(DIR) Return Create A Forum - Home --------------------------------------------------------- Office of Steam Forum for Model &amp ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Toy Steam Gas &amp ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Hot Air Engines (HTM) https://officeofsteamforum.createaforum.com --------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** (DIR) Return to: Restorations ***************************************************** #Post#: 40248-------------------------------------------------- Re: Bargain 1/2 hp G. Sipp .... the good, the bad & the ugly By: Jim Date: April 12, 2021, 9:04 pm --------------------------------------------------------- How's the progress going on this beast Daniel? Any head way? #Post#: 40250-------------------------------------------------- Re: Bargain 1/2 hp G. Sipp .... the good, the bad & the ugly By: Stoker Date: April 12, 2021, 9:23 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Not a lick of progress on it lately Jim. But I'll certainly have to be getting back to it before too much longer, as it sits on my workbench and takes up entirely too much space! Really can't even reload around it!!! I had it all apart at one point early on, discovered all of its deep dark secrets (read as problems), made some minor but needful repairs and adjustments, then reassembled just in time to run it a little at the GPU. It needs to be completely disassembled again, and some real work done on it, but in point of fact it does have issues that will preclude it ever being a first class engine, so the motivation is not strong to do too much work on it at this point. I have been totally occupied with a few other projects, that I should probably do some more documentation on and post up here, but in fact have found little time for adding that documentation project to the other projects list. There is really a wealth of things I should be sharing here these days, but just can't seem to sit at the computer long enough to do that. I'm always astounded by how some of you folks manage to put up amazing things on what seems a daily basis. If I were trying to do that I'd never get anything else done ..... and believe me, I'm getting little enough done already, without any of the photography, loading and typing to slow me down! ;c) #Post#: 40252-------------------------------------------------- Re: Bargain 1/2 hp G. Sipp .... the good, the bad & the ugly By: Jim Date: April 12, 2021, 9:53 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update Daniel appreciated mate. And I know myself and can probably speak for all....we love to see what you're working on. Its a shame the big beast had some serious internal issues, I'm sure when you can give it some dedicated time you will overcome the majority of them. A consolation is that at least its a nice looking engine to look at! #Post#: 40302-------------------------------------------------- Re: Bargain 1/2 hp G. Sipp .... the good, the bad & the ugly By: txlabman Date: April 13, 2021, 9:18 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update Daniel. We all know it is in good hands. Regards, Charlie #Post#: 40313-------------------------------------------------- Re: Bargain 1/2 hp G. Sipp .... the good, the bad & the ugly By: Stoker Date: April 13, 2021, 10:42 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Well now I thought that today I would take off from all my current projects and just go back a couple of months and do some needful catch-up here on the Forum, with posts that I'd left dangling .... especially this big Sipp. Promised Jim I'd give him a heads up on an idler pulley set-up for his Baker fan, and I did that first thing this morning, but that is all I managed to get done in that way today. Shortly after getting that done I got called out to a new Graffiti site near our community, so I hiked out to check on that, and while there a major wind event set in so that my remediation experimentation was cut a bit short, but wasn't likely to be very successful in any case. Not too long after returning home the SCE decided discretion was the better part of valor, and shut off the local power grid in what is known as a Public Safety Power Shutdown (PSPS) because the wind and weather conditions created an extreme fire hazard situation, so I was without power, or internet for most of the rest of the day. Power came back on just an hour or so ago, and what with fixing dinner and resetting clocks, the day got away from me without attending to most of what I'd hoped to do. My excuse is that Friday the 13th came on a Tuesday this month ...... and my Lord and Master Murphy made full use of it!!! ***************************************************** (DIR) Previous Page (DIR) Next Page