Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines
Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Restorations => Topic started by: txlabman on July 24, 2019, 02:07:32 pm
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Sweet boss
Thank you Stuart. 🤠
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Sweet boss
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Well done Charlie - definitely worth the effort.
Thanks Larry.
Your post motivated me to get it out today and fix the leaky sight glass. 🤠
I hope you are surviving the Ohio winter.
Did you end up moving?
The Ohio winter hasn't amounted to much this year for us, not much snow, just a lot of freezing rain and ice. The move hasn't happened yet - the ball is in the other folk's court and it looks like it'll be this summer for a decision on their part. In the meantime the new O gauge layout is up and running without any scenery and my steam workshop is all pushed to the center of the room and covered with drop cloths awaiting final drywall finishing and painting - think I'll go fire up a steamer and run it on the 16mm layout. :D
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Well done Charlie - definitely worth the effort.
Thanks Larry.
Your post motivated me to get it out today and fix the leaky sight glass. 🤠
I hope you are surviving the Ohio winter.
Did you end up moving?
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Well done Charlie - definitely worth the effort.
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Charlie, your #25 restoration came out great!
Thanks Gil!
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Charlie, your #25 restoration came out great!
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Very nice one Boss man
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I have added a video of the first steam-up in the "Videos The Office of Steam Cinema"
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I have not asked Jensen.
Next time I talk to Dorita I will do so.
I did get in a new order of parts from Jensen today. So, when I get home tomorrow night I will install the replacement spring on the reversing mechanism.
Hopefully, I will get it steamedup on Saturday morning.
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Great deal you got there Charlie. Did you ask Jensen if they used those bolts ever. Wouldn’t it be cool if JS stood for Jensen Steam.
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As well you should be Charlie 😊
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Thank you all for the feedback.
I decided to leave the blob of solder. IMHO it’s part of the engines history and character. It just doesn’t bother me.
As to the sight glass bolts, wheteher original or not, they look cool, no one else seems to have them and they don’t leak. I worked really hard cleaning these up!
Many of you have much more refined restoration skills than me. For a first try at a frame off restoration of a Jensen, I am very proud of the outcome.
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Nice job, Charlie.
And like you said, it's great that Jensen still has replacement bits. Much easier than finding a similar model to cannibalize.
Well done and for the price? Can't beat that with a stick.
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Looks like solder on the cylinder at least to me.
The JS bolts almost seem like Jensen Steam but probably some hardware brand.
Great work!
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Very clean Charlie.
Maybe in time you'll consider sanding down the JB Weld on the cylinder?
I know these were silver soldered originally but I've used 60/40 with good results in the past, not that you would need to. The JB-W should be good enough.
Great resuscitation!
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Cleaned up very nicely, well done Charlie (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji482.png)
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I must say Jensen Engines are much easier to work on than I thought. I was able to completely disassemble everything, clean it and put it back together again. And it worked. 🤠
Jensen's are like the model T's of the steam world, they made lots of them, the design is robust & generally trouble free...& they're easy to work on (& parts are still mostly plentiful)
good work on that one Charlie.
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Well, I got this one reassembled and tested on air. Self starts in either direction. Heater is fine.
I ordered a new spring for the reversing mechanism from Jensen today and I will be getting a new nameplate for it.
The sight glass and “JS” monogrammed screws went back in and I replaced all of the gaskets.
I must say Jensen Engines are much easier to work on than I thought. I was able to completely disassemble everything, clean it and put it back together again. And it worked. 🤠
I am feeling pretty good about my <$100 Purchase.
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It is always possible that Tom Sr. ran out of the correct slotted head banjo bolts and needed to get an order out, so ran down to the local hardware store and picked these up and drilled them out, but being ferrous, I rather doubt that is what happened, and find it far more likely that some owner committed this travesty of iron bolts!
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Steel. They stuck to a magnet. The pictures are after a soaking in vinegar overnight and some buffing with the dremel (until the battery on it died). They are now soaking in Ballistol. I would like to reuse them if possible.
The Firebox housing doesn’t need a respray and the heater is functioning. So, I am not going to drill out the rivets on the boiler.
More to come.....
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interesting banjo screws Charlie, I believe that somebody just got a nice JS Diamond logo bolt and modified them himself, I would be curious to know if they are made of steel or brass ?
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Progress so far:
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Please post some pictures of the bolts Charlie, never seen them on a Jensen, but you never know...
As requested:
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Please post some pictures of the bolts Charlie, never seen them on a Jensen, but you never know...
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An excellent piece for restoration, and well bought for that price! Keep us up to date on progress, and procedures! I've never mucked around with restoring a Jensen and am curious to see any pitfalls as I have an early No 5 waiting to be addressed.
Thanks Benny. It is all disassembled and I have been cleaning the individual parts. The plinth has been cleaned and conditioned with some polish made for antiques. I have ordered new springs for the reverser linkage from Jensen. I will Test the heater in the morning.
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Looking forward to how this goes. I am concerned however if those sight glass hex bolts used a different thread and are jammed in place. Fixable, but a hassle for sure.
For $100 to the door, you got a great deal.
Rog
I took them out this morning. They are the correct thread, not homemade and look like all my other Jensen sight glass bolts other than the hex heads with the JS logo. Soaking in vinegar now. Pretty cool.
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An excellent piece for restoration, and well bought for that price! Keep us up to date on progress, and procedures! I've never mucked around with restoring a Jensen and am curious to see any pitfalls as I have an early No 5 waiting to be addressed.
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Looking forward to your restoration as I need to learn the process to use on a few I have - hope you're lucky on the sightglass bolts and they aren't a problem.
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Can't wait to see what you do with this one Charlie ;) You've easily got $100 worth of parts there
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Great price for a restoration project.
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Looking forward to how this goes. I am concerned however if those sight glass hex bolts used a different thread and are jammed in place. Fixable, but a hassle for sure.
For $100 to the door, you got a great deal.
Rog
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I've never seen anything there other that slotted screw heads, but those are hex bolts. Hope they carry the correct thread so that you're not dealing with that issue.
Lovely engine with the heavy cast flywheel, I'd say you got a bargain to work your resto on!
Hope it's all there and serviceable so that there are no bad surprises.
Nice Score!!!
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I also noticed that the screws on the sight glass have a “JS” logo inside a diamond. I don’t have these on any of my other Jensen Engines.
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I bought this on eBay for less than $100 including shipping. I wanted a cheaper one to attempt my first full restoration of an older Jensen. More to come.....
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