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Funny thing is Deacon when people ask about my 'steam engine' hobby they all automatically think steam loco engines not stationary steam engines.

Yes sheila is just a term for a girl or lady.

"Karen" is huge down here now too....I feel really sorry for all the 'nice' Karens

I do always really enjoy watching and listening to the Hit & Miss engines running at shows, but they are just too big for me to get involved with.

Gnomes make great targets.

An exceedingly rare event. Far more crocs are killed by drop bears.

No capitalisations (I fixed the Z for you Alpo) for 'sheila' unless its a first name. i.e "We should go and introduce ourselves to that good lookin' bunch of sheila's over there"

The last 4-5 years I've branched out from just collecting and working on miniature steam engines to miniature hit & miss engines as well. The hours of mods, machining parts and building the wooden base etc I have in this one is enormous -

A lot of hit & miss engines suffered damage from water being left in them overnight in freezing weather. I do really like your fathers quote Linn "Oil field grade. Big and mean and hell for stout!"

Linn is the above Ried a Hit & Miss engine? Ok forget the above questions......just read about them here, they are a very interesting and very different type of engine - https://www.gasenginemagazine.com/gas-engines/engines-a-z/reid-model-a-gas-engine/

Thanks Deacon

Thanks Calamity Kris, its a fun hobby.

All the very best to you.

G'day Linn, PM Research has lots of good stuff for model engineers (and there's lots of other companies) here's a link to PM Research's fittings - https://pmmodelengines.com/pipe-fittings/?page=2 What I like about PM Research is that I can buy these unmachined brass casting trees below and cut them up and machine them up myself to the threads and pitch that I want. The only thing is, there's a lot of machining time in just one of those tiny parts....but it keeps me out of trouble

Yeah....there's a question there ....WHY????

Thanks Eyesa, they are fun things to lose myself with.