noticeable quieter after a mid run steam oil top off so maybe adding oil every 8 min is not a bad plan. Will likely add a displacement oiler or larger oiler in the Wilesco style when I modify this engine. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]