Chris's Holly Pumping Engine Build

[cnr6400]

  Fantastic job Chris! 

[RReid]

Absolutely awesome, Chris! Congratulations! 

[crueby]

The shop elves yelled at me for not posting a picture with them on the engine. Okay guys, here you go!

And after that picture, we got to work with hooking up some extensions to the water inlet/outlet tubes and filling up a pan of water on the inlet end. When I started up the engine, it immediately started drawing water up the inlet tubes, and several revolutions later it started coming out the outlet side and filling up the tank on that end!       Here is a video of it running and pumping water. It looks like the flow rate is close to a gallon a minute at this engine speed, with no jets of water across the room. After I shut it down there was one little puddle at the inlet end, maybe a teaspoons worth. Not bad!!
[youtube1]https://youtu.be/qzmxfH7x9fA[/youtube1]
Incredibly pleased with its performance!  Going to play with the room lights and get out the tripod for some final photos, and I'll put up a post over on the Showcase subforum. Its been about 11 months to the actual build, plus the several years as a background project creating the 3D CAD model from the original builders blueprints.
Chris

[RReid]

Even more congratulations!!

[Roger B]

Wonderful      Please give my regards to the Elves 

[horst.b.0]

Congratulations, it’s such a beautiful engine, what a wonderful achievement! 

[Ye-Ole Steam Dude]

Absolutely Incredible 

[Admiral_dk]

Stunning, Amazing .... I give up - out of superlatives ....        

.... except for a minor detail - lack of colours on the staff - they do not look right   

.... maybe even some dirt and signs of daily use 

            Per

[wagnmkr]

I can't imagine how thrilled you must have been to see the first bit of water go where it was supposed to and not all over the shop floor. You will likely have to get bigger hard hats for the elves now as there heads will likely swell!.

Incredible achievement!

[crueby]

Thanks very much everyone! 

And Per, a lifelike paint job on the manager figures would give me nightmares...     I'm still on the lookout for some figures in everyday workers clothes to replace them.

Just finished taking some more video and photos, about to post them over in the Showcase section of the forum...

[Don1966]

Excellent in every aspect of this wonderful build Dog, you have out done yourself at every turn. It’s fascinating to watch it pump after all that work. Your the man Chris and a very skilled craftsman. When I grow up I want to be just  like you…..


 
Don

[Kim]

Too cool, Chris! 

Kim

[Larry]

Just absolutely fantastic ! Another great build. Have certainly enjoyed following along. Your confidence and skill is to be admired.

[PJPickard]

wow. wow. wow. wow.

[sid pileski]

Let me add my congratulations to the list!
Very nice work, and the speed at which you make the parts is impressive too.

What's next???

Sid