NOW I'm REALLY done!!!!!

[Buckshot Bear]

Been adding and adding.........NOW I'm REALLY done!!!!! (before the door comes off its hinges  )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stump Water]

Very cool.

[Rip Snorter]

Simple to gauge its success! Very creative and great fun.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

Nicely done 

[Pat Riot]

Very nice. 

 

Love that bell. 

[Pat Riot]

I can’t help but think how funny it would be to hook one of those valve handles to an alarm that blows a horn if someone grabs it. 
People just can’t leave knobs and valve handles alone. 

[Buckshot Bear]

18 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I can’t help but think how funny it would be to hook one of those valve handles to an alarm that blows a horn if someone grabs it. 
People just can’t leave knobs and valve handles alone. 

 

LOL that made me smile!

I have made it so that everything turns.....the grandkids LOVE it!
They think they're in an old submarine

 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

You've got the bell, no whistle? Put one on there and connect it to a small nitrogen or CO2 tank. 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

You know you have plenty of room on the other side of the door.  😄

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

3 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

You know you have plenty of room on the other side of the door.  😄

That's where he'll mount the N2 or CO2 tank for the whistle.

[J-BAR #18287]

Inspiring!

[watab kid]

huh , ive not thought of mini tranes since i bought a lionel set for my grandkid 10 years ago , - cool 

[Buckshot Bear]

29 minutes ago, watab kid said:

huh , ive not thought of mini tranes since i bought a lionel set for my grandkid 10 years ago , - cool 

 

No trains.....my steam collection are all either stationary steam engines or steam traction engines, but don't worry when I tell people my hobby is steam engines 100% of people instantly think or say "trains". 

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

No trains.....my steam collection are all either stationary steam engines or steam traction engines, but don't worry when I tell people my hobby is steam engines 100% of people instantly think or say "trains". 

Clearly on the wrong track!

[Buckshot Bear]

I must commend my darling wife Jenorado for encouraging my hobby and also for not minding that the engines have well and truly escaped from the steam room for lack of room and are populating nooks and crannies throughout our home. 

[Buckshot Bear]

1 minute ago, Rip Snorter said:

Clearly on the wrong track!

 

Your quips are always good.....but some are just great!!!!

🤣😃😁

[watab kid]

2 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

No trains.....my steam collection are all either stationary steam engines or steam traction engines, but don't worry when I tell people my hobby is steam engines 100% of people instantly think or say "trains". 

ok , i get it now , ive never gotten into that but i do know a couple people that have interest and yes i do see the difference , its like when i was a kid and went to the threshing shows here , those were real old steam engines running real old farm equipment that did real work , i always found the fascinating but mostly because they were old and i barely understood them save for the belt drives that powered them , 

my main connection was my grandfatjher who had been a railroad man till the 20s when he designed and produced a grist mill - that failed when the times changed and farmers started sending their grain to coops instead of doing it themselves on their farms  , 

[Wild Eagle]

First, way cool.  Not just the door, but the entire room.  And the steam engines you build are very interesting and beautiful pieces of work.  I have enjoyed the videos you have posted of them running.

 

Now get out to the work bench, build some heavy-duty hinges and get on with the other side of the door.  We're all waiting to see what you do with it now that you have practiced on the first side.😁

[Buckshot Bear]

Just so pards know what I'm talking about -

 

An example of a stationary steam engine 

 

 

An example of steam traction engine

[watab kid]

this is really cool stiff - im not a collector but id spend lots of time looking at these things , 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

Clearly on the wrong track!

At least he doesn't get steamed about it. But I'm betting that he goes balls to the walls more than the rest of us do. 

[Buckshot Bear]

48 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

At least he doesn't get steamed about it. But I'm betting that he goes balls to the walls more than the rest of us do. 

 

Very clever Sgt....a lot of people use that saying and they don't have any idea where it originates from. 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

I was led to understand that "balls to the wall" was a WWII fighter pilot indicating full throttle .... (the ball on the end of the throttle was pushed hard against the firewall)

 

 

I might be in error

 

[Buckshot Bear]

One term for a steam engine running at maximum speed is “balls to the wall” and is in reference to the governors ball shaped weights being fully extended.

(It may be in reference to other things as well ???)

[Pat Riot]

8 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Your quips are always good.....but some are just great!!!!

🤣😃😁

Do Not Encourage Him. He’s MAD, I tell you!

[Eyesa Horg]

36 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

One term for a steam engine running at maximum speed is “balls to the wall” and is in reference to the governors ball shaped weights being fully extended.

(It may be in reference to other things as well ???)

That's was my understanding as well.

[John Kloehr]

2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

One term for a steam engine running at maximum speed is “balls to the wall” and is in reference to the governors ball shaped weights being fully extended.

(It may be in reference to other things as well ???)

I learned it originally a "balls out" in reference to the spinning governor, do hear it both ways. I have heard the "wall" variation may have come from ships, subs, or locomotives, but never found a definitive reference.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

11 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

You know you have plenty of room on the other side of the door.  😄

Are you sure?  

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

10 hours ago, watab kid said:

ok , i get it now , ive never gotten into that but i do know a couple people that have interest and yes i do see the difference , its like when i was a kid and went to the threshing shows here , those were real old steam engines running real old farm equipment that did real work , i always found the fascinating but mostly because they were old and i barely understood them save for the belt drives that powered them , 

my main connection was my grandfatjher who had been a railroad man till the 20s when he designed and produced a grist mill - that failed when the times changed and farmers started sending their grain to coops instead of doing it themselves on their farms  , 

There was a two day steam traction engine show in the north parking lot at a Red Lion Inn near our home in California.  61 (?) different engines , some were stationary rigs......and they had a real live calliope on a semi trailer with the boiler on a flatbed along side. We walked over to visit on the Saturday it opened and had a real ball for most of a day, got to ride behind a couple, the kids were carefully monitored as they were allowed to crawl over some of them.  Food, candy, games, fun. and souvenirs for everybody.  Lots of cameras, a TV crew, and a couple of tourist buses.

 

Exciting, colorful, hot, and NOISY!

 

It took the Red Lion over a month to repair their blacktop parking lot, some busted up concrete sidewalks and curbs and a huge patch of lawn.....and about a hundred feet of city access street along side.

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

You need this>

 

[Sedalia Dave]

14 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

You've got the bell, no whistle? Put one on there and connect it to a small nitrogen or CO2 tank. 

 

THIS ^^^^

 

Except it may need to be connected to an air compressor as the grandkids will soon run one of those tanks out of air.

[DeaconKC]

[Buckshot Bear]

12 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

THIS ^^^^

 

Except it may need to be connected to an air compressor as the grandkids will soon run one of those tanks out of air.

 

I have an air line running from my workshop air compressor  underground and up into my steam room for testing steam engines on compressed air. 

[watab kid]

15 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

There was a two day steam traction engine show in the north parking lot at a Red Lion Inn near our home in California.  61 (?) different engines , some were stationary rigs......and they had a real live calliope on a semi trailer with the boiler on a flatbed along side. We walked over to visit on the Saturday it opened and had a real ball for most of a day, got to ride behind a couple, the kids were carefully monitored as they were allowed to crawl over some of them.  Food, candy, games, fun. and souvenirs for everybody.  Lots of cameras, a TV crew, and a couple of tourist buses.

 

Exciting, colorful, hot, and NOISY!

 

It took the Red Lion over a month to repair their blacktop parking lot, some busted up concrete sidewalks and curbs and a huge patch of lawn.....and about a hundred feet of city access street along side.

thats exactly what i recall as a kid - at both tjhe steam engine events and at the " waterloo dairy cattle congress" in waterloo iowa - dont know if thats still an event but in the 50s it was everything you might see at the state fair or at any of the prairie area events back then