Chris's Marion 91 Steam Shovel

[Ye-Ole Steam Dude]

Hello Chris,

Beautiful video. I am lost for words to give you the proper acknowledgment for this build. With all that everyone has already stated combined it seems to fall short. So I will simply say, an almost impossible job done very well.

Have a great day,
Thomas

[Brian Rupnow]

Chris--Absolute magic. Video works fine. You are my hero!!!---Brian

[sco]

Just brilliant Chris - incredible detective work to understand how it all worked never mind building a working model of it as well!

Top job!

Simon.

[crueby]

Thanks guys!  Very much appreciated!   
And Youtube appears to have fixed its broken uploader, so I switched the video link back to them, so it now shows up inline in the post.

[jonesie]

Chris a great job well done ,very impressive work on the design and build

[cnr6400]

Great video Chris, thanks for sharing it! My hat's off to you on the build, great work. 

(and possibly profitable, when you return the shop elves' 43,256 Elfensteiner cans and 17,374 stubby bottles    )   

Look forward to your next project.     

[crueby]

Great video Chris, thanks for sharing it! My hat's off to you on the build, great work. 

(and possibly profitable, when you return the shop elves' 43,256 Elfensteiner cans and 17,374 stubby bottles    )   

Look forward to your next project.     

Profit is all gone, had to buy a truck to haul the cans/bottles in!   

[crueby]

Chris a great job well done ,very impressive work on the design and build

Thanks Jonesie!

[Kim]

Amazing work, Chris!
Thanks for sharing it with us and thanks for that great video!
Kim

[Jo]

Well done Chris 

Sadly you have not made it to 300 pages on the build thread    but there is always the next model build    Speaking of which: Stanley Steamer next?

Jo

[Twizseven]

Absolutely phenomenal build. The shop elves must be really proud of their master.
 I am in awe at what you have achieved in a relatively short time. Well done Sir. 
Colin

[steam guy willy]

Thats a beautiful model and a really well documented build ...Something lovely to spire to  Looking forward to a new build

Willy

[crueby]

Well done Chris 

Sadly you have not made it to 300 pages on the build thread    but there is always the next model build    Speaking of which: Stanley Steamer next?

Jo

Well, we can fill in more pages with banter about Zee till he starts joining in again!   


I've been toying with the plans for the Stanley engine, may have come up with a plan to join the three sections into one block to make machining the port faces possible....

[cnr6400]

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Well, we can fill in more pages with banter about Zee till he starts joining in again!   


I've been toying with the plans for the Stanley engine, may have come up with a plan to join the three sections into one block to make machining the port faces possible....
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Does the plan include making a shaper attachment for your lathe, to machine the port faces just like the Stanley brothers (and lots of railway locomotive shops) did ?   

[Vixen]

Chris,

May I add my words of congratulations on finishing this magnificent project,

The engine is amazing in it's own right but you built it so quickly and also found the time for our daily updates

Well done. Bravo Bravo

Mike