Antique rusty toy - Steam Engine - JC Unis 1950 - Full restoration
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2021
- Here is a new video !! I tried to restore an antique rusty toy. It's a steam engine produced by Jean Comby "JC Unis France" around 1950. It's pretty rusty and It didn't work when I tested it. I found the water tank was full of some white substance which probably had blocked the airways of the engine. That was limestone, demineralized water must be used to run this steam engine ! But can I get it running ? Stick around to find out ;)
You'll see at the end that there are some air leaks here and there... I'll probably make a second video to restore the additional parts, I'll also fix the air leaks.
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The reason the piston wasn't easily moving the wheel is because the wheel had no counter weight.
@@PhineasTurner nope , it's more likely a blocked steam line from old solder , but definitely a distinct lack of OIL !
amazing restoration. Happy birthday. Very good.
I brought one into class, 3rd grade and gave a demonstration of steam power. Cotton balls, alcohol and matches. My teacher thanked me and the class was impressed. Can't imagine that now. What year? A long time ago.
Thanks a lot for your comment Michael. 🙏 You’re right, even if you call 3 firetrucks and two ambulances you couldn’t do that nowadays.
our teacher brought one of his shot guns into school to demonstrate to us kids . a short while after he pulled the trigger and took his head off in a local park .... good it tightened up in many ways ... but frightening that kids are being de skilled in so many basic life skills thier lives depend on electrical gadgets and i bet over 90% don't understand - and +
@@pimpmydiecastsdiecastandto3176 don't want to sound dump, but what exactly you mean by "- or +"?
I brought mine to a 5th grade class last year, huge hit. 🚂
Can't imagine the pearl clutching and bed wetting it would bring nowadays. Just think, we played with these. rode our bikes without helmets, and rode around in the backs of pickup trucks... oh, the horror of it all, yet we made it.
So, a kid got burnt. That is how life happens. It taught a lesson.. That's how one learns. It's called experience.
EXACTLY my thought!
They exploded if you did not keep them full with water and let the fire keep going.
And this is why we (Boomers, GenX GenZ) are made of strange stuff.
My father long ago owned a hobby shop. In the late 60's someone brought in a steam engine like the in you video. I still remember the smell caorsine hot metal steam.
Father place a rubber band on the fly wheel and a electrol set farris wheel he built. We had fun watching it. Thanks for the memory.
Being burned or injured playing with a toy is what qualifies it as educational.
Haha definitely 😌👍
Kids were not burnt by these toys. Only their fathers, pretending this Christmas gift was for their sons.
Same as with drones today :)
Great job!
Thank you very much !!! And yes... you’re definitely right ! 😃🙌
I am 19, so I never experienced these types of toys. I like how some toys (like the tanks that blow out real fire) really tried to imitate how they would be in real life. I wish I had some of these to be honest.
wilesco makes stuff like this I can say personally the D9 is fun ,miniature steam engine now generally fall under the hobby of model engineering if you are interested in researching them
It is not that difficult to purchase one of these machine’s cos there’s a lot for sale on eBay or marketplaces. Second hand or even new ones as well. 👍
You have no idea some of the toys a kid could purchase when I was a child. Things that a modern parent would totally freak out about today. Choking on small parts is all they have to protest today. A daisy bb gun used to be a full page ad in the toy section of the Sears Robuck Christmas catalog. Along with steM engines , .initial Canon, creepy crawlers (rubber heated to semi hardness in a hot mold , and not to leave out little girls Easy Bake ovens , wood burner kids and chemistry sets. Etc....real fun toys😁
Un véritable bon en arrière et des tonnes de souvenirs qui remontent avec votre restoration magnifique. En 1988 un monsieur très âgé m’a offert cette petite machine à vapeur, je passais mes mercredi après-midi chez lui à bricoler avec ce passionné de moteurs et d’horlogerie dans son atelier qui sentait bon les parfums d’huiles et de graisses. Je viens de ressortir d’un tiroir ce petit jouet et il fonctionne toujours ! Je vais lui donner un petit coup de neuf. Grâce à vous. En souvenir de ce vieux papi disparu en 1991 qui était la gentillesse même. Merci beaucoup.
Rémy merci pour ce commentaire. C’est vraiment touchant et gratifiant d’entendre ce genre d’histoires ! Clairement la meilleure partie de ce job 😃👍🏻
I had a similar one in early 1970s. Mine used Esbit fuel tablets, which were hard to come by, but seemed to produce steam more quickly, compared to the video. Also had a sight-glass to verify water level, a slightly larger cylinder, and a handle to control the whistle. I think it also had a throttle.
Once the whole mechanism got hot, you could pull the flame, dump the steam (through the whistle), replenish the water in the boiler, and it would start right back up by returning the fire-- often without having to give it a nudge.
The smell of oil and steam in our garage was frequent. It was simply satisfying to do the little ritual to set it in motion.
Do not recall ever burning myself on it.
Nice to see one return to life. Thanks.
Thank you ! 🙌
The thing I like most about your restoration project is that you always show us the end product doing its intended job! Itn not only good looking, it's functional
Many thanks !! It’s a pleasure to share it with you 😌🙌
At first glance, I thought it was a Mamod stationary engine. Good restoration.
Thanks a lot 🙏
At first, I thought it was a SEL model. This is hte first one I have seen with the boiler soldered to the base.
Greeting from the Czech republic . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
5:28 Kids of that age werent like the ones today
Great job tho
... so true... Thanks a lot !! 🙏
Dangerous and beautiful toys but I’m sure it created BIG THINKERS and CREATORS of our times😎
When I was a kid, I had one of those steam engines, not as old as that one, but I could fire it up, and just look at it for hours. What did it do? absolutely nothing, it just stood there and puffed, but for a young boy it was a marvel.
Glad it brings back good memories 👍
I'm 63 I remember my brother had one of these types of toy.
I was given one when I was young , in 1958. Still have it today. Same brand JC Unis....label still on it too.
Wow is it still working ?
@@TheFabrik
No, but it's missing very simple things. The plug for the water tank, and an alcohol burner. What I miss is the other toy that came with the steam machine. It was a working manufacture and all the tools could hook up to the engine. It came on a wooden board, roughly 40 cm by 25cm, and there was 6 or 7 different machines screwed on the base, with a system of pulleys to hook up to the steam engine. When you're seven years old....this shit is simply fascinating. And still is when you're 70...
Thank you for all these infos ! My kids are fascinated too by this machine ! When I see all these stupid toys they are playing with... quite dangerous tho... 💥 Thanks again
9:16....Awww, it was brilliant to see it finally get going.....almost like a living thing taking its first steps. Love to see you fix the issues on this beautiful little machine...I'd love to have one!
Hey Jeff thanks a lot for your comment !!! There are some leaks here and there.... It should have run faster... Thanks for watching tho 🙌
I take it this is the first steam engine you have had going. You have to close the whistle and let the boiler build up pressure. Then the flywheel will work as it should, providing the mating serfaces of the piston and plate are flat against each other. I used to restore the mamod steam engines and traction engines. I had great times rebuilding htem and firing them up for the first time.
Thanks a lot for all these infos !!! I’ll do better next time ! My welding was very weak :( 🙌👍🏻
That is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
5:14 you say " I wonder how many kids have been burnt by these toys " , I say ,
" I wonder how many kids ,young and old, have been taught by these toys that power bites,and have gone on to appreciate the world about them that bit better !"
Had one of these as a kid it also came with the table saw accessory which would really only cut paper and a really cool log polar saw that came with already precut logs but it looked like it cut the logs which was kind of cool. Also just a tip if you close the whistle you will get it to go much faster.
I'm so envious of your equipment to make the restorations successful, I work on N & TT gauge model locomotives ,but sadly my age,hands and eyes are not what they used to be. Another great job mate
Thank you very much Stephen !! 🙏
Gorgeous toy
Now we’ve made life so safe kids have lost the wonder of building, using their imaginations, or smaller ‘kid sized’ machines of yesteryear.
So true...😔
Well done. Looks like it might have been under water.
I dig the old steam powered toys, nice job
Getting burnt is how you learn how a steam engine works, and how to solder stuff also.
I'm glad to say I got burnt a few time while I was young.
No pain no gain
This is by far the best piece yet.
I was born in 1953 there those toys were all the rage I can't tell you how much I wanted one but my parents could not afford the price I still love them I love your channel seeing some of the toys I owned myself when I was young sometimes neighbors would sell their toys or give them to the parents of' kids who normally could not afford them as their kids had outgrown them. poverty was rife in my day
Hi Charles and thanks a lot for telling me this little part of your life !! I really like when people say hey I had this toy when I was a child ! 😃👍🏻
I was born in the same year and remembered toys like this. But my father was still in the Navy at the time, and with brothers and sisters being present, the Navy dollar stretched only so far at that time.
@@coleparker A lot of our toys came from jumble sales but my mum young brother and sister would go for a walk to a fly-tip looking for plants that had been split for our garden mum found a box of old dolls she recovered teddy bears made new clothes for the dolls my very young sister wrote in her school diary yesterday we went to the tip and I got some new dols and a teddy bear lol
Even today, I think the cheapest Jensen (US) is $150. They are pretty much handmade by Wilesco and Jensen. So amazing you can get one for as cheap as $150. Certainly not something a lot of families could afford.
If you turned that little valve on the whistle, would it increase the pressure and make the wheel go faster? Great job, love the toy and it’s attachments.
... what? The little valve is to operate the whistle to decrease steam and prevent overpressure!
@@Mr_Fancypants There is a separate part of the boiler that should prevent overpressure. Should be the nub you see at the front of the boiler. Usually it's a spring holding a seal in place till the pressure overcomes it.
With how rusted it was though, it might be for the best that it never built up any pressure. It wouldn't explode, but it might leak boiling water everywhere.
If you open a valve for anything you are letting steam out of the tank and reducing the pressure.
keep stronger n stay positive bro..
The most sadistic toy I had growing up was - The Easy Bake Oven... That thing really could cook - cake...
Great restoration, I am a collector and have a New of these, Marklin, Weeden, .. fome of them needs help. This video has provide Many tips, thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot Alberto. Well it should have been better... There are some leaks here and there... really poor welding... Thanks for watching and commenting !! 🙌👍🏻🙏
The engine is a oscillating cylinder engine. Cylinder has only one hole. The base has two holes. One for steam line and other for exhaust. At 90 degrees, the cylinder hole position at steam hole position, at 270 degrees it is at exhaust position. Not self starting by it's nature. Fun and fun and lots of fun. Thank you very much for the video.
Beautiful piece of history
nice rusty toy
Super beautiful, functional, and respectful restoration.
I still have mine and it's almost in mint shape....had it since new
My grandfather and uncle both had these from Maerklin. No one ever got burned. Well, that they admitted/remembered.
Marklin's thing now is model trains. Seems there were quite a few companies making toy steam engines. Fairly simple devices, but anything involving water under pressure is potentially a bomb, so you definitely want to trust the manufacturer.
I had my first steam engine (a Mamod) bought for me over 40 years ago and it's still going and fun to use.
Same here!
Mamod is still a thing, they have a website anyways. Wilesco never went out of business as far as I know, nor did Jensen. Those are the three I know about, of course there are other companies making model steam engines. Some are electric heated. This model reminded me of Jenson or Wilesco. No idea what the original colors were.
Well done, sir.
A weak ago I got a steam powered toy locomotive from my friend. I really looking forward to restore it.
amazing restoration. Happy birthday. Very good.
Quelle belle rénovation ! On est bluffé ! C'est un régal de voir ce petit engin reprendre vie. Bravo !
Merci beaucoup !! ☺️
An excellent and beautiful restoration. This engine is priceless!
My brother got this toy for Christmas in the 60's! Thanks for the memory!
Glad it brings back good memories. Christmas should be dangerous in the 60's !
Marvelous!, the same way Titanic moved it's giant body, I think steam engines were the greatest inventions ever...
Awesome job ! 👍👍
Thanks for that. I might fix mine up now.
Thank you !!! 🙌🙏 And be careful...😉✊🏻
What a happy little engine that could. What a beautiful restoration.
🙌 Thank you !!
thank goodness someone finally using the proper wrench instead of an adjustable wrench, they have expensive sand blasters etc but not a inexpensive wrench set.
🙌 oh well thanks !!! 😃
Love watching your restorations , just amazing workmanship. I find your videos very informative, relaxing
Wow! What a rust bucket. You did a fabulous restoration. I can only imagine how many kids got burned from this toy. Love the colors that you used. It looks and runs fantastic.
wow what a complicated restoration !
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Hi and thanks a lot for your comment !! 🙌
Nice job 👏
I'd love to have one of them toys. Good work.
yes, some kids may have burned their fingers but many others learned how to use their brains.
Thanks a lot !!! And yes you're definitely right...
They still sell them. But they are not cheap. Look for at least $150 dollars and up, depending on model and size. But they really are fun to play with at any age . I am presently refurbishing one myself...
Really wish I had the tools, time, and resources to fo restorations like this. It truly is so much fun to do.
For tools and resources, I recommend checking out your local Makerspaces! They can easily have tools it wouldn't be economical for you to get yourself.
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I still have mine, the wheel would turn faster if you capped the whistle, there should be a valve with a spring loaded valve to blow the whistle with bun really nice job on the restoration. mine is still in working order BTW.
Thanks a lot for watching ! I messed up the solder and I should have closed the whistle. Will do better next time ! ;)
Imagine if the former owner had known just how valuable this would become?! 💯
Точно такую взорвал Карлссон в гостях у Малыша. Это было легендарно!
GREAT JOB! AMAZING!
Sandblast the subscribe sign 🤣🤣
I can't remember if I had seen this previously. It's as enjoyable this time as well 🤓! I used to look at the Sears and Roebuck catalog every Christmas and this was always on the list.
Glad it brings back good memories !
Im pretty young, so I would have never been able to get one of these normally, but I just got a similar toy from a garage sale, and I hope I can use this as a somewhat guide to restoring mine to working order.
This has to be one of my favorite restoration videos you have done.
Thanks a lot louis. One of my very first vid
The whistle was left open while running. Close the whistle to build up steam. Always test the safety valve as well. It is recommended to gently clean the engine first since there may be patina to save. The boiler leaks in the front, so another air check is needed.
Thank you for your comment and also for all these infos ! 🙌
piękna robota, gdybyś uszczelnił i zakręcił gwizdek tak żeby para nie uciekała to maszyna kręciła by się szybko....
Pozdrawiam!! Robert.
tak masz rację przegapiłem lut...
This makes me want a desk toy steam engine that has a little generator that charges your phone. Totally impractical but very exciting
I’ll do one more steam engine soon... That would be amazing to ad a cable to charge phones !! 🤩 Thanks a lot for watching and commenting !! 😃👍🏻
...так вот, как работает паровая машина!, жаль, что нет паровозного гудка, молорик!, отличная работа, здоровья тебе и удачи!!!
Большое спасибо ! 🙌
The steam engine is very cute and you restored it wonderfully 👌👌👌
Thank you very much for your comment ! 🙏
Magnifico trabajo. Se da la circunstancia, de que tengo una máquina casi exacta, nueva completamente. Felicidades.
Muchas gracias !! 😌🙏
Why would anyone give this a thumbs down?? Let's see what they can do.. oh yeah, nothing. Great work!!
🙏 thank you !!! Part of the game... Honestly I don’t care 😆
Very nice work. A lot of patience to make that steam engine came up with a great experience for restoration of history. Love that colors and styles 🤟👍👍
🙏 Thanks a lot for your comment !! Glad you enjoyed 😌
Nice work, very fond of the bright work. As pointed out, closing the whistle will boost the steam pressure. That little booger would all but fly then.
Pretty engine, reminds me of my Wilesco D10.
Thank you very much !!! Yeah I know it should have work faster... 😌🙌
I bet quite a few kids were burned by it but not nearly as many as you would think. I mean now a days we have to put warning labels on Tide Pods so kids won’t eat them. We need toys like this again.
Beautiful.
I remember those old steam toys , great restoration 👍🏻
Thank you !! 🙏
As you know I’m a big fan of your restoration’s in common but this one was one in particular cos I brought back some very good memories to my youth. I have saved money for almost a year as a newspaper boy. When the moment arrived that I could finally purchased it. My mom warned me a couple of times coz actually I was literally playing with fire. My dad whispered in her ear that I was old enough and if in the unlikely event I would burn myself it would be for just one ☝️ time. There you have your answer you’ve asked yourself in the vid, “I wonder how many young....” well my little steam engine should be ignited with a paraffin block and later on with real cokes, not as shown in your vid with a spirit burner, It was not that I burned myself but get a injury from a connected sawmill 😂🤣 these nasty machines did really did their job very well. Now you can wonder yourself how old I am nowadays! You’ve enjoyed me once again with this beautiful restoration. Thanks yet again monsieur Le Fabrik.👍👍❤️
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks a lot for these words, I’m so glad to read these parts of lifes, really gives a sense to my job. So thanks again, I have another steam engine, I will retore it soon. 😌🙌
Turned out awesome 👍👍👍👍👍
🙌🙏 thanks !
Steam engine Restoration perfect
🙏thank you !!! 🙌
great precise work, wonderful result. a master at work. 👍🏻
Thanks again ! 😌🙏
Amazing work. I’m so jealous of your talent, knowledge and patience. 👏
Thank you so much 🙏🙌😀
Harika bir çalışma oldu, tebrikler dostum..
Brings back memories of my youth :) I had a Wilesco one (D6 if I remember correctly). We used Esbit blocks to power that one.
Ahh yes a mm1 I think very cool emgines
Интересный агрегат, похож на паровую машину. Очень интересно. Реставрировать такие вещи, думаю очень интересно, результат радует. Спасибо 🙏 вам огромное. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ага все осталось помятым, вода со всех щелей давит. Что он там паял? Короче просто отпрлировал и все, рукожоп.
That scrubbed up very well . Great to see some one else resurrect a worthy steam engine
🙏 thanks !!
Top work as usual!!! A real proffessional !!and to the last detail !!
Thanks again bro ;)
Muito bom 👏👏👏👏👏gostei 🇧🇷
Really enjoyed this one, thank you for sharing ♥️
Thank you ! 🙌
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hartelijk bedankt Yolanda
nice job
Impressionnant la transformation! Super taf!! 👌
🙏 Merci !!
Encore une magnifique restauration ! Je suis en vidéo avec un-merci et bravo
Merci beaucoup 👍
Wonder how many of these blew up back in the day
Haha a few probably 😁
Great find! I love unique things like this. Hard to believe that it’s a toy. Excellent restoration. Keep the great work!
Thank you very much !!! 😃👍🏻
A toute vapeur vers la célébrité et en plus elle tourne (la roue)!!! Bravo beau savoir-faire
J ai connu un homme qui serait plein de fierté devant ces réalisations
❤️ André ce commentaire me va droit au coeur tu t'en doutes.... 🙏 Merci
A very beautiful thing. Thank you for this very classy work. You are a fountain of creativity. I wish you more brilliance, my friend.