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Not quite sure if I have shown this engine her before.
Bought it a year ago (paid too much...). Only to find that it was not just used and sooty, but had suffered a severe burning and repainting and scratching and other forms of mistreatment...

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...and that the cylinder end cap had come off:
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I decided, in a fit of mild craziness, to a) get her running again, b) retain as much of the old substance as possible. Took me some weeks, this is what she looks now like:

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Looks a bit blotchy, but I am astonished about how much of the old blueing is still there. Sadly missing a chimney, water gauge cover and the "door" for the fire box (a shield cum handle attached  to the original burner, which I am desoldering at the moment)

Here the first test run - mind, the steam pipe has not been re-soldered yet:


And her with the governor in place:


Tank you for your attention
Thomas

Nice job Thomas!

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Congratulations, a remarkable restoration.

Hey Thomas,
That didn't turn out too bad. I have the same one here and it's missing a few original things.
The stack, front boiler support leg, and the burner are not factory issued. Like most of them
out there mine is missing the catwalk supports, your lucky there, you have yours. One other
thing I noticed different was the boiler endcap and the positioning of the site glass holes.
Yours run straight up and down where mine run on a 45 degree angle that puts the drain cock
in the bottom center. Now I wonder if someone took the endcap off and moved it on mine.
They're good running engines.
Thanks for showing it.

Tommy, I have seen quite a few Carette engines which have the angled sight-glass layout. Perhaps a matter of the size (boiler diameter) they came in?
The boiler support pillar is partly melted away in the burning the engine must have suffered.
I still would like to get a fitting chimney...

Enjoy the steam videos now posted!

Hey Thomas, I'm going to throw a couple pics in here for you, hope you don't mind.
First pic is the front pillar, not as nice as your original one. Found a stack on
German eBay that someone is making and was close, kind of. It's a little lose fitting
so I folded some black heavy paper for both sides to shim it, works great. The last
two pics show the site glass angle and the replacement burner,(not original) that it
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For the records:

A friend in the Netherlands asked me (!) if he could make a replacement chimney for the Carette. Basically, because he wanted to test his technical skills. So I sent him some photos and measurements...

Amazing result, imho...

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Superb! What a restoration!

Hi Thomas - better than new - I do know only one guy in Netherland
that can build this - #Rob van den Born - ??
Greetings over the Lake
Arnold