What were they thinking?

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

Just seen this ont bay – described as "a beautifully built 1 1/2 scale allchin traction engine"…..with a now totally destroyed boiler!

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

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

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

If that were the case then great, I hadnt realised they were built that way. Looks terrible all the same.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

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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