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Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: Jim on December 18, 2023, 08:01:35 pm
Jim, I love that stamper...best looking one I have ever seen and it works well off the relatively low power PM engine.  I have same engine and love it...though struggle to get it going each time I start it.  Well built engines as well, just tempermental.

Rog

Rog if they don't start on the very first go they seem to get a little condensation in the cylinder which then makes them a PITA to get going. Like Bruce mentioned above, if mine doesn't start first time I warm mine up, though I run a gas flame over the cylinder to drive off the condensation.

Does anyone know why PMR calls these (and others in this line) 'Solar engines' ?
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: St Paul Steam on December 18, 2023, 07:56:15 pm
Jim, I love that stamper...best looking one I have ever seen and it works well off the relatively low power PM engine.  I have same engine and love it...though struggle to get it going each time I start it.  Well built engines as well, just tempermental.

Rog
Rog ,for my shows I bring a paint stripper gun , looks like a hair dryer but a heck of a lot hotter, I preheat it on high for about 45 seconds all around the brass cylinder housing on my pm engine & it always starts right away.
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: Jim on December 18, 2023, 04:25:23 pm
Thanks one and all....as always much appreciated.

Cheers guys.
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: txlabman on December 18, 2023, 08:55:26 am

Thanks for sharing Jim.

A nice video.
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: IndianaRog on December 18, 2023, 07:20:22 am
Jim, I love that stamper...best looking one I have ever seen and it works well off the relatively low power PM engine.  I have same engine and love it...though struggle to get it going each time I start it.  Well built engines as well, just tempermental.

Rog
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: Stoker on December 17, 2023, 08:58:11 pm
Looks like great fun!

Thanks for taking us along Jim!!

Perhaps the best built stamp mill I can recall ever seeing!!!
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: RichSteamTx on December 17, 2023, 07:56:10 pm
sounds like a pinball machine!
Title: Re: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: St Paul Steam on December 17, 2023, 07:37:33 pm
That's a fun setup , I can almost smell the metho's from here.
Title: PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper
Post by: Jim on December 17, 2023, 07:08:54 pm


PM Research Solar Engine #3 running a Gold Battery/Stamper


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOzJoBvqqk&t=163s