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I saw this engine first on HMEM, there was a wonderful l post on the build of one ,and there are several beautiful, beyond perfect examples of this engine on HMEM and on the web. I run my "steam" engines on air at shows and at home . So my approach to this build was biased by my desire to...

I was gifted these castings and decided to tackle this project. It was a challenge due to the size. Very little fit in the mill vice and table clamps used a lot. The 13" flywheel was at the limit of my lathe a 10ee . the 7" cylinder was also a challenge because I have no steady rest for my...

I recently completed this engine. It is fairly true to scale and seemed weird at the time. For example, a 8" flywheel with 3-48 and 2-56 screws for the main bearings? Also wedges and cotters for bearing mounts. many hours on split bearings and all bolts and nuts are square. Nice gun metal...

Just a short poor quality video but I though I would share the water wheel. the water wheel gets a Lot of attention at show. Just a simple tip bucket type The buckets are made from Champagne cork metal retainers. The buckets are tipped when they run into the cork on the bottom. It is not...

Well I wrapped my wife's present and it needed some flare. So I added a special ribbon.

Well I just completed a Red Devil from Shelf Pet Models. It has low tension ignition . After trying different point metals , I settled on tungsten. Iron makes a big spark but erodes fast and guess where that iron spark slag goes. ?? I also tried various coils from a extremely low resistance...

I was given these mystery bronze castings yesterday. No plans . No info. Piston is .725 diameter? any info appreciated. Nice main casting. Marine engine ?? Thank you.

My friend Dwight Giles made this Poppin engine approx 30-40 years ago. He never managed to make it run, He has been cleaning shop lately and asked me to look at this engine. As always The machining was excellent . He used cast iron cylinder and Graphite Piston. It took me a while to figure out...

The title says most of it. Elmer's Engines has a Cross Twin Engine at chapter 34. So I call it an Elmer #34. I was fortunate enough almost 20 years ago to see an original design version running at my first visit to a BAEM show. BAEM= Bay Area Emgine Modelers. I joined the club shortly there...

Well here goes the long story. I built a Stuart BEAM engine in ~1989. I learned about the "Watt's" parallel motion. Studying this I found out about the Peaucelliar -Lipkin linkage that is "perfect" . I have always had it in the back of my mind...

Well here goes the long story. I built a Stuart BEAM engine in ~1989. I learned about the "Watt's" parallel motion. Studying this I found out about the Peaucelliar -Lipkin linkage that is "perfect" . I have always had it in the back of my mind...

Bay Area Engine Modelers show The BAEM club will have it's annual show this year at the Good Guys hot rod show August 22,23,24,25. It is located in Pleasanton Calife there. There is a LOT of space available so this is my invitation to all that would like to show their creations. We usually set...

An invitation to join us. Hello I am the President of Bay Area Engine Modelers. BAEM We have an annual engine show . It is held at the Good Guys Nationals Hot Rod show. They have for many years provided us a beautiful $ spacious building to show our works. Our club is mostly I.C. but...

Just finished The 1/4 scale Denny Hot Air pumping engine. No paint yet. YouTube, my first, is available here. https://youtu.be/YADgoHTfmuI Castings from Wade Eisner <[email protected]>