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  1. 29th December 2008, 08:07 PM #16
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    i had a couple of steam engines when i was a kid , loved em and wish i still had em .
    dad bought me a lot of that kind of stuff cos he was a marine engineer and served his time on steam engines , and steam driven ships at sea in the merchant navy as ships engineer ,steam gets in ya blood like saw dust can
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  3. 29th December 2008, 08:09 PM #17
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    Hey weisy, it's a technical foul to reinvent the steam engine before reinventing the wheel you know.

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    ps you need a heavier flywheel.
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    why do u say i need a heavier flywheel?

    it starts on its own and runs fine in my opinion

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    As always Carl, you are right. It must be the refresh rate of my monitor.

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