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    Silver soldering.......a newbe to boilers

    Actually when blue, it's poisonous from the copper.
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    Most efficient steam engine design?

    That is definitely true of the later Mamod TEs but not true on the early 60s TE. My experiment involved a non-adjustable TE frame mounted with a 1980s Mamod "locomotive" double acting oscillator cylinder. The double cylinder clearly had double the power but it also clearly consumed twice the...
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    Most efficient steam engine design?

    Rocket man, in regards to single acting and double acting, same dimensions, the double acting will double the power but also double the steam consumption. That is what I found with a Mamod TE oscillators.
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    Most efficient steam engine design?

    A follow up question: will a single acting oscillator expansion engine work?
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    Most efficient steam engine design?

    Interesting read. I am surprised no one mentioned a double tandem compound. Self starting with the benefits of compounding. Simple mechanically as well.
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    Breisch Olds 1/2 scale engine drawings

    Well... For the 1976 plans: "Before 1989, United States law required the use of a copyright notice, consisting of the copyright symbol ([emoji2398], the letter C inside a circle), the abbreviation "Copr.", or the word "Copyright", followed by the year of the first publication of the work and the...
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    Breisch Olds 1/2 scale engine drawings

    If you purchased a physical paper book, you can sell the book even after reading the book. If you have a set of physical paper plans, you can sell those paper plans after building said item. You cannot keep a copy. (*Update: unless there is a license restriction on the plan but that would have...
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    Project of the month

    As a lurker here... Requiring a build log for a project of the month nomination is too arduous of a qualification.
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    traction engine sweet sixteen

    Wow, so very well done!!
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