Steaming Minnie or small engines

Edited By mick H on 29/08/2011 09:58:27

Thanks to everyone who gave tips. Minnie has now steamed successfully apart from the feed pump not producing enough water into the boiler. I've replaced the bronze balls with Viton and expect this to do the job. I've added a couple of photos of the finished product to my album. Next job will be to strip and paint it, but that can wait for the warmer weather.

What a fabulous model.

How much was bought as kit parts and how much did you make ?

Last picture says ready for painting, did you finish it off ?

More pics would be nice.

Chris

Thats is rather nice, isn't it?

Well Done Capn'

Neil

Very nice workmanship there Cap'n! Will look really great when you get around to painting it.

Martin.

Thanks for the nice comments guys. I haven't done anything further since my last posting as we had a couple of months in the UK visiting with a new grandson. The southern hemisphere summer is coming upon us now so probably not much will be done until next year. I now have a set of Quorn castings on the bench which were donated by a friend. It is very tempting to start on that, but I must resist and finish Minnie.

In answer to Chris J - I bought a set of castings and gear blanks from A J Reeves in 1976 when I was in the UK for a couple of months. The project was very stop start for the next 30 odd years as we brought up a family and I persued a career. Retirement gave me the incentive to finish the job.

While in the UK we went to the Essex country fair at Barleylands near Billericay. If you want to see traction engines, both full size and models, in steam I would recommend this show. Would you believe 60 full size engines and the same number of models ranging from 6" scale down, all in steam. Really interesting were 4 pairs of winding engines plowing and harrowing a field.