So today was "look at the model traction engine that the club has inherited."
Plan - To develop a plan for work required for the club to get some use (What sort of use?) from it besides a dust collector on the floor beneath the shelves of other engines and stuff that collect dust...
The engine:
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Runs at <10psi of air.
Boiler does not leak. But the whole is 70 years old (finished 1954) and has sat for over 30 years at the back of the builder's garage.
It is an heirloom, and the club owns it "to display", or whatever, not sell.....
But it will need a boiler test to run the engine in public....
That is a full strip-out for examination as there is no continuity of certification. To certify it as a "new" or reconditioned boiler needs full drawings, calculations, inspection and testing...
So it may become just a static model...
Ho hum... Is that retirement? - Or what?
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