today I got another model steam engine off ebay, its a Stour Valley Steam Engines twin cylinder double acting oscillating marine engine (for use in toy boats), with a boiler certificate from 1996 and its never been used. I was watching it to copy the photos of the listing, and it started off at £10 or buy it now for £110 (it also had a reserve) I had no intention of buying it, but with about 30 minutes left it was showing bids of less than £30, then I started having a think about it and it was nice little engine and self starting. With a buy it now price of £110 it should have sold days ago, but hadn't. so I thought it would be rude not to buy it, (I think some people would have been waiting till the last minute to try and get it cheap. as part of the paperwork it looks like it was £140 back in 1996, so with hindsight it is a bargain buy. and for scale the base is 15cm long.
So why did I buy it? well not for putting into a model boat, but I do like the mechanisms of old school steam cranes like this one at Thwaite's Mill in Leeds and I wouldn't mind a model one.
it would be a few years before I get round to building one, and if I do, it will be made from Meccano , but most of the mechanism for a crane can be modified from a Meccano Supermodel 19A for the Steam Excavator from the 1920's /1930's.
so this is what it looks like in operation,
but using a single cylinder steam engine means you need to start it manually every time it stops, a self starting steam engine would be so much better.
so its just another project to do in years to come
So why did I buy it? well not for putting into a model boat, but I do like the mechanisms of old school steam cranes like this one at Thwaite's Mill in Leeds and I wouldn't mind a model one.
it would be a few years before I get round to building one, and if I do, it will be made from Meccano , but most of the mechanism for a crane can be modified from a Meccano Supermodel 19A for the Steam Excavator from the 1920's /1930's.
so this is what it looks like in operation,
but using a single cylinder steam engine means you need to start it manually every time it stops, a self starting steam engine would be so much better.
so its just another project to do in years to come
a better spec pc 2 years old so a bit older than mine but it's not been used hardly at all I can see that from the condition of the keyboard and mouse pad and the people I bought off was decent person bought it for gaming played it for a month then was left
