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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: tenniV11 on October 08, 2023, 12:14:03 pm

Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: Fullraceflathead on October 10, 2023, 09:04:52 am
Beautiful piece of history!!!
Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: Paula on October 09, 2023, 02:13:14 pm
Time well spent, in my opinion. Looks great!

Paula
Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: tenniV11 on October 09, 2023, 01:45:57 pm
Quote from: Paula on October 09, 2023, 12:11:18 pm
Great score, Arnold! It's certainly a beauty, and worthy to stand alongside it's horizontal companion.

(Many of the parts look strangely familiar to me...  ;) )

Paula

Exactly - I had to cut off the blocked, calcified and corroded drain cock with the hacksaw.
Made a threaded bushing and soldered to the boiler. Then I restored the drain cock and
soldered a new thread BA 4 to it. Now it is perfect working - but 3 hours labor...
Arnold

that really looked bad:

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now fully working and original:

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Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: Paula on October 09, 2023, 12:11:18 pm
Great score, Arnold! It's certainly a beauty, and worthy to stand alongside it's horizontal companion.

(Many of the parts look strangely familiar to me...  ;) )

Paula
Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: Steamloco on October 09, 2023, 10:22:39 am
What a nice find! Those two need to always stay together.
Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: St Paul Steam on October 08, 2023, 09:17:36 pm
That is a lovely plant Arnold, now you have a pair of really nice steam plants, looking forward to the video.
Title: Re: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: Stoker on October 08, 2023, 01:19:45 pm
Ooooohhhh ...... that's a lovely pair you have there!!!   ;c)
Title: Brother and Sister - Doll Ship's steam engine
Post by: tenniV11 on October 08, 2023, 12:14:03 pm
Got a very nice Doll Ship's engine 351/4 from a german auction
at a very reasonable price. It arrived very well and careful packed - what
is not often seen. I only had to seal the sight glas and replace two handles.
Also a bit of cleaning and oiling and then I could make a life steam test.
The sound of the parallel twin is great and I like very much the vertical
boiler. Arnold ;D


Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nNlCDmPxrio


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