Paint Job -Stuart Victoria

The painted components kept safe in a wooden box.   Really important now to protect the components from damage.  I’ll leave them alone for the paint to harden off properly for a week or so.   This will ensure best resilience as the engine is assembled.  The sole plate failed the quality test  (added a grey thumb print to the front side which wouldn’t polish out…) so it’s now drying off. Hopefully, final coat of black gloss.

As a reminder the journey started here,  back in December 2008…

The we moved into governor territory –

The odd thing is,  having finished the governor assembly,  I still have most of the parts left over!

Now planning to  have the whole thing ready to steam before the end of October,  this would leave plenty of time to do plumbing and sort steam generation in time for the christmas holidays.