It is heartening to see somebody behaving with decency and integrity on this matter - one can only hope the original vendor blows himself up in the near future and does us all a favour.
An interesting postscript to the story is, as often happens when these sorts of things are publicised, other stories crawl out of the woodwork. Another fellow was taken for a ride in similar fashion - engine described as the best thing outside the British Museum, it arrived with a "home brewed" boiler certificate and, surprise, surprise, the thing leaked like a sieve.
Funnily enough the two sellers involved with these two engines live in adjacent roads in the same town; one signed his own "boiler certificate", the second used a third party who lived in the next road along (and shares a surname with one of the sellers). Now there's a coincidence...
