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I first thought that was a cute little 2 cylinder steam engine. Then I realized it was just the starter motor for the real one. Yikes is an understatement.
 
On my "bucket list" of places I want to visit. Amazingly enough even though they look like Victorian era steam engines they were used to pump water until 1980.

Walter - if you haven't found it already you probably would like Dave Richards Steam Powered Machine Shop - look for it on YouTube. He is running a turn of the century style steam powered machine shop using it for real work.
 
Bayless said:
I first thought that was a cute little 2 cylinder steam engine. Then I realized it was just the starter motor for the real one. Yikes is an understatement.
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I liked how the video was intentionally misleading when it started, just focusing on the guy starting up the little two cylinder engine.
 
70herald said:
On my "bucket list" of places I want to visit. Amazingly enough even though they look like Victorian era steam engines they were used to pump water until 1980.

Walter - if you haven't found it already you probably would like Dave Richards Steam Powered Machine Shop - look for it on YouTube. He is running a turn of the century style steam powered machine shop using it for real work.
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I have not found him, so I know what I'm doing tonight.
 
70herald said:
Walter - if you haven't found it already you probably would like Dave Richards Steam Powered Machine Shop - look for it on YouTube. He is running a turn of the century style steam powered machine shop using it for real work.
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Back in the day we lived in Amish country. Gideon Stutzman - who I got to know as he made some furniture for me, had a belt driven diesel powered shop. Quite amazing until you realized how few of those guys had all their fingers. (BTW we were the same age - mid 20's - and he had just had his 5th child) yikes!
 
Every day is a no-tie day at that shop. When I first started restoring my Healey, I used an antient machine shop in Carpinteria, Ca to do some welding / plasma cutting and light fabrication work. In the shop all the machinery was belt-driven from a main belt pulley system mounted high up on the ceiling. The owner asked if I would be interested in purchasing the place. That was 1990. Steps away from the beach on Linden Ave., the building still manages to survive urban development.
 
A few years ago, we met a friend for dinner in London who was our Manager of European Operations. He had worked around the World. He said:

" The Americans are proud of their biotechnology, the Japanese are proud of their electronics, the British are proud of their steam engines."
 
This is famously featured in my favorite movie of all time! :D When I visited the UK several years ago, I managed to be there on a day when it was in operation!! I was a kid in a candy shop! Unfortunately, Lord Scrumptious was not there that day and no one seemed to know where he was. Have you guessed the movie yet? :D(y):D
 
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BTW only the author of a character in another movie named Pu**y Galore would also name a character for a children's book, Truly Scrumptious
 
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