Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Congrats - a very nice looking engine with the correct amount of patina!
I hope it was not the last time you have heard a blow from the whistle
- thats a funny story
greetings from around the corner, Arnold

Grüezi, Arnold.
Well, judging by the compressed air test, she's a bit tired but alive and kicking. I have straightened a connecting rod and given her a new crank-pin already. Now the burner is up for a test and then I'll try her under steam.

I am still wondering about the pressure in the boiler - must have been a really "high pressure" system in England when the SV was screwed in last time. I know that oscillating cylinders work like air-pumps and create some pressure in the boiler when you turn the flywheel over a lot of times - I don't know if this works for fixed cylinders as well. And I doubt that anybody has turned over the wheels of this loco that often...