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For what it's worth,I have two of the afore mentioned diesels. At best , hardly more than kits. The Indians seem in my opinion to be worse than chinese at machining and fitting.Both engines full of casting sand, metal swarf,,,nothing fits quite right. It seems to me if they can get most of the...

I've just bought Harris's book, looked through it several time. One of these is in my future. Early in my working career, I did a stint loading with a 3 drum American that had been converted to gas engine. A bit of a beast, but dang, that thing would load logs

You could go over to lister engine forum,, they have a lot of info on balancing flywheels,, just use search. hope helps

Yeah, Ron I now There'll be a bit of supply challenge to this project, I;ve got some steam experience,,so not totaly new to the issues. I've been thinking about this for some time, then I saw some vid's on youtube by "Lynx Steam",,,and the light bulbs started going off.His rocket stove, with the...

Thanks guys for the replys. Hopefuly I can get the build started soon. This isn't exactly the engine I want to build,, but it's as close as I've been able to find. Want something a bit bigger, capable of doing real work. Charging batteries for off grid, grinding grain, pumping water. Havent...

Thinking about building a PM #6 , has anyone here ever built one??? Any thing I should watch out for??

Hi all from wonderful WV. Semi-retired here,spent working career in timber - wood products industry. Mostly interested in steam,though anything mechanical interests me.Want to build steam model fairly large , maybe 3 x 5 ish,so if anyone knows of plans that would be helpful.