Recent content by crueby

Great plans John!

The Train Department here in the US carries a lot of the European manufacturers (Regner, Roundhouse, etc), they have jets listed. I would suggest contacting the owner there, Jason, and ask specifically about the part you need. https://www.thetraindepartment.com/regner/gas-burners/

I use a small shop vac, with a Dust Deputy cyclone seperator (made by Onieda Air Systems). It goes between the vac and the main pickup hose, drops everything into a 5 gallon bucket, almost nothing makes it to the vac itself. Uses the larger 2" hoses, the smaller 1-1/4" hoses would clog with...

The headstock on the Sherline lathe also can be rotated 90 degrees so the flywheel would hang off the back of the bed - I used that to turn a large flywheel a couple of times.

Tracks look great!

Nice idea - have to remember that one.

Thanks for putting in the link Kvom - was not sure if it was accepted to link to other sites or not. Ed, any questions I can help with please let me know. I have LOTS of photos of the original machine up in Maine, plus more of my build. I'd be interested to see the jig changes, there are always...

Hi Ed, Thats my model/article in Live Steam magazine, great to see someone working on a Lombard model from it! They are incredible machines, only a handful are still around. I was just up at the logging museum in Maine a few weeks ago when they ran their real one for the weekend, and was...

When annealing brass/copper, its the heat that matters, all the quenching does is let you get back to work faster. It does not matter when annealing brass/copper if you quench or just let it air cool.

I do a lot of steam engines, have some sheets of automotive fiber gasket material that works great. It comes in several thicknesses, cuts easy. The normal cardboard and paper stock from envelopes and such tend to be too porous, and you will get leaks running through the paper out to the edge...

Check this page - it tells which parts of the linkage need to be same length, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_motion

How about all the projects that were completed in the year they posted no new potms, before ythis last few months they finally did some?

What was the solution?

VERY nice! th_wav

Sounds a lot like a hit and miss ic engine setup, pushing on a steam valve rather than tripping the ignition. Can you post a link to the video to give us a look too?