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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: SEUSA on September 09, 2021, 11:06:12 am
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turned out great, nice job
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Cool beans, Jack!
Looking good!
Gil
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Nice work Jack.
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The difference is night and day. Excellent outcome!
Jim in Minnesota
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Finished painting the flywheel and blue touch up paint. Officially this four month restoration is complete now. [attachimg=1][attachimg=2][attachimg=3]
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A really nice outcome.
Congratulations
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Beautiful work...better than new finishes!!!
Rog
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Wow, that turned out good.
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Finished now.
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I decided to go back with the black firebox and dark blue cast iron base coloration.
I still have alot of touch ups, rewiring, and polishing to do but it is coming along now.
Having to source new screws.
What do you all think of the colors. [attach=1][attach=2]
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Starting to come together.[attach=1][attach=2][attach=3]
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Nice work. I haven't begun to explore my #50 yet. Your pictures of the boiler and heater set up are helpful if I ever have to go into mine. I've slowly discovered cleaning is a trial and error process. Luckily, I think a little soap and hot water will probably be all mine needs.
I think your engine would benefit from a total restoration. After all it's obviously been used and then neglected for so long it deserves a bright future! Good luck.
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Nice work Jack!
It definitely ended up in good hands. :)
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This is a great find, Jack. Well done!
As soon as I saw all that grime on it, I knew it would be very likely be mostly well protected underneath it all.
Interesting to me are the 2 immersion heaters. All other's with the belly heater have 2 cartridge heaters which leads me to believe the engineer who added the ratchet drive oil pump may very well have replaced them with threaded bosses and immersion. He certainly knew what he was doing around his steam engines.
Gil
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If it was mine, I would paint it. The nickle still looks reasonable. Of course, this is a personal decision and some people like the patina.
Is there a good off-the-shelf match for the paint Jensen used on the engines of this period.
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I am one to clean and keep as much original as possible. But I think I would probably do a complete restore on this one. Just my opinion.
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After soaking for 2 days most of the grime came off. Scrubed the parts and soaked them for a few hours in a baking soda water bath.
Scrubed some more.
Now they all are ready for polishing and may be painting if I go that route.
I may just put it all back as is.
To repaint or not to repaint?
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Soaking parts and cleaning the wooden base.
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Soaking parts in a vinegar bath.
Never tried this but I've heard it works. Here goes!
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A worthwhile and exciting project. I wish good luck and success on the journey.
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Parts are now ready to begin cleaning.
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Photos of belly heater and inner working of the Jensen #50 belly heater set up.
To my surprise the belly heater works.
Some new power cords are in order.
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Photos boiler and immersion heaters.
They heat right up.
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The Jensen #50 steam engine power plant is being torn down and dismantled for cleaning.
The good news, all three heaters work.
The belly heater and both immersion heaters heated right up.
That's a great sign. I'll update photos as I make progress.