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   Thanks very much, glad that you like it, and I believe that the idea of just leaving the base as bare metal is excellent. I never thought of that, but it would no doubt be great, especially if the right polishing compound was used to get just the right finish. It would also open up more options for painting the engine parts some other color than gray, as the standard gray probably would not be the most attractive with a bare-metal base.

   Here are some more photos that I should add to complete my account of this engine re-furb, including an original set of the accessory parts needed to make the other two engines, and the fragile little paper that lists those parts. I am guessing that slip of paper is pretty hard to come by. All the parts are there, but there are two "machine screws" as opposed to only one on the list, I assume that one of them is correct but I don't know which one.

   Also some photos of both sides of the three pages that cover each of the three engine versions. Not the greatest but they should help anyone who might need illustrations of all versions (as far as I know, all of these engines were originally sold assembled as the beam engine version, with the additional parts provided separately).


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