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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: crazydoug on March 19, 2019, 08:50:42 pm

Title: Re: EBay Bargain 1/8 Scale Rider-Ericsson Now a Shelf Queen!
Post by: crazydoug on March 23, 2019, 08:13:18 pm

I WILL get back to it someday! Right now i am starting another hit/miss engine build, and want to see how far i can get with it before NAMES.
Doug

Title: Re: EBay Bargain 1/8 Scale Rider-Ericsson Now a Shelf Queen!
Post by: St Paul Steam on March 23, 2019, 07:47:14 am

sorry to hear that you cant get it running (yet) Doug, I had this model (sold on to Mike ,Maxwell) @ cabin fever 2 years ago, when I 1st got mine it wasn't a strong runner....but would run, when I saw you initial post I wanted to answer for you what the problem might be ,but for the life of me I cant remember what I did to mine to make it a strong runner, best I can recall it was a lot of small things...& I remember working with the top of the hoop quite a bit, I had a bix burner which I think really helped. I remember I had to totally disassemble the water pump & clean it because the check ball was stuck in the bottom port. & mine would be very difficult to get running when you had water in the jacket on initial start up....I would get it running & then introduce the cooling water after it warmed up in a few minutes, these take quite a bit off heat as I recall.  as I'm writing all this, things are coming back to me. I know I worked on mine over 2 weekends.
hope this helps in the future.
SPS, Bruce

Title: EBay Bargain 1/8 Scale Rider-Ericsson Now a Shelf Queen!
Post by: crazydoug on March 19, 2019, 08:50:42 pm

[attachimg=4]After several days and many hours and many questions and answers from other forum members, I still do not have this engine running.  I have a two inch version that I was able to get running with some work, but I also had another two inch version that I never could get running, which I moved on.  I have decided that I have other projects with a higher priority, so at least for now, this cute little pumping engine will have to be a shelf queen! 

If I ever run out of other projects, I may get back to this, as I would really like to know what is keeping it from working properly.  But, for now, I admit defeat!