[SEL] model, or not to model?

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Leroy,
    I generally think of a "model" as a reproduced, scaled version of an 
original engine.  The scale could be 1/4, 1/2 or even full.  In my book, 
a model would be as accurate as possible including detail.  A salesman 
sample would probably fit my definition of a model.  However, a 
salesman's sample would be different in that it would have been 
constructed by the original engine manufacturer (the Callahan salesman 
sample that was discussed was actually made by the WP Callahan Co.).  I 
made a gent mad at a show last year.  He had one of the Emory Campbell 
built Springfields (a full scale reproduction of the 1 HP's).  I said 
"Oh, you have one of Emory's Springfield models".  His comment was "its 
not a model, its a real engine".  My comment then to him was, "you can 
call it an engine, but its not a real one".  He sulled up and didn't say 
anything else.  But, in my book, its a model.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



Leroy wrote:

> Gday
>    After a nice thread about models on Jim's list and after some 
> discussion on salesmen samples here I now have some questions. What 
> size makes a model? what features of a model are not on a "salesman" 
> sample? Can any of us tell the difference? Why are these not looked at 
> as bering a "MODEL"? after all they are just toys?  I have seen old 
> models that are rough enough that I could have maybe been convinced 
> that they where Salesmen samples. Any one else? Let me hear what you 
> think and why  you agree or disagree. And what about size? when is a 
> model no longer a model? I have an Ideal with 10 inch flywheels and it 
> is real, yet I build models with 10 inch flywheels and I have a 
> Flywheel off of a 1 1/2 "M" that is going onto a MODEL. Is this wrong 
> Curt seen the little Brunner air compressor that has been changed into 
> a model engin and if you did not know better you would think it to be 
> a salesman sample of an engin that did not cut the mustard?
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