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Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Jim on July 31, 2024, 06:26:28 pm

Quote from: Nick on July 31, 2024, 04:38:16 pm

It’s not hoarding if all your stuff is cool

Or if 'you' think its cool :)

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Mike on July 31, 2024, 06:22:35 pm

You are absolutely correct Nick. 😊

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Nick on July 31, 2024, 04:38:16 pm

It’s not hoarding if all your stuff is cool

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Mike on July 31, 2024, 11:52:05 am

I am a collector of all things mechanical but my wife calls me a hoarder. 😊

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: txlabman on July 31, 2024, 11:26:37 am

Steam Hoarder (per my wife) and a mechanic. I am mainly an "Airer" (running steam engines on air).

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: St Paul Steam on July 31, 2024, 05:05:28 am

I'm definitely a "fiddling steamer" I rarely leave well enough alone, there is ALWAYS something that can be done to improve things, I just hope for the wisdom to let some things be.

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Weedensteam on July 30, 2024, 11:11:35 am

Quote from: MasonvilleEngines on July 29, 2024, 09:31:09 am

Left out day dreamer, I am fiddlin' day dreamer but I get a lot of it done

Yeh, me too!

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: MasonvilleEngines on July 29, 2024, 09:31:09 am

Left out day dreamer, I am fiddlin' day dreamer but I get a lot of it done

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Stoker on July 29, 2024, 09:03:02 am

I fiddle around whenever I need to, which is somewhere between often and all the time. So, I guess I'm a fiddlin' steamer too.

Absolutely love the video that Raphael has shared here of someone fiddling around with a hydroplane, something that I did once a long time ago, though not in such a perfectly classical sense as that shown in the video!

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Nick on July 29, 2024, 07:54:12 am

I’m just a junk collector…

Title: Re: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Raphael on July 29, 2024, 04:14:56 am

Bonjour,
https://youtu.be/47IxDrFNjuk
 ;D  ;)

Title: Are you a Steamer, a Fiddler or a Fiddling Steamer?
Post by: Jim on July 29, 2024, 01:33:36 am

Lately, every time I setup to steam an engine there's one or more problems that cause to me end up 'fiddling' and repairing and then I go down the rabbit hole of 'modifying' and days later and hours and hours in my shed I'm back to getting ready to steam the engine and the accessory.
So I'm definitely in the category of 'Fiddling Steamer' .