Recent content by ss2fly

No I haven't yet sorry, been busy fitting the Motard wheels to the KTM, sorting the workshop, organising the space for my South Bend lathe I just aquiried....... finding room for a mill that is in the pipeline etc.... so the boiler has gone on the "back burner" so to speak.... I am still...

Well done on the burner!!! NICE WORK..... If the Pumice idea takes off, let me know, I have bags full of the stuff here.....all shapes and sizes... (stuff the IWI....) Andy.

Ha ha.... Vintage Iron indeed!!! Predates me by around 60 years!! Still, I found it buried in a landslide when our old rented house fell off a hill in a rainstorm a few years ago, the owner didnt want or need it so, quick as a flash in the back of the work van it went. The rest is history !!! I...

Thanks, this place is SUPER addictive.......!!!!!! So many cool projects and tallented builders..... Andy

Couldn't resist it........ pulled it all apart and the piston has two rings on it so that answers that question. The crank is stuffed, all the joints are flogged out, not to mention the shafts are undersize in relation to the flywheel and eccentric thing on the other side..... I am going to...

Think it needs a bit more than that...... The crank is loose as are all the fittings etc.... Needs a LOT of work. I have downloaded the 5 pages of plans from here for the 3" vertical boiler, will this be big enough to run the engine without running out of steam or will i need to scale it up...

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Hello all from New Zealand. I am new to this hobby, but have a fair bit of machining and fabrication experience building all sorts of things over the years, mostly R/C related. Anyway, I have an old vertical double cylinder steam engine that my Father got me from somewhere when i was a...