Hi!
I just finished restoring a Puffin engine I bought a few weeks ago on ebay.
I thought you might be interested in a few pics. It was easy to remove the old paint with my Dremel after indicating all of the parts to put them together in the same order later.
Before I painted the parts, I washed them thouroughly with brush cleaner and only touched them with rubber gloves afterwards. I have chosen Humbrol Royal blue as colour and brus-painted three layers of colour.
When reassembling, I realised that one of the piston rods has been bended, so I has to order a new one. They where very helpful at Stuart Models and provided one free of charge. A Clevedon Steam I ordered new springs and piston rings as the old ones where a bit worn out.
With all the new parts, reassembling was quite straightforward. I made some Cylinderhead-gaskets out ob baked paper, a method I also used with my Anton Quartz. I am quite happy with the result. The engine runs well on compressed air but I didn't check under steam Still have to decide what boiler I will buy (Stuart, Maccsteam or Cheddarvalley?) It was mentioned in this thread that the latter would produce the old Cheddar boiler? I this with ceramic burner?
So here are the pics:
Kaspar