A while ago I bought a wrack of a "Rapid" EP engine.
It was painted by some previous owner, and severely dented.
When it arrived I noticed that rust also took it's toll.
So one can ask ones self is it still worth while restoring it, in this case, in my view, definitely yes.
The burner is not original, amateur made and broken, so that will be offered to the gods of scrap.
This is how it arrived…
Next to that one I have a similar smaller model, but in better conditut still in need of restoration.
So both engines will be restored in this tread.
This is the other one…
So today It was mainly about taking apart the painted one, and stripping it of the paint.
And with taking apart I also mean the boiler itself.
This was necessary to get good acces to the dents and it allows me to put it on my lathe.
This makes it easy to clean it up.
After spending a complete day, although It doesn't look like much but a lot of work was done.
I'm very pleased that the dents went so well out the boiler, and that it cleaned up so well.
I also cleaned up the waffel pattern floor plate and blued it again at least what's left of it.
I you hold it against the light it looks like a map of the galaxy.
I come up with the idea of cutting a second very thin tin plate and glue it with JP Welt against the underside.
This will give it back some structural firmness.
This is how it looks now after a day of work on it.
To be continued…
Cheers,
Danny
PS. you'll find the same restoration on the NOMF (mamod forum)
This will only be for this tread, in the future all new restorations will only be published on this forum
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