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Thank you for your kind comment, I'm glad you liked it! 🙏 😀

Nothing compares to Paddle steamers! Your wish may be on Ebay under "tin paddle wheel boat" 😄👍

Thank you! I came many years ago (1994) to see Ferry "Eureka"...but not a single model sailing on Spreckels Lake... Every video I make has a short description. You can see it's engine here: ua-cam.com/video/AdmrYsE3U6o/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!

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I'm glad you appreciated it! A full size one would be amazing! ...but unfortunately would by far NOT conform to today's regulations... The very last "boilers on the guards" steamboats went extinct 100 years ago! Thank you for your comment!

The work involved in building steam trains models is also quite impressive! Thank you for your compliment!🙏

I appreciate your comment, thank you! 👍🙏

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Not sure you can buy those anymore... I made this video, it has a written description with some info : Thomas Powell's "Preiser passengers" ua-cam.com/video/0pCfzC6Juw8/v-deo.html

@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG Thank you. I now realized that I have one box, unpainted of those vintage figures, original from Preiser. I hope someday those passengers get to be on board to one of my model boat!:)

You're exactly right! Thanks for watching!

Thank you! 🙏

Building a model of an amazing paddlesteamer makes everything all that much easier! Thank you for your compliment, I appreciate it!🙏

Thanks for watching!... ...and thank you for taking the time to comment, I'm glad you liked it!

J'ai tenté de faire de la coque "nue" un "petit bateau intéressant" et suis donc content que le résultat plaise à certains! Merci pour le commentaire bien apprécié! 🙏

Such large wheels are in fact not that difficult to make....but it does take time! Thank you for your kind comment!

Exactly !👍 And also "come sorella" "Patria"! 😍 "Morgan" type eccentric was so good, it was mounted on nearly every side wheeler after 1870! Thanks for watching!

Locomotives are cool too! 👍 But I'm glad you appreciated what I think is the best hobby ever ! Thank you! 🙏

I'm glad you appreciated it, Randy Thanks for the compliment !

Thank you for the compliment, John!

Glad you liked it! Realism is my biggest concern! Thank you!

...time passing by without me noticing...👍

Thank you! You definitely made a few "Top ones" too!👍

I'm glad you enjoyed watching, thank you! 🙏👍

@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG I worked on tugboats all my working life. I'm thinking of building a classic wood tug model with a steam engine.

That's a carrer! And you will have fun building a live steam model, guaranteed!

Thank you!

I'm sure they did, at some point, try out different reversing gear systems during the 100+ years these engines where running! The starting bar operation was simple and efficient: once throttled off, and hooks lifted up, the engineer could swiftly and precisely swing the bar up or down, opening or closing the valves. This reactivity reduced the dangerous risk of locking up on dead center with the boat moving towards the pier. I don't think it was that much work: just one or two counter revolutions of the paddle wheels were necessary at the landings. Steamboats designed to "sail" astern had two sets of eccentrics and hooks (e.g. Ferry Eureka - San Francisco). Thank you for your interest, and thanks for watching!

@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG Fair that to arrest the vessel as it slowly approaches the docks would likely only take a couple of cycles with the lever, but I imagine it'd be quite a bit more harrowing to need to perform an emergency stop from speed. Good point on the ability to avoid, or at least reduce the chance of, landing on a dead center with a single cylinder engine, though.

Glad you liked it! Thank you for your kind comment! 🙏👍

Those who built these amazing steamboat "flyers" 175 years ago were the geniuses! Thank you for the comment! 👍

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! 🙏

Weight is the main problem when building a functional side wheeler model made of metal! Since many centuries, almost anything could be done with metal! A 16th century pocket watch is a good example! "Unterwalden" was the first metal boat I started building in 1989!

That's a Hudson River steamboat song! (I love it!) It's name is "Francis Skiddy Polka", and was composed for the Captain of that boat, which appeared on the river in 1852! I'm currently "scratch building" a much earlier model, the steamboat "North America", as she first appeared on the Hudson River, back in 1839... nevertheless, I picked the song again for "part one"!

I'm honoured by your comment, Rex, Thank you! 🙏 And I raise my glass to you: the hand-carved paddle steamers you build are awesome!

Thank you !!

Yes, you're right. They have to be offset! Eccentric arms could also be located between the hull and wheel: an offset slew ring would then be used, the big wheel shaft going right through it. My "Setting a Glasgow feathering wheel" video shows a metal model wheel just like that, with the conventional Glasgow wheel next to it!

Ohhh 😮 I see it now! I didn't know about that solution. Thanks.

Merci beaucoup pour le compliment!🙏

A great hobby with many different things to do! Thank you for your kind comment, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 👍🙏

I'm glad you liked it! Thank you for your kind comment!

That's gonna be difficult! As you know, to reverse these giant engines, the engineer had to lift off the eccentric rod hooks from the rock shafts, and then manually open/close the valves accordingly for every single revolution! For this kind of engine to reverse reliably at such a small size in a RC model boat, I adapted different things (reviewed in video description), and a simple steam-reversing valve was one of them! No "hidden linkage"! Thank you for watching, and for your interesting steam videos!

@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG I must have missed what you mentioned in the description, let me give it another read!

I'm honoured by your comment, Thank you!🙏

Why would someone dump years of hard work like that

Yes. But most of the Victoria steamers were two funneled ships. Years ago, I was considering building a model of the "Ozone", but I finally took the "easy" way, and built my second live steam "Winkelried" instead!..👍

Thank you!