Author Topic: Westbury Cheddar live steam engine plant from "Mini-Steam" (Read 1318 times)

classixs · « **on:** December 25, 2020, 06:16:10 am »

That sure is a smooth runner Bruce, enjoyed the show

Been looking at these listed by "dougssale" quite a few times, as i find the engine/plant amazing looking, besides a couple of design-flaws...

Agree completely when it comes to the original flywheel.
Always thought they looked like something that fell off a Chinese stirling, and was completely out of place on such a classic looking engine.

...and now that i am spilling my guts already, i actually have one little "beef" more with the original setup here.

I don´t like that steamline much, being the KISS kinda guy i am.
Just because one has a drawer of fittings, there´s no need to use them all at once.
I really am having a hard time seing what good it does, stretching the steampipe to the floor like that, neither visually nor in a steam engineering perspective.
IMHO there should just have been one downwards bend after the steamdome, like a Jensen...or at least just one knee taking it back to horisontal, in line with the oiler.
Besides a cleaner look, it would most likely also reduce the condensed water slurping, making the engine this hard to get going initially, if it didn´t have to drain that water trap on every startup.

However, this latter objection of mine, might easily turn out to be a well pondered business decision.
First off, it shows of a bit more of the PMR piping options, which is in stock with MiniSteam as well.
Secondarely it does take it a bit further away, from being in direct competion with the Jensen line, seing that it already has one of their boilers installed as well.

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Author Topic: Westbury Cheddar live steam engine plant from "Mini-Steam" (Read 1318 times)

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