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8_10 Brass Cleaner
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another home buildBeen sort of busy in the workshop today.
I turned a bare and dinted mamod minor 2 boiler and engine frame (from the GDSF) into this, using some spares, two sizes of brass tube and some bits and bobs.
Its not finished yet, it wants a polish, and a nice flat base making, oh and some paint. Perhaps also a brass rim to the flywheel, but thats easy sorted.
I threw it together to see if it would run. The regualtor is a nice feature, and you may have noticed a 'must have' on my home builds.
The home made piston rod (a nail) makes a very unsubtle knock. Some cotton wrapped round a groove in the piston also gives some nice compression in the cylinder. And with the chimney it actually chuffs.
So what do you guys think?
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Spokesmann
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Different, a sort of super MM2! 
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MFSteam
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8/10 Good to hear from You.
I've got to admit when I first looked at the pics an hour or so ago I thought whats the point of that?
I've just had a good look at it and it has really grown on me, I rather like it, the flat base will really help it.
Just a thought to neaten up the steam pipes you could swap the exhaust and inlet round. The engine will run the other way but would it matter? The pipe runs would be so much neater and easier to run.
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8_10 Brass Cleaner
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| MFSteam wrote: | 8/10 Good to hear from You.
I've got to admit when I first looked at the pics an hour or so ago I thought whats the point of that?
I've just had a good look at it and it has really grown on me, I rather like it, the flat base will really help it.
Just a thought to neaten up the steam pipes you could swap the exhaust and inlet round. The engine will run the other way but would it matter? The pipe runs would be so much neater and easier to run. |
LOL, there was more work in it than you think, all I had of the minor was an engine frame and a boiler that some numbnuts had yanked the chimney off leaving a fcuk off big hole and a large dint.
Even with the endcap off and a manrel I couldn't get the dint out so I moved the frame to cover it up and to save the boiler.
I hate engines with no regulator so It had to have one, so I modified a whistle, also fitted a whistle just cos I had one and because I had to make and fit an extra insert.
The firebox is mamod out of the spares box (no idea off what it came via e-bay by itself) as is the base, it is also a MM2 item, but isn't staying. The flywheel and crank came off the traction engine I made into a portable. I had to drill out the crank holes to suit, they were tiny.
The cylinder was an oddity in my spares box, has mamod dims, yet is one lump (like an early MM1 one but bigger) I only had a very worn piston with no rod so I used a nail, as the piston was worn I filed a groove in it and wrapped cotton and a graphite/cylinder oil mix around the groove till it was a good fit.
I take your point about the pipes, I have to admit that the chimney was at the regulator end to begin with so the pipes were tidy, but the chimney looked wrong. I altered it, but didnt have any spare pipe to remake both. I may do so at some point
Also the exhaust port is bigger than the inlet, I also didn't want to effect the running.
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MFSteam
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By the sounds of it, You really have made something from nothing, well done. The one piece cylinder you are using is standard post war Mamod as used on the Minor 2, SE1,2 and very early 3's
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Nick
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That turned out very nice!
It would look better with the flat base, and maybe an older style burner.
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John Chapman
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Super little engine
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8_10 Brass Cleaner
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Here is the finished item.
I didn't get round to a brass rim for the flywheel, christmas being expensive, and an ankle biter on the way I decided the money was better spent elsewhere.
I may make a 2 or 3 wick burner at some point, but untill then the vapourising Mamod one will do.
I think the flat base makes a world of difference.
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MFSteam
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That base really does "make it"
Well done
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JJ
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All credit to you mate, thats bloody marvelous.
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John Chapman
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Ooh! That is really super, congratulations
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avenger
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Nice job.
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Spokesmann
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Bowmod! As the chaps say the flat base really evokes a feeling of the the flatbase Mamod era! The base mounted chimney that of an M122 or M135. Top job!
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Mamod Collector
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I like that, its kind of the SE3 of the MM range with its whistle and speed regulator
I'm not to keen on the blue paint though, it brings back awfull memories of the SP range 
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newts
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Well done 8-10, something about flat bases, they just look right with an engine.
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8_10 Brass Cleaner
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| Mamod Collector wrote: |
I'm not to keen on the blue paint though, it brings back awfull memories of the SP range |
Ah well, you see, 15odd years ago when I transformed my spoked wheel roadster into a stationary engine, I made a brass engine frame etc and a flat brass base. When I painted it, I used the royal blue paint my father ws using to paint his Marshall, and I found some deep dark red for the base.
Every engine I have modified or made I have painted in these colours. My 'house' colours as it were,
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