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I got a early #20 from my brother and it was a basket case.  Missing the lamp base, smoke stack, bayonet whistle, and the bayonet pressure valve's arm was busted off & gone.  Talk about a challenge but I got it to run!

I got reproductions / replacements for the whistle & pressure valve, which both have their issues.  Poor fit, leaking, and not true reproductions.  I borrowed a lamp base and stack from another engine.  Then I ran into problems where the arm of the piston was out of place, that took me a bit to figure out.  Then the piston rod would jam, so I can to take the end cap off (which I HATE doing) to clean crap out of the piston area.

During the video, I am pretty sure I was running low on fuel, since before I started the video it was running slight better.  Regardless, its running and likely had no right to ever be ran again ;-)

Hope you enjoy!