What were they thinking?

What were they thinking?

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26 April 2018 at 19:34 #351760
nigel jones 5
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Just seen this ont bay – described as "a beautifully built 1 1/2 scale allchin traction engine"…..with a now totally destroyed boiler!
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26 April 2018 at 19:34 #25952
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26 April 2018 at 19:39 #351762
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Looks like there are 16 hollow stays each side and the hornplates have just been put on with a couple of screws through 2 of the holes during construction. Whats wrong with that?

Similar to my 2" Fowler boiler made by a professional.

Edited By JasonB on 26/04/2018 19:53:21
26 April 2018 at 23:45 #351791
nigel jones 5
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If that were the case then great, I hadnt realised they were built that way. Looks terrible all the same.
27 April 2018 at 06:59 #351800
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The engine has just been tacked together during construction or for the sake of taking e-bay photos, I often just poped a couple of screws into mine during construction as that is all that's needed. Once finished if button heads are used then they don't look a lot different to the flattened head of the dummy smokebox stays particularly under a coat of paint. It's a very common way to build traction engine boilers.

My Minnie also used threaded hollow stays
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