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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    Spare parts are available. https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_...co+filler+plug

    I have a traction engine. Purchased as a kit by my parents in Germany and assembled about 20 years ago. I have built a carry box for it. About 18 years since I last steamed it.
    These days I operate engines which have a scale of 1000mm to the metre.
    Now that'd be something worth posting in toys Kevin...Please....cheers Peter
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    You can still buy those steam models. They're expensive.

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    https://www.freewebs.com/ozsteam/restoration.htm

    This link has information on some spares for the Scorpion donkey engines such as safety valve plans and the original sticker. The new sticker on mine most probably came from there I would say.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    Thank you! Can you guess what I'm retrieving the next time I'm down Vic way?

    I have a traction engine. Purchased as a kit by my parents in Germany and assembled about 20 years ago. I have built a carry box for it. About 18 years since I last steamed it.
    These days I operate engines which have a scale of 1000mm to the metre.
    I guess it's a misnomer to call these li'l fellers "toys." They're just very small boilers... and have the same basic risks attached as their bigger brothers.

    Still, way back then I loved the annual sound of the Traction engines trundling past in the wee hours of the morning as they were travelled to our local agricultural show. A different league to my li'l Mamod! I don't know how many nights I was woken by 'em... and dropped back off to sleep to dream I was on the footplate.

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    FWIW I worked as a pilot shunter at the Avon marshalling yards near Northam, WA in the late '60s. By that time steam had already been superseded by diesel but there were still engines around. One regular was a tourist train that ran from Perth to Toodyay where it would unload its passengers then travel on to Avon Yard to be turned around for the return trip. My job was to meet the loco as it arrived and guide it through the yard to where it could be turned then send it on its way back to Perth. On the days over 40° I used to relieve the fireman shovelling coal into the boiler for the trip through the yard (I was young ). Not a lot of health and safety concerns in those days...

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    Here's one I prepared earlier, about 41 years earlier actually, this was my school certificate metalwork project.

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    I cast aluminium blanks for the wheels, smokebox & smokestack, then turned them to shape.
    I was looking at it only last week, thinking I should clean it & fix a couple of things on it.

    Skew, the safety valves are easy to make. It's just a brass plug drilled through & countersunk on the top for a loose fit on a 1/8" brass countersunk screw. Tension is provided by a small spring (I used one from a pen) & nut on the screw.

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    Here is the carry box and my model traction engine. In the box are the essentials - tools, oil, fuel and matches. There are also drive belts. The roof is on a rack as I have not attached it to the engine. The last image shows a trailer I have for the engine and it too has a wood box with a clear window.
    The engine has rubber tyres on it. The model only drives the left rear wheel and the plain metal surface does not really provide much "traction". I fitted a rubber band and that improved things. Over time the rubber band perished, not that I was running the engine, so purchased the tyres from eBay. I have not run the engine since fitting the tyres.

    If ever I attend a Forum GTG in Melbourne it is possible that I would bring one or two of these items (the boxes) as they were made by me. They may not be perfect, but they are functional.
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    Then there's this for those with deeper pockets (though not steam). Make sure you turn up the volume a bit...:

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    SWMBO gave me a Mamod steam e gine for my birthday about 40 years ago. I gave it to a nephew about 5 years ago.

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    Finally got around to restoring the old steam engine, now it's better than when I first made it. Should be good for another 40 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 62woollybugger View Post
    Finally got around to restoring the old steam engine, now it's better than when I first made it. Should be good for another 40 years.

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    Very good job WB, I am tossing up selling mine, no one in the family seems to want it.
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