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Its been a while since Inky Engines posted a new build. After building a third of Elmer Verburg's 48 engines over 2 years I made the decision to try my hand at the 1" scale 'Minnie' traction engine as described by L C Mason. Progress has been slow for a number of reasons, not least the...

Just finished this one - the 15th of Elmer's Engines to be completed here at Inky Engines - this one took a little longer than most of the previous builds. I gave up early any hopes of emulating Stan Shire's build in the glamour and innovation stakes! This one therefore I consider to be an...

Elmer's Radial Engine #11 - not to be confused with 'similar' 9 cylinder engines! It is after much deliberation that I post this finished project of a simple 3 cylinder Elmer’s Radial Engine, absolutely overshadowed of course by the amazing radial engines we have seen built recently...

I've just completed this example of one of Elmer's less common engine builds, and I realised that it's the first engine that I've built that does anything more than turn the flywheel! The build is straightforward, and the performance perfect for providing feed water to the steam plant's 3"...

The video shows my recently completed steam plant based on Elmer’s VR75 in action. The boiler is substantially to Sandy Campbell’s design, available as a HMEM Download, I’ve just modified the base slightly. The plant includes exhaust steam oil separation, and has manually pumped and pre-heated...

The latest from Inky Engines, not perhaps one of Elmer's more popular builds, but interesting nonetheless. I surprised myself to find that (mostly) the engine will change direction simply by operation of the eccentric change mechanism, and without the customary restart flick. The engine is...

Just completed this one, being the eleventh of Elmer's Engines built by Inky Engines. This is a nice engine to build, and not particularly difficult if care is taken in alignment of the gears - its also interesting to watch running, particularly at slow speed. The downside as previously noted...

No explanation required, no excuse offered! Please turn up the volume when watching the video clip. http://youtu.be/9glshrlW4yg Kind regards Geoff at Inky Engines

After a partial rebuild during the last week I'm now happy with the way this engine runs. To me this was always an engine that should run fast. As originally built, it ran, but lost lots of air through the front bearing - I tried fitting carefully sized bronze bearing bushes, but to no avail...

I've just finished the Inky Engines versions of Elmer's Mill #33 and Factory #41 Engines, and uploaded a You Tube video. I'm not the first to decide to build these engines together given the many identical or similar parts, but I couldn't resist then connecting them together and running as a...

I've just completed this my first steam boiler, and associated wobbler engine as a distraction between builds of Elmer's Grasshopper, and the combination of Elmer's Mill and Factory Engines. The boiler is based loosely on a design by Stan Bray in his book 'Making Simple Model Steam Engines'...

As promised, I've put together a video of the latest Elmer Verburg engine from the Inky Engines stable. It joins the wobblers and beam engine, videos of which were attached to my recent Newbie posting. Please excuse my attempt to show pressure on the gauges ..... an expensive computer...

Having regularly surfed this site as a guest for several months, and made use of the excellent resource it provides, I feel it’s about time to join the club and introduce myself. I’m a Mechanical Engineer and Health and Safety Inspector recently in retirement with a lathe, milling machine and...