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Adverts last modified: 20th March 2024

    FOR SALE

A range of useful steamboating items

20th March 2024

1. Very nice HMV Portable wind-up gramophone in good order together with a selection of appropriate 78’s to grace summer days on your period steam launch.

Price: £40   Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

 





















2.  Brand new (old stock) 24V Sinclair C5 motors. These heavily built but compact motors would be excellent for marine use. There are two of these still in original packing.

Price: £95 each   Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

This item can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.

    
























5.  Two bonneted 90 degree bronze globe valves – steam spec with PTFE seats. New old stock ½” BSP   Price: £80 the pair

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

These items can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.

               













6. Fully machined crankshaft for a Reeves Commander compound launch engine

This is a Don Merrett crankshaft cut from plate.   Price: £60

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

This item can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.





                 
















7. Old but interesting pressure gauge   Price: £30

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

This item can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.







            

























8.  Polished phosphor bronze jackstaff base  Price: £20

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

This item can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.

9. Brand new paired pressure (0-400psi) and vacuum gauges in original packing.  Price: £75

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

These items can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.



10. New (old stock) phosphor bronze water gauge fittings (Chanter Biomed type)  Price: £90

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

These items can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.


11.  Gunmetal hand pump 1"bore  Price: £75


Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com



13 Lifu type phosphor bronze pump body casting – largely machined   Price £70

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com

These items can be posted or collected but if you’d like it mailed please add £10 for p&p. If you’re buying more than one item from Hugh please drop him an email to check re postage.


14. Cast iron bedplate from the Gordon Cheape designed compound but as it is symmetrical could be used for a twin high. Unmachined.

Any offers before it goes in the bin? Collection only.

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com



15. Laser cut 10mm steel entablature plate for a Gordon Cheape designed compound.

Free, collection only.

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com



16. 'Pro-vision' fibre optic inspection scope. This is a remarkable tool - a form of endoscope - with a flexible stem around 2' long that can peer into the most inaccessible places.  It comes in a lengthy carrying case. 


Price: £25   (P&P £10)

Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com



Want to build a classy canopy? A complete sent of stanchions and base castings to build a canopy for an 18' Frolic (for which these items were acquired) or indeed any smaller steam launch up to about 20'.  These are strong heavy brass stanchions and with them are three phosphor bronze castings from which the support bases can be machined. Each casting is designed to be cut in half to provide two stanchion bases.  

Price: £85 ono      (Please note that these items are NOT suitable for mailing as they are very heavy and unwieldy) Contact: Hugh Mothersole hrmsteam@btinternet.com


    FOR FREE


Vintage Model Engineer
Magazines

14th March 2023

Vintage Collection of Model Engineer Magazines from 1947 to 1953

Free to good home.

Arthur  Baldwin   Gosport,   Hampshire   

janart7 at yahoo dot co dot uk

    FOR SALE

Boiler Tester's Pressure Gauge

24th  February 2023

One of our boiler inspectors is retiring and is offering for sale a very nice specimen of one of the tools of his trade – a high quality duplex pressure gauge with split two-needle readout, complete with leather carrying case and a selection of union fittings.


Maker: Smith Bros and E Hyson Ltd. Nottingham.

Solid brass case.

9 cm dia dial face.

weight: 3.2Kilos.

Pressure range: 0-200 lb/in separate hands serve each side of the graduated face and operate simultaneously both fitted to a common inlet fitting. The instrument is therefore self checking.

It comes with eleven assorted brass unions.

Due to weight, collection is preferred, contact David Turner

Contact Email: turner_d_a at hotmail dot com
Tel. 01753 882083

Price: £80.00

FOR SALE

Lathe 4.5" X 18"

15 July 2022

Patrick Mulholland is helping to clear the workshop of a recently deceased friend.

There is a substantial lathe that was in regular use for the last fifteen years or so for model making.

LATHE     -   SMART & BROWN model A  Mark 2  toolroom lathe 4.5” centre height by 18“  between centres

An assortment of 3 and 4 jaw chucks (Two Pratt Burnerd in nearly new condition)  About 30 collets, 9” faceplate, Dickson QC toolpost  and 5 QC toolholders, fixed steady plus  various  small tools and oddments.

This machine is three phase and is powered by an inverter which also gives variable speed control.

The equipment is located in Romsey, Hampshire.

Offers considered of about £900 for the lath and £200 for the inverter.

Please contact: Patrick Mulholland  01425 476837 or email to  Pat@pjmul.f9.co.uk  with any  queries or to arrange a viewing.


   FOR SALE

Welsh Steam Coal

7th June 2022


FOR SALE

Pearl & Zenith Foundry Patterns

1st May 2022

The Pearl Engine and the Zenith Engine foundry patterns are for sale. All are well proven for use by foundries or in a small shop.

The Pearl 2 ½ by 3 and the 2 ½ + 2 ½ by 3 engines as well as the Zenith 2 ½ by 5 engine are precise replicas of classic marine steam propulsion. These engines have been well accepted for decades.

The patterns are on match plates and ready for immediate use. The patterns can be removed from the match plates and just the patterns with their core boxes can be shipped very economically.

The patterns and core boxes have been professionally produced and work well. The supplied machining drawings can be easily re-produced.

More engine details can be found at: www.PearlEngine.com.

Images of all the patterns and core boxes can be viewed there as well as videos of the engines running.


Will consider an offer for all or part.


For more information please contact:
Roger Grosser

PearlEngine at gmail dot com

  FOR SALE

Machined beam engine castings (almost) free to the right home!

28th March 2022


Machined major components for an ME Beam Engine. They are available to anyone (a) who will pick them up from my home in mid-Sussex and (b) is happy to make a £20 donation to the Red Cross.

The ME Beam Engine was serialised some years ago in ‘Model Engineer’ and these parts come with a complete set of drawings, while the remaining castings are available from Reeves. Flywheel is 9" diameter and beam is 10" long.

Please note that I will not be posting these parts. They need to be picked up or maybe could be handed over at ‘Puffing a-Wey’ or the Thames Rally later in the year.

John Richardson 01825 731902

jwrathome at gmail dot com

  FOR SALE

Complete set of un-machined Stuart Turner ‘Cygnet’ castings

25th March 2022


This is the marinized version of the 5A and the set is complete, except for the reversing gear, in the original box from Stuarts.

The current price of a complete set of un-machinedcastings for building a 5A is £987 + VAT @ 20% but this set is on offer for £830 ONO- and the seller, in Belgium, advises that a solution can be found for forwarding the parcel in the UK.

Hubert de Houck hubert dot dehouck at skynet dot be

(Photo stolen from Stuart Turner's Website)

  FOR SALE

A 3x2x3 Worthington Simpson duplex steam pump

3rd February 2022

This really useful pump is in fully working order, restored by me.

See [https://sy-befur.co.uk/2017/11/11/worthington-simpson-pump-restoration/] for details.

Offers over£390

I can deliver to AGM or collection from Cumbria

Malcolm Duckett 01768372893 or malcolm dot duckett at btopenworld dot com


GOOD HOME WANTED

 BACK ISSUES OF FUNNEL

26 September 2021

Having been a member of the SBA for many years, I possess copies of the back issues of Funnel, journal of the SBA (and a good read to boot,) which I am now looking to re-home with a caring owner.

I have a copy of all issues from Number 31 to Number 190 (the latest issue), including the Classified Quick Reference Indexes covering Issues 31 to 175 inclusive.

I live in Swanage, Dorset, which would be a long way to travel for most prospective new owners to come and pick them up, especially in these uncertain times, therefore I would be prepared to send them at my expense to any UK mainland address. (Sorry, any interested party from overseas would have to pay postage or collect. Intrepid Steamboaters could consider a sea voyage to Swanage to collect in person).

If you are interested in this offer, please contact me, Patricia Platt, by email at patti.platt@btinternet.com

or by phone (landline) on 01929 424496.

(There is an answerphone facility to leave a message if I’m not in).

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