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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: classixs on March 24, 2021, 05:29:04 pm
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My thoughts exactly when i decided to pick it up Nick ;D
Plenty of parts on there for the $16.40 it set me back...and even better, i just had to drive a couple of miles to get it, in the same direction i was going anyway to get to the grocery store.
Very much worth the "save" Jan , apparently someone went to a fair amount of trouble to turn out that crude boiler, much of that plant can be straightend out.
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My thoughts exactly when i decided to pick it up Nick ;D
Plenty of parts on there for the $16.40 it set me back...and even better, i just had to drive a couple of miles to get it, in the same direction i was going anyway to get to the grocery store.
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What a mess Jan! :D But those weighted whistle/safety valves can bring $50 on their own here
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This is a challenge Jan. But difficulties are there to be overcome. Good luck.
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Wow!...this D161 would make quite the "Rat Rod" if you could actually make it run? Lots of good parts there if not.
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...and another ::)
Just picked this D161 up locally today, and it must be the worst here yet...but extremely cheap so i went for it, as it has loads of salvageable parts on there.
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Came with a "rustic" homemade steel boiler, welded straight onto the base no less...after the "engineer" appearently learned, that he couldn´t weld it onto the aluminum runways as planned :D
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You too Nick. I'd a took it and I already have one.
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D16s are a great size. Plenty of power in smaller foot print.
Nice job Jan, good grab and a good clean up.
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Instead of taking it down, i now am sort of considering to mount some covers on that engine, since i do have a standalone D16 engine here anyway, and send this back on the market 8)[/font][/size][/color]
Hello Jan,
great work!!! There must have been dirty fingers again. However, it was worth it. The D16 is sure to bring great joy to someone again.
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Yes....you may wish to squirrel this D16 away....you may also find you Need a "Big Block" for your rapidly improving D405... it would be so nice to have a couple spare big blocks ready to serve!
Ben, just dug this one out of the "Wilesco Bucket" again, to grab some covers for this engine ;)
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Should be a D24 engine in there somewhere as well, so i won´t be needing Big Blocks as is.
However, as far as the D405 goes, i don´t plan on fitting one on there.
Might easily change my mind once i see yours going, but until then the main "mechanical" here, would be to get those terrible drivesprockets replaced with a less noisy solution.
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1: Be very careful Jan , you got that so nice looking that you might end up keeping it.
2: Your lucky I didn't see that Nick, I've been looking for an engine made around my birthday, that's a nice one.
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No chance Bruce, this brand has had its time here.
The few i have left, is restricted to "current entertainers", and those few telling me a personal story.
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Save your time buddy, they didn´t make those during the revolution! ;)
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(Feels so good that you´re a couple of years older than me, otherwise i would never get a chance to air such amazingly intelligent jokes :D )
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Nice buy Jan, and what a transformation!! By the way, I added another D16... couldn’t pass up this unfired beauty... I think the oil can may be worth $20-30 on it’s own.
If i found one in this condition and at that price over here Nick, i´d certainly bite the bait as well...Wilesco collector or not.
It´s a beaut, and the oil can a very nice boon, congrats!
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Lucky for sure, every time I get a melted out bushing on Wilesco I find that the boiler end cap will leak from the conflagration that caused the overheating in the first instance.
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Be very careful Jan , you got that so nice looking that you might end up keeping it.
Yes....you may wish to squirrel this D16 away....you may also find you Need a "Big Block" for your rapidly improving D405... it would be so nice to have a couple spare big blocks ready to serve!
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Nice buy Jan, and what a transformation!! By the way, I added another D16... couldn’t pass up this unfired beauty... I think the oil can may be worth $20-30 on it’s own.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wilesco-Live-Steam-Engine-Marked-Made-in-Germany/303920710973?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Your lucky I didn't see that Nick, I've been looking for an engine made around my birthday, that's a nice one.
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Be very careful Jan , you got that so nice looking that you might end up keeping it.
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Looks like the previous owner was a pyromaniac.
I do like those older whistles.
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Nice buy Jan, and what a transformation!! By the way, I added another D16... couldn’t pass up this unfired beauty... I think the oil can may be worth $20-30 on it’s own.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wilesco-Live-Steam-Engine-Marked-Made-in-Germany/303920710973?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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For a non-Wilesco collector, i really do appear to be on a roll here... ::)
Just bought this locally, found it on something here much like Craigslist, and figured 30 bucks wouldn´t be too much for some extra parts...the whistle alone is worth nearly that over here.
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Was my plan to take it down for the parts straight away, but figured i could give it a shot of WD40, to see what was hidden under all that soot and grime on there, and i got better straight away.
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At its arrival the bushing for the whistle was missing in the boiler, something which clearly wasn´t showing at the listing, as they´d put the whistle in place when taking the picture.
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But when inspecting the whistle closer this turned up, and i figured that i just as well could solder it in right away.
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Having invested the time soldering that bushing back in place, i felt that a full clean and a run was in place, just to ensure that every part was "back in business".
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Does run quite well now, but clearly a few years since last, as everything eventhough very well oiled, was squeeking until it had eaten ½ a boiler or so.
Instead of taking it down, i now am sort of considering to mount some covers on that engine, since i do have a standalone D16 engine here anyway, and send this back on the market 8)