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At our steam show, our "model barn" is open from about 9:00 AM til 5:00 or 6:00 PM for 4 days. I usually show my stuff for 3 of those days, and engines are on display and running nearly all day, except for brief periods when oiling and/or cleaning them. Yes, a piece of plexiglas for a valve...

And a video of the Mill Engine running.

OK, here are a few pics and a video. The Overcrank engine shown above IS a Rudy K. engine. Don't know offhand where plans are available anymore. Try a google search, or it may be in a Rudy Kouhoupt book, if you can find one. Here's a video of the Opposed piston engine running on about 10 psi...

The cylinder cladding is a pc of a soda can I laid out flat and cut to a bit oversize, cut the “flaps” on the ends, then rolled it over a 1/2” rod inside out, so the can graphics are inside. The outside is painted with Testors flat red model paint. If I get a chance, I’ll look thru my plans for...

The vertical engine is (if I remember right) a Rudy Kouhoupt design, with some refining and such added by me. And yes, the con rod does stay perfectly vertical and in line with the cylinder. Most of my engines are from plans like those from Elmer Verberg. I’ve built 2 or 3 that were my own...

Here's video of another engine I built probably 12 yrs ago. All from bar stock, except for the flywheel, which is a cast "replica" of a Kodak coating wheel. And a photo of some of the engines I've built over the last 45 yrs or so. Only one of my hobbies that "keep me out of trouble".

Here are my two latest engine builds. The 2 cylinder is one I designed way back when taking Solid Works 3D CAD class for work, the single cyl. is my version of Elmer Verberg's # 34 Mill engine. All parts are from raw stock, other than the PM Research flywheel casting on the single cyl. engine...