You should buy that engine! A bit of excitement will take your mind off the cost of things and open a whole world of gadgets to buy.
I ALWAYS wanted a steam engine ever since I saw these at the Museum of Science and Industry Gift Store in Chicago
But no, the parental units were far too frugal to spring for such a wonder....
The Lister Diesels are marvels cast in old school iron!
They run on almost any burnable fuel, can be started just by rotating the flywheel,
and are still going in many 2nd and 3rd world countries, and in the outback regions where
heavy iron and reliability is paramount! They can be easiuly fixed with silver solder and baling wire,
and probably JB Weld.
They are as much
grief fun as the old hit-or-miss engines.
I ran across them whilst searching for DIY stationary steam engines, having seen several at the historic
farm I used to blacksmith at. ( aw crap you made me end my sentence in a proposition!)
However, after sufficient research into the things I discovered the reasons for moving away from such
dark ages tech as steam and lister diesels:
- there is a reason for the rqmt of a steam engineer license.
steam engines and boilers can and will kill ya. many historic blowups & deaths.
- Listers have a history of "runaway" and heating up to the point of dull red. Boom. Ouch. Poo.
but back to the insane stitcher...
the blasted thing is SOOOO reminiscent of the 1880's crank powered tools
If I get one, and actually manage to make it work, I can put it next to my 2 "hand presses"
kinda like this
I really need to build a new "shed" just to house my
crap books and "museum"
prf marvel