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    A good start for a rookie

    i'm between walker and bemidji. i don't have any drawings to post. but if you look at the plans for the" stand by" you could see how it works. the intake line goes between the fly wheel and the frame, the valve is a flat spot on the drive shaft. there is a port from the main bearing to the...
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    My first steam engine

    are there available plans for this? i think i would like to try something like that for my "engine #4" pretty darn neet, the noise is more than half of the neetness. mike
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    A good start for a rookie

    here's a better look at the second one http://s930.photobucket.com/albums/ad145/mjlauderbaugh/model%20steam%20engines/?action=view&current=101_0143.flv
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    A good start for a rookie

    hello there, evryone, i've been browsing this awsome forum since last spring and have learned alot just from lookin at the pictures. i'm still in the rookie catagory, but i have made a few usable items on my smithy. in the last couple months i have made two engines, and started a third. my first...
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    A question about scale, and model sise.

    thanx, Vernon, for that link. I book marked it and I dare say I'll spend more time there in the future. I think it's been said before by others, be carefull what you ask here,... you will get the answer. mike
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    A question about scale, and model sise.

    The model that I saw, and would like to duplicate, was at a customers' neibors house. there wasn't any one home so I didn't feel right snooping around to get a better look. but from the distace it looked like about 10" or 12" between the tracks. the customer said that this guy would give his...
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    A question about scale, and model sise.

    I've been lookin at different plans, and kits for my main goal project. (which is a locomotive) and i haven't been able to figure out the scale vs size thing. 3/4" scale or 2 1/2" scale. As a kid I did car models, and they were 1/8th scale or 1/10th etc. thanx in advance for any...
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    Starting from scratch

    Hello, there, to evryone. I'm another new guy to this group, in more ways than one. The last time I had any expirience with metal machining was in high school.(20+ years ago) I am an electrician by trade but like to tinker with just about evrything. I just got a smithy 3-1 to help with my...
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