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Re: Weeden No. 1 Upright Steam Engine
« on: 10 hours ago »
Thank you Gil!  Half the fun, for me, is researching and learning tidbits.  I think I scored a nice little gem here and rather surprised no one else bid put in a eBay bid.

I hope to one day get a smoke stack but these #1, #2, & #3 stacks are the smallest (in dimeter) of Weeden's stacks.  I have actually taken the stack off one of my boats and put it on my #1, as it is the correct reddish color but even its dimeter is slightly to large (and a bit to short too).  The likely hood of finding a donor where the engine itself isn't worth repairing/restoring is very low.  As we all know, the smoke stacks are often the first to be lost to time :(

So that is a little hint, anyone that has a actually spare, please let me know :-)
Richard