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Sanjay F:
Time for a new project and as I seem to be alternating between new builds and restorations, it's now time for a Stuart Williamson from castings. I do like a Stuart engines (no surprise to anyone) and this one is more unusual. I got the castings some time ago and I think they are older given the style of packaging; fortunately I didn't pay anywhere near the current Stuart Models price for them!

I have the original drawings which are not great and crammed onto A3 sheets; paper must have been a scarce commodity when these were drawn!  :D

However, I have the book 'Building the Williamson engine' by Tubal Cain which has larger and clearer drawings within its pages. I'll use a combination of the book and advice from the remarkably few builds of this engine on MEM or any other model engine websites; any gotchas or errors on drawings etc. most welcome

Right, looks like cleaning up the column is the 1st port of call ...............

55fairlane:
Watching with interest

Sanjay F:
The cleanup of the column may take a while to get a nice finish when painted. The column casting is not great and usually Stuart ones are pretty good, maybe its because it's Ali?

pgp001:
As castings go that is pretty dire, if you had just bought it from Stuart's I would be advising sending it back for a replacement.

I wondered if Stuart would sell a spare column casting for it still, and according to their website they do it in cast iron rather than aluminium. However it is £74 plus VAT so not cheap.
It may be worth approaching them anyway to see if could do a goodwill gesture and replace it for you.

Good luck with making it presentable, you have a lot of work to do on it.

Phil P

Charles Lamont:
Old Stuart Turner castings from Henley-on-Thames were excellent. Those from the Stuart Models, Guernsey, era are apparently* very variable. The Bridport foundry chap told me at MMEX a few years ago that on taking over they had to scrap half the stock.

(*I have no experience of them.)

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