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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Restorations => Topic started by: Nuvolari on July 18, 2019, 04:21:41 pm

Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: St Paul Steam on July 20, 2019, 06:18:53 pm
Nice repair Danny & a very nice Vertical...she glides over effortlessly to a pleasant click over & then on to near full power running, nice, Very NICE !
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: txlabman on July 20, 2019, 04:12:28 pm
Nice job Danny.

These EP Cosmos are wonderful.

One of the favorites in my collection.

Thanks for posting the video and pictures.
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: Nick on July 19, 2019, 09:33:56 pm
Thank you for that history Danny, you are a wealth of knowledge!

There is so much to love about this engine, the cast/octagonal base, heavy flywheel, conical boiler top, I could keep going!  8)
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: Nuvolari on July 19, 2019, 01:53:26 am
Quote from: Nick on July 18, 2019, 08:40:38 pm
Nice work Danny!

By the way, was there any relation between EP and Schoenner? I have always used that style of firebox venting to ID Schoenners... but obviously this is an EP...

Not direct, Schoenner was taken over by Falk in 1912.
But it's common knowledge that there was a lot of interaction between the Nurnberg firms, in exchange of parts and copying each other.
How far these interactions went is not really known.
But in a few cases the men behind the firms where also related in some way to each other.
Not strange if you know that they all where members of the Jewish community.
And marriages almost always  stayed between members of this community.
It's well known that Carette for instance was a cousin of the Bing's.
And if you read the memoirs of Ignaz Bing (published in German), he describes how he helped Carette to start up his own firm.
But it was not always a love story between them, in a later stage in the memoirs of Ignaz Bing, you see friction appear between them.
And not for professional reasons, although not publicly, but for political reasons, as nationalism grew in Germany towards WW1.
Towards WW1 the Jewish community was as pro Nationalistic a the rest of Germany, and the Fatherland alwijs came into first place.
Even production for the war effort, going from nationalistic commemorative plates to steel helmets, was common practice…

A few photos of the engine…
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48320703927_19a9455d64_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBWeNX)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48320586446_2b4c9f8749_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBVCTq)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48320586516_2b4c9f8749_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBVCUC)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48320586486_fc133f53e8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBVCU7)

Cheers,
Danny
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: oilfield_steam on July 18, 2019, 08:44:12 pm
Nice repair, nice engine.  Clean, too.
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: Nick on July 18, 2019, 08:40:38 pm
Nice work Danny!

By the way, was there any relation between EP and Schoenner? I have always used that style of firebox venting to ID Schoenners... but obviously this is an EP...
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: Jim on July 18, 2019, 05:58:52 pm
A very lovely old engine Danny.
Title: Re: EP Cosmos
Post by: Stoker on July 18, 2019, 04:39:52 pm
Nice work there Danny ....   and nice engine too!!!
Title: EP Cosmos
Post by: Nuvolari on July 18, 2019, 04:21:41 pm
Today my latest Ernst Plank Cosmos arrived.
I was in pritty good condition, except the screw thread of the whistle into the boiler was gone.
So I made a bush with new screw thread, and drilled out the old hole to fit in the new insert.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48317940712_f09e460d27_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBG5pj)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48317820866_c4bf06bfb7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gBFsM1)

When the new insert was soldered in it was chemically blued to blend in.

And repaired it was, time to test…
https://youtu.be/KmXPa-vmPus

Some photos will follow…