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Thursday, 3 April 2014

Today's Haul

The postman dropped these off today...


A Karsten Gintschel 'Tornado' steam turbine with accompanying train set and a Cheddar Models 'Pipit' steam plant. The Cheddar plant came in exchange for a Wilesco Steam Roller and the turbine came off of eBay. 

The Carpenter came around this afternoon with a bottle of meths and we ran the turbine 4 or 5 times...each run is only about 5 minutes so that's not as impressive a feat as it sounds. The sound it makes is fantastic though!

Will put a bit more information on the turbine once I have some photos and video of it running. I have yet to make my mind up about the Cheddar plant. She'll either be going into a loco, a small boat or into a replica of the Cheddar 'Pipit' generating plant...

The Engineer. 

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  1. Anonymous8 May 2014 at 06:49

    Aren't those a dream.

    Duck

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    1. Manbench Industries8 May 2014 at 23:32

      They are rather Mr Duck! I have put up some photographs of the turbine in operation today.

      The Engineer

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