An obsession with detail?

Original features often vanish during repair or restoration; photos of sister cars show a small beveled washer between the boiler pressure gauge elbow and firewall

The boiler pressure gauge is the right hand one in this photo of restored sister car #7712 in the USA. This car also has its electric gauge lamp, long since vanished from  ours, and the indirect reading water gauge between the fuel and boiler pressure gauges. 

This  pre-restoration photo showed that the washer and gauge glass fitting had vanished from our car

When the car was dismantled, a ring of discoloured paintwork was found where the washer fitted. Spares and accessories for Stanleys are relatively easy to come by; Vintage Steam Products in the US supply a wide range of Stanley spares and accessories, including a stainless steel reproduction of the missing washer, and with the pressure gauge off  to avoid it freezing in the winter, it was a good time to order a  replacement.


 During restoration we also sourced an original Stanley water gauge fitting from T Clarence Marshall of the Marshall Steam Museum, whose father was a Stanley dealer.