AVB Posted March 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 8 minutes ago, ditchman said: amazing..................coronavirus is killing the world........stock market gone down the toilet...........no food in the supermarkets................... and the HOT THREAD on pigeonwatch is.....the merits of a mamod steam engine.............. excellent....... That and my post on my seat bolt. I think that makes me an ‘influencer’. Or as my wife would say “a boring old ****” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 7 minutes ago, AVB said: That and my post on my seat bolt. I think that makes me an ‘influencer’. Or as my wife would say “a boring old ****” A Social Media Influencer!.....be very careful as it is but a short step to taking selfies of you pouting! Next step is lip fillers and Botox , then Celebrity Pigeon Hide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 23 minutes ago, Diver One said: A Social Media Influencer!.....be very careful as it is but a short step to taking selfies of you pouting! Next step is lip fillers and Botox , then Celebrity Pigeon Hide AWESOME DUDE.........................please say you will be his manager.....great threads to come... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 Format a PW member is stuck in a hide with a Z list celeb shotgun baseball bat PW member has to decide whether to shoot the pigeons or beat the celeb with the bat...Needs a bit of refining but I am off to Manc airport now to pick up daughter, hubby and two granddaughters (1&4) so I'll have a think as I'm driving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted March 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 4 minutes ago, Diver One said: Format a PW member is stuck in a hide with a Z list celeb shotgun baseball bat PW member has to decide whether to shoot the pigeons or beat the celeb with the bat...Needs a bit of refining but I am off to Manc airport now to pick up daughter, hubby and two granddaughters (1&4) so I'll have a think as I'm driving It could be like that fishing programme that Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse did. No actual fishing done but lots of bloke chat. We could get two celebrities to sit in a hide and talk about bloke stuff. @ditchman could be arbiter to make sure the conversation was ‘blokey’ enough. It would be like my pigeon shooting. No pigeons seen and no shots fired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) you could add a bit of big brother into it ....like when that scottish MP pretended to lick milk out of that womans hand (rula lenska) and george whatsit... cepy it would be some pretty celeb drinking lukewarm coffee out of your hand......then she would go into the bramble room and tell all whilst you continued shooting ... god there is so much material there....we could be onto something Edited March 13, 2020 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 11 hours ago, AVB said: I had one of these as a child and recently picked up this on eBay. It’s an SE 1.a circa 1970. It was badly tarnished and pitted but I have stripped off the lacquer and buffed up the boiler which I think has come up quite well. I’ve also replaced the seals and plan to get it running over the next couple of days. The wife can’t understand the point of it! Anybody else got one? Always wanted one as a kid, but as money was tight, had to make do with the equivalent of a mobile phone, namely two cocoa tins and a length of string. OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 im just wondering if i still have mine........................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akey Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 So glad I clicked on this thread, I remember my dad having one when I was a kid. I keep thinking I should get another one ready for if I ever have grandkids (well thats the excuse I'm running with). Loved all the pictures and I feel a shopping trip coming on if I can hide the money away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 10 hours ago, AVB said: I remember as a child firing mine up in the kitchen. I had put newspaper down to protect the kitchen table. Unfortunately I had spilled some meths onto it and, of course, when I lit the burner the spillage and the paper went up. A bit of a panic and lots of explaining to my mum. I did exactly the same with a tea towel. A pit of a panic at 10 years of age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilR Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Yes I still have mine somewhere in the attic along with my Hornby Dublo train set, that's still in it's original box albeit rather battered now. The train set was bought for one of my birthdays in the late 50s/early 60s. During the same period I swapped a broken, WW2 revolver, given to me by my uncle, for the Mamod and a couple of yards of magnesium metal strip. The latter was interesting to a little boy as you could ignite it with a match and watch it burn fiercely with a bright white light. I really wanted some of the lump of phosphorus the other kid had too but I didn't have a container to take it home in, it had to be kept in water to prevent it self combusting in contact with air. I took a jam jar round the following day to get it but I found his dad had relieved him of it and left him with a sore backside for interfering with his work stuff. Happy days😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 lol great stories........... well adjusted children................................. know-a-days the kid would be put into care.....the mother goes for councilling and the father gets 5 years for assult..........how times have changed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow white Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 I had one back in early sixties with all the tools that have been showed on here brining back lots memories and tears in my eyesI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson_tom Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Our steam toys have got a bit bigger but me and the kids still enjoy firing up the mamods and wilescos over the winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratlegs Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Ive got one a Christmas present late 50s The roller I got it early 60s one day going to fire them uo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) Heck they were rich kids' toys back in the early 1970s when I was a school. Not that I might not have been a rich kid but, coming from a shooting family, we had a BSA Airsporter Mk1 and a BSA Meteor instead. As for model static steam engines if I wanted to see one working I could see a real one if I asked my father to take me down to tne family factory to spend a day with "Uncle Ken" in the steamhouse. Edited March 13, 2020 by enfieldspares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Heron Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Wow this brought back memories I had one of these and I would have loved to have had the traction engine but unfortunately my parents wages would not run to it. Does my wife understand who cares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 hours ago, ferguson_tom said: Our steam toys have got a bit bigger but me and the kids still enjoy firing up the mamods and wilescos over the winter Magic, does the generator run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bavarianbrit Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Selling this one on the bay at the moment, after 25 years in the workshop it is clear to me I have not got the time to fettle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 AVB get yourself a lathe and start making your own, keep you out of mischief. Have a look at the model steam fair videos online, some very talented people around. My mate had three or four stating engines from very small to a table top one that could power small machinery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8 90 Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 I have had these 4 for “some” years The traction engine was my first which I bought in 1972 for £12.50 from my sisters catalog. I still have the boxes for 3 of them, the car cost me £42 & has never been run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotgcoalman Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 21 hours ago, ditchman said: amazing..................coronavirus is killing the world........stock market gone down the toilet...........no food in the supermarkets................... and the HOT THREAD on pigeonwatch is.....the merits of a mamod steam engine.............. excellent....... That's until Gertrude Thumbscrew gets back in the limelight and gets them banned for causing climate change. Think Kays catalogue used to sell them back in the days when they also sold air guns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, gotgcoalman said: Think Kays catalogue used to sell them back in the days when they also sold air guns. They did, which is where my original Mamod came from. It was converted into cash when I graduated to an air rifle, and then the rifle and scalextric were converted into my first motorbike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 hours ago, bavarianbrit said: Selling this one on the bay at the moment, after 25 years in the workshop it is clear to me I have not got the time to fettle it. some of those parts look as if they come from an old singer sewing machine ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wb123 Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 There is a wonderful video on YouTube of a v8 made of mamod parts to power a rotating cake stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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