is she saying "and no it is is NOT going in the living room" ?
It is funny you mention that. She was actually the one that suggested putting it inside the apartment after cleaning as it looks so nice and would make a nice whatever... ^^
She would probably turn it into a bar table :-D
I live in the second floor with wooden ceiling. Except the fact that it is impossible to move it there it would probably end up on my neighbours dining table with a big boom and continue its way down ending up in my workshop in the basement...
It was probably easier to put it there without that expensive detour ;-)
Anyway, I quite underestimated the cost of building a proper boiler that will get approved by the "TÃœV".
That would probably cost me something like 20.000 $ which is way out of my budget.
So in the end I will probably do some maintenance on the machine, replace some lost parts, polish it and then get it running.
By the end of this year, my friends boiler for his steam boat will be finished. It is constructed to fit a 15 Hp engine but I guess it will be ok to get my machine started for some tests and to see it runnning once :-)
I would really like to have it working for whatever purpose but if the price is ok, I will probably sell it again and look for something quite smaller to play with...
Max
