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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Model & Toy Steam Engines – Stirling Cycle – Flame Lickers – Small Antique Originals => Topic started by: calypso on February 08, 2021, 02:02:42 pm

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Post by: Scorpion2nz on February 10, 2021, 08:29:07 pm

Certainly not HA - Mobil  as looks nothing like my one here

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Post by: RedRyder on February 10, 2021, 08:46:36 am

Hi John, Thank you for showing the engine here. I wish I had more to offer for a positive ID.

Gil

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Post by: calypso on February 10, 2021, 08:11:01 am

Thanks guys. I'm beginning to think that it might be a bitsa.
It came in pieces and had some obviously home made brass tubing attached to the water pump.
Anyway, I'm quite happy with it as it is. Now for a good search for a sight glass. :)

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Post by: yussufhippo on February 10, 2021, 07:37:02 am

Well, John, that's a tough nut to crack.

I agree, it looks like a genuine item to me, very likely from Germany - or are there any traces that different components were joined later on this base???

The tiling looks like Bing, the cylinder Falk or Bing, the boiler does not seem to be made by Märklin...
Strange. I remember that I have seen similar cylinders and this type of oiler

For a brief moment I thought of "HA-Mobil" from Switzerland - but then Arnold would have recognized her.

A nice engine, really!

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Post by: calypso on February 10, 2021, 06:41:03 am

Video now available.
https://youtu.be/3fJ5qxzL4rw

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Post by: tenniV11 on February 09, 2021, 11:11:26 am

I think the engine is worth to rebuild the water level and
to give it a good restoration. Model is not known to me but
the dome looks indeed like a Maerklin or Doll part. Need to
have more photos to see details like the manometer etc.
Awaiting your Video...

Arnold

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Post by: parallelmotion on February 09, 2021, 08:09:37 am

I can't identify it either, but definitely not Marklin.

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Post by: Alan UK on February 09, 2021, 07:34:38 am

Going by the steam dome it may be a Marklin.

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Post by: calypso on February 08, 2021, 02:10:18 pm

Can't get rid of the extra images.

OK, fixed it.

Title: Don't ask. I don't know what it is either Video soon.
Post by: calypso on February 08, 2021, 02:02:42 pm

This has been lying in my workshop for years.
I was hoping to fit a water level gauge, but I never got round to it.
Made the boiler watertight,filled her up and off she went. Won't win any beauty contests.
Video soon.