Cheap Chinese Temu Steam Boat

[JimDobson]

Cheap Chinese Temu Steam Boat

 

[minh-thanh]

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[JimDobson]

"Show them off here! Gallery quality or your first runner. We'd love to see it!" Forum : Model Engine Machinery Forum

Its been over a year, don't start this again mate.

 

[JimDobson]

Grandson will be here over the weekend, looking forward to seeing what we can make of this boat and see how many ways it can be improved.....stay tuned.

 

[minh-thanh]

Its been over a year, don't start this again mate.

10 years... from now it will still be Forum : Home Model Engine Machinist Forum

 

[Bill Jones]

I think there'd be some fun improvements and simple that you and your grandson could enjoy doing together to get that little boat putt-putting along.

 

[Tug40]

When I was 8 or 9 (I’m 76 now) I had a little boat about the same size, made in Japan.
It was made of pressed tin & run by a small candle similar to this with exhaust pipes from the tiny boiler where the propeller would be.
My mom bought it for me at the grocery store.
Great fun in the bathtub.

 

[JimDobson]

This is my Putt Putt boat (clinker built) with a Blaxland Chapman inboard motor (start with a leather belt) that I completely rebuilt and made many parts for out the front of my home on our private mooring poles that I did up in the ’80s (now long gone) these were really common inboard motor timber boats when I was a boy, but when aluminium boats became common these were quickly abandoned because of the amount of maintenace. But they were just great to fish out of and had a lot more ‘soul’ than boats I’ve had moored out the front since that.