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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2021, 01:45:43 pm »
Wow again ..... two V4PRs ...... that really is impressive!

Guess I'll have to repeat myself here and say once again:

"You CERTAINLY have all the BEST of Saito's Marine offerings in your collection!!!"
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2021, 07:38:31 pm »
Thank you Jan and
Thank you Daniel.
I'm very guilty of buying and forgetting.
Since I don't get much shop time on weeknights I'll share a couple more photos.

Here is a picture of a MSM Clyde plant just after I had assembled it. I picked it up a few years back for a boat project which still remains unfinished.

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Here are a couple more photos after I fancied it up and mounted it on a machined base that I made.

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I hope you don't mind all the pictures.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2021, 07:43:14 pm »
Mind? .... I love 'em!!!
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2021, 09:44:55 pm »
Fantastic!!!

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2021, 03:19:54 pm »
The painted engine looks great.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2021, 08:18:55 am »
Thank you KNO3, Charlie and Daniel.
It looks like about twenty days since my last update. :-[
I've spent the last two Saturdays building a shed for my Dad.

Once I found my M6 X .75 tap (they never seem to be where I last put them) I made a few steam fittings, basicly compression fittings with olives that fit over the 1/8" tubing, and compression nuts.

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Here is the mounted Aster plant.

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On to the T3DR plant next.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2021, 09:11:09 am »
That is truly a thing of beauty you have created there Bill !!!
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2021, 09:56:30 am »
Are you going to add a nice chimney to the Aster boiler? I think it is going to look even better.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2021, 11:55:11 am »
Thank you Daniel :)

KNO3, I have been looking for a suitable piece of stack material, I'll find one eventually. I agree it will look much better with a stack.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2021, 01:00:13 pm »
WOW!!!

That Aster Plant looks amazing on that board there Bill :) 
...as does the MSM Clyde Plant, which i somehow missed earlier, with its new dark blue "dress", wooden claddings and no less that fantastic looking metalbase.

WELL DONE !!!
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2021, 05:19:17 pm »
Thank you Jan.

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2021, 05:38:40 pm »
Great showing and great work, Bill...!!!

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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2021, 06:03:14 pm »
Thank you Jan and
Thank you Daniel.
I'm very guilty of buying and forgetting.
Since I don't get much shop time on weeknights I'll share a couple more photos.

Here is a picture of a MSM Clyde plant just after I had assembled it. I picked it up a few years back for a boat project which still remains unfinished.

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Here are a couple more photos after I fancied it up and mounted it on a machined base that I made.

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I hope you don't mind all the pictures.

Bill

Wait a minute... This is the same plant??  :o   Nice Work!!!  8)  8)
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #28 on: April 25, 2021, 09:29:32 pm »
Bill , you do impressive work , your attention to detail is second to none ! The custom base is one of those extra special touches. well done Sir.
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Re: Mounting a couple of marine Engines
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2021, 04:00:47 pm »
Thank you Gil.
Nick, same plant but the brass isn't quite as bright anymore as it has been sitting on a shelf for a fwe years being neglected. :)
Bruce, very kind words from someone whos work I have often admired.

Thanks guys