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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Scale Model Gas Engines - Hit & Miss - Throttle Governed - Non-Compression – etc => Topic started by: Jim on January 11, 2025, 04:42:12 pm
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It would give me a good start to figuring out what I have collected 😂
Nick's Minnesotan Museum of Steam
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@Nick
I reckon this would be too small a 'steam room' for our Nick (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji1.png)
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Oh how I would love to properly display my collection in a shed like that!! A shame so many of them sit wrapped in tubs :-\
LOL it wouldn't be big enough for you Nick :)
It would give me a good start to figuring out what I have collected 😂
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@Nick
I reckon this would be too small a 'steam room' for our Nick (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji1.png)
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Oh how I would love to properly display my collection in a shed like that!! A shame so many of them sit wrapped in tubs :-\
LOL it wouldn't be big enough for you Nick :)
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Very very nice!!!
Thanks :)
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Very very nice!!!
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@Nick
I reckon this would be too small a 'steam room' for our Nick (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji1.png)
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Oh how I would love to properly display my collection in a shed like that!! A shame so many of them sit wrapped in tubs :-\
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Also took of the white rope ringer from the ships bell (it was driving me to distraction) and turned up this brass one on the lathe -
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Planning for them to go where the red crosses are located -
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Also two (2) of these metal light fittings are coming as well and I have been able to buy the antique very low wattage bulbs that have a very nice soft yellow filament light -
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I have two (2) of these that have just landed in Oz and going through customs, the plan is to screw them to the ceiling on either side of the light -
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@Nick
I reckon this would be too small a 'steam room' for our Nick (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji1.png)
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Like the pinball machine :)
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While not as cool as your room, my "steam" room is a smorgasbord of crap that I love. I got started collecting pinballs when I was in 5th grade when a friend of my dad gave me a 60s pinball machine. I put it on roller skates and wheeled it a 1/2 mile to my house. I am sure it was a sight to see LOL! At one point in my early 20s my Dad and I have over 50 arcade games when the owner had to clear a warehouse. He told us, "take what you want and what you don't take goes to the dump". So we took them ALL! While between my family members there are about 6 left, I only have what is in my room. It is a real sore point with my kids, to this day they are pissed when I sold off about 5 around 2010.
I am also in to audio/video/film, among other little things. This room is more or less overflow and I have no more overflow left ha! I have zero space anywhere in my home for additional items. God knows what I'll do with my Weedens that I have in Atlanta if I ever completely return to Texas. I have been told I am not allowed to sale / discard in anyway the Campus Queen or the Defender!
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I love the copper tubes on the door !
Yeah, my wife would divorce me if it ever got this far with me ;-)
LOL Hans, you just start of slow and it just 'happens'.....if you hang around here long enough you'll learn what the 'forum effect' is.
In a nutshell you see pics or a vid of someone's new addition to their collection and all of a sudden, your life is gonna' be empty till you also have one :)
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That Sir, is one cool steam room ! I'll bet when Jenny walks in (when she tells you supper is ready) she doesn't even notice a new engine Anymore...lol. You have got that nearly as jam packed as you do your workshop outside. Luv it !
LOL Bruce they are sneaking into different spots throughout the house...its a bad disease isn't it. There's some that I have triples of and should move out to make some room.
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I love the copper tubes on the door !
Yeah, my wife would divorce me if it ever got this far with me ;-)
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That Sir, is one cool steam room ! I'll bet when Jenny walks in (when she tells you supper is ready) she doesn't even notice a new engine Anymore...lol. You have got that nearly as jam packed as you do your workshop outside. Luv it !
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Then....we went to town that afternoon and in a junk shop I found two more large pressure gauges, so of course I had to buy them and now they are mounted and also some copper piping that I polished and lacquered.
The door is getting heavy now :)
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I get a lot of pleasure doing embellishments to my steam room, I did this Youtube short just a few days ago -
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