Just what I would give my kid for Xmas (not)

Seems to me it depends on how old your "kid" is LOL When I was very young my Dad's then boss.....owner of the local smalls town NAPA/ Johnson outboard dealer had a small lathe in the store, a little Atlas, and later a South Bend. He made model steam engines for a hobby........which irritated Dad because all this was in the way of the outboard repair work bench.......but he just ran them off compressed air

As a guy who used to do HVAC/R service, and worked on a few---damn few-- boilers, I'm well aware of the dangers. "Something like this" is certainly not under any underwriter's control