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Office of Steam ~GLOBAL POWER-UP~ virtual engine show => ENGINEERS HALL at Our 2021 GLOBAL POWER-UP -- Our Second Annual Virtual Engine Show...!!! => Topic started by: eifion on February 25, 2021, 11:35:50 pm

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Post by: eifion on March 03, 2021, 07:05:41 am

Thanks Edward , not sure if it was pride or surprise LOL

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Post by: Edward on March 02, 2021, 08:34:33 pm

Very nice.  Enjoyed seeing it run and the pride I heard in your voice for a job well done.  The men and tools really added to the display.  Thanks for sharing

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Post by: eifion on February 28, 2021, 11:26:35 am

Quote from: Woe is me on February 27, 2021, 09:34:58 pm

Amazing story, glad that the two survivors are here, you and the engine.

me too lol! ;D

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Post by: Woe is me on February 27, 2021, 09:34:58 pm

Amazing story, glad that the two survivors are here, you and the engine.

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Post by: eifion on February 27, 2021, 12:57:59 pm

thanks

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Post by: krypto31337 on February 27, 2021, 11:22:00 am

Awesome story with a great diorama!

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Post by: eifion on February 26, 2021, 08:00:11 pm

Quote from: Brad on February 26, 2021, 01:19:03 pm

That is a great story. I machined my first engine (Stuart #9) aboard a US Navy ship. I don't think many of us built engines aboard ships.

Well seams two of us grease monkeys did LOL

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Post by: eifion on February 26, 2021, 07:57:54 pm

Quote from: txlabman on February 26, 2021, 07:29:20 pm

A wonderful story Eifion.

The diorama is well done.

How many have you done now?

Thank you for participating in GPU 2021. 🤠

Loads of engines but only three complete Dioramas  plus one I am rebuilding at the moment, almost finished. It is great to participate amongst such great modelers and collectors

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Post by: eifion on February 26, 2021, 07:46:41 pm

should explain that many of us chief engineers at sea would start to build engines then leave them behind for the next guy when we went on leave etc , this is one of the few I completed since I was aboard for 10 months at one stretch( plus being on salvage station waiting for bad weather and some poor sod to get into trouble is the most boring pass time imaginable) and the only one I took home for some reason, probably because we docked at Holyhead which is only 20 miles from my home

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Post by: txlabman on February 26, 2021, 07:29:20 pm

A wonderful story Eifion.

The diorama is well done.

How many have you done now?

Thank you for participating in GPU 2021. 🤠

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Post by: RedRyder on February 26, 2021, 01:49:20 pm

Great display and the background story is even better!
Love the history!

Gil

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Post by: Brad on February 26, 2021, 01:19:03 pm

That is a great story. I machined my first engine (Stuart #9) aboard a US Navy ship. I don't think many of us built engines aboard ships.

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Post by: eifion on February 26, 2021, 12:01:33 pm

thanks Doug

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Post by: Doug_T on February 26, 2021, 09:47:44 am

I really enjoy your diorama. Such wonderful details! The back-story makes it even better!

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Post by: Nick on February 26, 2021, 08:23:29 am

A very nice diorama Eifion 👍

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Post by: classixs on February 26, 2021, 02:42:40 am

What a great story on the Jovitt engine here, and a very nicely detailed diorama you´ve built around this well functioning plant.

Well done, and thanks for sharing Eifion!

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Post by: eifion on February 25, 2021, 11:35:50 pm

The Jowitt poppet valve engine in the video has an interesting history and is well traveled. I built it in 1976 on board the ocean going salvage tug "Afon Goch" whilst on salvage station at Stockholm from bar stock borrowed from the engine room stores .We then sailed to Halifax  Nova Scotia towing a cable laying barge. On the homeward passage rescued a merchant ship  North of the Azores in a hurricane almost loosing the tug , engine and me ( but the salvage pay out was very nice !)
The engine was then forgotten about in a suite case in the attic until last year when we were having a clear out. Then I incorporated it  into this diorama. The tug is long gone but a tiny part of it remains in the model at least

https://youtu.be/i3GRMlgwJa8