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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Videos The Office of Steam Cinema => Topic started by: RichSteamTx on November 26, 2024, 09:33:16 am
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Great work Rich!
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Thank you Charlie - sometimes it takes a bit to get a project done. Though still keeping my eye opened for a original bayonet whistle but as the engine is now I think it presents very well! Especially considering how the engine started off!
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Great work Rich!
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Lovely old Weeden and I LOVE that burner!
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BTW, what do you think about that grooved balance wheel - seem many of those on Weedens?
Actually that is a first for me.
The groove wasn't factory, some previous owner of the engine made that groove for some reason - its horrid, like it was done with a grinder!
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Here's a short of my brother's Weeden #20, now with the proper brass lamp base and pressure valve with steam line. Not a fast runner but she runs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGDAU7Bsl8
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BTW, what do you think about that grooved balance wheel - seem many of those on Weedens?
Actually that is a first for me.
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Hey Frank - thanks for the time but I got one from Dave for the 1st No. 20 I fixed up. While it is surely better than no bayonet whistle but I'll wait (a long time) for a donor to pop up. Interestedly, just this past weekend I pointed to someone to Dave for one of his repro bayonet whistle and they ordered one!
BTW, what do you think about that grooved balance wheel - seem many of those on Weedens?
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I believe Dave was making them, but not positive, give him a shout from one of these links:
http://weedensteam.com/store.html
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Coming soon, Revisit of Early Weeden No. 20 - I was able to win a some what reasonable eBay listing of a No. 20 that will get my brother's the proper brass lamp base, pressure valve and smoke stack. The price wasn't bad, though there was someone else that wanted it too - hope it wasn't one of you guys. At least I got it for a lot less than the buy now listing.
It is interesting that the balance wheel is grooved, not sure if I have seen any Weeden's with its balance wheel grooved. Now if I could just find a bayonet whistle to replace the reproduction one, though that isn't critical.
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I got a early #20 from my brother and it was a basket case. Missing the lamp base, smoke stack, bayonet whistle, and the bayonet pressure valve's arm was busted off & gone. Talk about a challenge but I got it to run!
I got reproductions / replacements for the whistle & pressure valve, which both have their issues. Poor fit, leaking, and not true reproductions. I borrowed a lamp base and stack from another engine. Then I ran into problems where the arm of the piston was out of place, that took me a bit to figure out. Then the piston rod would jam, so I can to take the end cap off (which I HATE doing) to clean crap out of the piston area.
During the video, I am pretty sure I was running low on fuel, since before I started the video it was running slight better. Regardless, its running and likely had no right to ever be ran again ;-)
Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6e9e8scZM