Progress on the engine is currently consisting of cleaning, wire brushing, cleaning, wire brushing and more cleaning. A slow and laborious task that has to be done before any real painting and restoration work can take place. Not very exciting and certainly not good blog reading. Still, it has to be done.
During those times that I've not been cleaning, wire........etc etc, various searches for info and connections for National engines have thrown up a few video clips. If you've got a few minutes spare have a look (and listen):
The first three are of the Stewarts & Lloyds Tug No3 'Vesta' (2DM)
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w67/gusickle/?action=view¤t=MOV01370.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzKAC5uxTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shli2k_HFC8
The next two are MB Swallow and her 2DM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBG48nnGqUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweaeC1PKAo
and finishing off with the small woolwich Alcor with her 2DM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tOjTY5n5wU
I don't think I'm contravening any copyright by publishing the links as they're all out in the public domain. If anyone has any objections or would like some recognition for them, let me know.
Enjoy
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I had to come running up the stairs to see what the sound was when Jim started playing those clips! There's a clip of our engine running here:
http://nbwarrior.blogspot.com/2007/09/sound-and-vision.html
(If it doesn't link it's the first post in the archive for September 07) The quality's terrible but I thought you might like a three pot to add to the collection!
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