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Woe's new Heavy Steel Toy Steam Engine. Static Display?
« on: May 19, 2022, 01:47:47 pm »
This showed up on Monday. It was on eBay.UK and I got it for half of the BIN price. Seller didn't
really know what it was but said it doesn't run, just a toy. It really caught my eye and looked
like it was made from actual parts so I gambled on it.
First of all it's heavy, 5lbs, 3oz. The boiler is 8 1/2" long and it's 12 1/4" high to the top of
the stack. It's all steel, iron, and some brass. This thing is built like a brickhouse. Everything moves freely, the piston is solid not hollow. The connecting
rod was hitting on the flywheel axel where it comes through the eccentrics so the sleeve had to be moved
in and now it's fine. The horizontal and vertical part of the boiler is one big chamber. You'll see
a picture where there is a blue squiggly line showing what's all connected. The orange line is where
the bottom is inside. It does run on air. Steaming it would take a lot of time and gas to bring it up to steam.
See the pictures and the video. I hope you enjoy it.



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Great that it actually works, makes your buy all that much better.

I have to say that is a very clever way of running on air through the whistle, could even use the whistle as a regulator if the engine didn’t have one.
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Cool folk art - I wood try to steam it. Just do not fill too much
of water...
Thanks for the video - Arnold :D

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well thats alright Tom, runs pretty good & like Nick said, I love your whistle air supply hack...pretty neat.
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Thanks all. ;D
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That is an interesting find, having a soft spot for Shay locos I have this from Practical Machinist bookmarked re T-style boilers:
http://chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?t=102654
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Neat toy, Tommy. Where was the firebox? Maybe you could heat the horizontal section of the boiler? It does run well.
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That is an interesting find, having a soft spot for Shay locos I have this from Practical Machinist bookmarked re T-style boilers:
http://chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?t=102654


Sorry for taking so long, I was out of town for a week. Thank you for including that information
on the "T" boiler. Those would be nice with the tubes in them. My toy doesn't have them. It's just
a big area and no place for a fire box. I could fill it with water and place it in campfire.
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Neat toy, Tommy. Where was the firebox? Maybe you could heat the horizontal section of the boiler? It does run well.



I was gone for a week and trying to get caught up. It doesn't appear to ever have a firebox. There's a fake door
on the back end at the bottom. You take out the screw in the door and it comes off. There is no opening, just a
threaded hole for the screw. I'll play with it and see if the bottom plate comes off. It is a neat toy, thanks.
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What a nice find and nice addition to the collection.
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Thank you Jim.
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Hi Tommy, Nice show. Thank you!

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