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Hi Paul May I ask where you sourced the skew gears, or if you machined them could you touch on that briefly. Im curious as to how I would cut these. Thanks John

I remember him working on his balcony, often wondered how he did it. He used to work for Ingersol Rand I believe. We shared a couple stories working those XLE 150'S. He even invited down fishing should I find myself in Singapore since we both like fishing. Good dude, I hope he's well also.

Hi Mark I used the fibre enforced packing tape on my belt sander. It was one inch wide with some kind of thread running thru it. Maybe a dab of gorilla glue would help also. I had two bottles of that stuff set up on me in the bottle so I haven't bought any since. Good Luck

I too had started this engine in 2008 and let it sit in my shop for maybe seven years or so while I built many other models. I finally picked it up again last summer after visiting the Finger Lakes Live Steamers and Steam Town in scranton, Pa. I took advantage of the stay at home orders and got...

I found no emissions in drawings but I did make a couple changes I felt comfortable with. I moved the bushing out to the outer support plate and went with .5 module gears , the closest match I could find since I don’t like cutting my own gears or hardware. I recall them being an odd size...

It’s a star wheel activated design, two pins in the upper ring have notches and detects to allow their activation by rotating them so the star wheels either hit the shaft diameter or if no facing movement is desired the notches are turned down so the star wheel passes thru with no contact. Not...

Hi Folks This is a Boring head I recently completed. It's designed by Grahm Meeks from across the pond. He did a nice job of creating and machining it. I had to try it myself when I came across it while researching another project. I did change a few things around a bit, as I never could color...

Check out "Draftsight" its a free download product from Solidwoks. I run it on both my pc and MacBook Pro. A tutorial is also available on their site. Very Similar to AutoCad Lt, so much so they were forced to offer it free as part of law suit settlement. : )

I am very interested in the effort you put into the boiler water level circuit and would like to build it. However I have very little experience in electronics so I have been doing my homework on google and talking to some folks I work with. I have a couple of questions if you could help me...

I used 1" Dia. rings purchased from a vendor at the Cabin Fever Expo. I forget the name but they sold ignition parts like rings, plugs, wires and caps. I made a set of rings for another engine I'm working on from info off the internet. You may want to check the piston to see what dimensions were...

Found pull cord rewind from my old echo leaf blower. Spring size is .157 wide x .015 the. Perfect. Back on track there, but I did a nice job of machining the 10 degree hole in the wrong shaft so I'll fix that tomorrow. - Johnny O

Thanks CS. No vacuum around but you got me thinking about an old leaf blower pull starter out in the garage. I'll dig that up and try using it. Thanks

I'm in the midst of building the Hoglet engine and am looking for a source of spring material for my kick start spring. Not looking forward to cutting down a six inch wide panel and trying to bend it to shape. If anyone has any advice to give before I take this on l'd appreciate it. Thanks...

When I used to work on my old boat more then fishing out of it I had the bilge pump quit on me again. I pulled up the panel and noticed the housing had seperated. Inside was a small 1" dia. Impeller with four offset straight blades. I remember thinking "thats it" this thing throws a full tube of...

Hi John I think I'm seeing an intersection of you're intake port and a head stud hole. If correct I had a similar situation on my Holt and found it didn't matter in performance as nut at top and flat sealing surface on bottom blocked it off.These heads did require careful drilling as I noted...

Found these showing valve linkage and assembly on shaft eccentric. The cylinders have an o-ring seated in a groove at top and a lagging cover not shown covers them up. I might try insulating the cylinders inside lagging and some more on the supply manifold.

Found my pictures so I'll put em up now. These are the parts I have so far. The pistons in photo have two o-rings but I made new ones with a single teflon piston ring with a silicone o-ring expander underneath. Bearings are sealed type with an open crankcase at bottom to expel any water that...

Well it's been a while and I finally caught up to my DraftSight work on this engine. Made a bunch of changes along the way. I'll put up pics of its progress. This is were Itstands now nearly finished. I need to fabricate the valve linkage next.

Bob I'm about to start my rods and redrew them to accept small roller bearings, a little tight to the clearance with the brass flywheel lip and bottom of slot in rod. I think I ended up with a 3/8x5/8x5/32 sealed bearing. RC bearings from fast eddy website. Made rod ends .157 thick with .188...

Jack I forgot to mention the style gear oil pump you designed. How is it fabricated with all the radius profiles. It looks good on paper but for the average tooled laymen I couldn't pull it off easily in my garage. Off the shelf gears machined as needed would be easier and never seen either...