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Re: Falk 1689/0 and 1689/1(?)- a side-by-side restoration
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2019, 08:19:45 pm »
Quote from: jkbixby on March 30, 2019, 06:13:42 pm
Doing a great job so far Benny - it's coming along nicely! Following your thread is giving me a lot of ideas on how to go about a restoration like this - thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Larry. It is part time research and part time restore. I feel like I spend as much time reading as I do actually working. The engine base paint had me befuddled, with the nice green wash over the brown....turns out it's as easy as that- a wash. Thin highlight paint with water, then paint over your base color. Test pieces have produced good results.
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad I can be helpful.
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Re: Falk 1689/0 and 1689/1(?)- a side-by-side restoration☆☆ now confirmed as Schoenner 112/21 and 11
« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2019, 11:07:18 pm »
These engines, after much deliberation, have been confirmed as Schoenner 112/21 and 112/22, circa 1900. Thanks to Oliv, Maxwell and others.

I had some time to work on the boiler of the /21 today. One of my slipshod solder jobs on the SV bung had failed, so for good measure I re-soldered each of them while I had the cap off. Shortly the boiler was ready for the bath:
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After 25 minutes, the color was looking appropriate:
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So I carried on with reassembly.
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