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A part-built 4 inch scale Foster agricultural engine to the popular Live Steam Models design - we've had lots of these in over the years, their popularity is well-deserved, it's a well-proportioned, powerful engine. There are lots of pictures of finished engines in the archive, this one gives you an idea of what they turn out like.

Work to date is to a good standard and comprises

• commercially built boiler supplied by Live Steam Models and complete with their paperwork detailing initial hydraulic test, complete with smokebox

• set of commercially machined gears, including differential

• machined crankshaft

• machined flywheel

• machined cylinder assembly complete with front & rear covers, piston, rod, crosshead and trunk guide

• rolled and welded wheel rims, complete with T-rings

• hornplates, complete with dummy rivets and main bearing housings with bronzes fitted

• set of front and rear spokes

• machined rear hubs and cover plates

• formed tender sides, bottom and spud pan

• machined front axle

• large quantity of unmachined castings to complete (including three cast iron eccentric straps not shown in the pictures below)

• drawings

Lots of hours in the workshop before you're ready to put a fire in the engine, but not a great deal extra to spend. As far as we can see there are castings to complete, much of the heavy and/or big work - crankshaft, cylinders, gears, flywheel, winch drum - is all done.