Stuart 10v

[jarguello]

Hello,
I am new to steam engines, and this forum. I have always wanted a/some steam engines but never got around to it. Now that I am older I have been getting around to doing some of the things I always just thought about. Anyway, I was walking thru an indoor flea market and low and behold there was an engine on a table that was marked "everything on this table $1!" Well I thought that was too good to be true but took the engine up to the counter. "Oh no! said the clerk, that just came in and someone must have put it on that table by mistake, I don't even know what it is. I have to find out what it's worth, you can call back in a day or 2." Well I did just that and the clerk said they wanted $200 for it. So I thought about it for a while and went back to look at it again too make sure it was all there. Didn't take long and I bought it. It is a Stuart 10v. What I don't know and maybe someone can clue me in is Stuart ever painted their engines anything other than green? This one is brown! Well I know someone knows the answer to this question. Engine has now been gently cleaned and oiled, and run on compressed air. It is so cool! I wish I had never seen it! That's all I need is another hobby/obession!
TIA,
Joe

[Andrew Mackey]

Stuart sells the 10-V as a casting kit, a machinists kit (some minor clean up and painting, assemble yourself), and as a completed engine. All the completed 10 series I have seen are green.
Andrew

[OTTO-Sawyer]

I have one of the horizontal "mill engines", I'm drawing a blank on the model number at the moment, but it is painted black, as most of them I've seen are. This is one my Grandfather built back in the early 1970s along with a 2 cylinder vertical which my Cousin has which was also painted black.

Most of the smaller verticals I've seen are all painted green, but I have seen a few in Red. I don't know if Stuart changed colors over the years, or if different sizes were different colors. Then too, not everyone that built them stayed with the original color either and painted them to suit themselves.

If you picked up a completed running model for $200.00, you did very good no matter what the color ! If you would have gotten it for the $1.00 I'd be offering you the chance to double your money on it

[Andrew Mackey]

The Stuart mill engine is called that, it has no model #! The 10 series is made in both the vertical and horizontal versions, as well as twins. I believe that stuart makes their bigger engines in a twin mode as well.
Andrew