(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: ENGINEERS HALL at Our 2024 GLOBAL POWER-UP -- Virtu... ***************************************************** #Post#: 61023-------------------------------------------------- RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: RedRyder Date: March 1, 2024, 8:48 pm --------------------------------------------------------- First up for tonight.... A couple of Jensen #50s These videos were shot 6 and 10 years ago. Enjoy! Gil (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7m_a5LOMw (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NTnPRFekSg #Post#: 61026-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: St Paul Steam Date: March 1, 2024, 9:25 pm --------------------------------------------------------- That's some very old Iron there. I was waiting for this .😀 #Post#: 61030-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: Stoker Date: March 1, 2024, 11:10 pm --------------------------------------------------------- That all seems so right at home there in the Office of Steam! Power On my Friend!!! #Post#: 61039-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: gbritnell Date: March 2, 2024, 6:48 am --------------------------------------------------------- Beautiful engines! My how times have changed! When I was a kid I would have died for a live steam engine like these, nowadays it's a box with a phone or video game under the tree. #Post#: 61062-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: RedRyder Date: March 2, 2024, 11:22 am --------------------------------------------------------- Today I will show the Stuart Turner Cygnet. This one was built by Stuart Turner at Henley on Thames ca 1950's to early 60s. I was fortunate to acquire it in October 2021. It was still as a new unsteamed engine although in need of a fine tuning and clean up as one might expect for a 60-70 year old machine. Below are 3 videos telling part of the story. Enjoy, Gil (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgMRlMmP6co (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_28ZrJINRM (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJelvfQqS5U #Post#: 61064-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: Stoker Date: March 2, 2024, 11:40 am --------------------------------------------------------- You need a watercraft for that beautiful monster Gil! #Post#: 61068-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: RedRyder Date: March 2, 2024, 11:53 am --------------------------------------------------------- And here is the her big brother.... The twin cylinder Stuart Turner Swan. Also acquired as new about 20 years ago. Factory built by Stuart Turner at Henley on Thames. A collector friend, Tim Mason found it in the Cabin Fever consignment tables and came to find me immediately to say he had found something I needed. He was absolutely right so I paid, brought it back to my table where the consignor, Holly Hollerith, saw it and introduced himself to me. He and I have been great friends in steam ever since and we talk regularly. He acquired it in the early 1990s from a Sotheby's auction. I cleaned up, kept it well oiled and run on air at home, at Cabin Fever, and the NAMES show and a few others. Enjoy! Gil (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkcGgZYKp4 ------------------------------ [attachimg=1] [attachimg=2] [attachimg=3] #Post#: 61070-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: Stoker Date: March 2, 2024, 12:04 pm --------------------------------------------------------- So if Big is Beautiful, as is certainly the case with the Stuart Cygnet ... that begs the question, is twice as Big then twice as Beautiful?!?! I think not .... Twice as Big is actually Beauty squared .... at least in this instance!!! #Post#: 61074-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: RedRyder Date: March 2, 2024, 12:14 pm --------------------------------------------------------- From the same time frame as the Swan and Cygnet... is this Stuart Turner 800, not a model but a small full sized gas engine of 1/4 HP. There are very few of these out there. This one was purchased as raw castings by Andrew Burr ca 1958 when he was 18 years old. A neighbor on Long Island, Harry Goodman of the Long Island Live Steamers built this one for him as well as a Stuart 5A. Harry was a highly skilled machinists and builder and did a wonderful job with this piece. It is a hit & miss engine but rather than hold the exhaust valve open, the governor lifts a tab to stop activating the fuel injector until it needs to fire again. In order to bring this home I had to take on 26 engines.... Andy Burr's entire model engine collection. The other 25 were all steam engines. Enjoy! Gil (HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsiaPI71yCg #Post#: 61075-------------------------------------------------- Re: RedRyder's Table at the 2024 Global Power Up By: RedRyder Date: March 2, 2024, 12:16 pm --------------------------------------------------------- [quote author=Stoker link=topic=6960.msg61070#msg61070 date=1709402672] So if Big is Beautiful, as is certainly the case with the Stuart Cygnet ... that begs the question, is twice as Big then twice as Beautiful?!?! I think not .... Twice as Big is actually Beauty squared .... at least in this instance!!! [/quote] Thank you for the kind words, Daniel..!! Gil ***************************************************** (DIR) Next Page