On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:48:11 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:13:46 -0000, Martin Brown
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On 23/02/2015 15:39, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:00:01 -0000, Martin Brown
wrote:


You wouldn't get it past H&S today but that doesn't mean it is the
worlds most dangerous toy. I expect some of the early dodgy small steam
engines have killed and maimed far more youngsters that anything else.

How did steam engines kill?

Boiler explosion with an inadequate, jammed or no safety relief valve.
When even a small steam boiler explodes you really know about it!

A couple of examples from the Mamod mailing list:

http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/ar...__t_58382.html

"While he was endeavouring to get a higher pressure on the engine, an old
oil can that served as the boiler" sounds like he wasn't following the
instructions and using the supplied materials.

"He had constructed a model engine, which had only been finished that night"
sounds much more like he made it from scratch using an oil can and that went
bang because he had no safety valve at all.

Ah, I saw this out of the corner of my eye: "The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index" and thought it was a proper Mamod model, which I can't see going wrong like that.

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