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Hello all: Here is a homemade steam engine, 1" bore and 1" stroke, double acting and a piston valve. In the second video it is running a Stuart Centrifugal pump I made several years ago. http://youtu.be/Pucfgrg1oy0 http://youtu.be/Dkm32StznCc I hope these show up. Thank you for...

Hello All: I tried to get my children to play in the shop when they were young (under supervision) so that they would know about tools. Tina has a tool kit that I gave her to do some of her home maintenance on her condo and Eric understands even more about tools and what fun you can have making...

To all you intelligent viewers out there: I found these in my Father in Law's tools and wonder just what they were used for on the farm? The jaw tips are more like a alligator clip than a vice-grip tip. My guess is something to do with repair welding of farm machinery. I mounted it in the vice...

I would like to thank all of you who were involved in the recent change over and the rapid way it was accomplished. I am now back to my normal breathing rate relaxed reading level. Kudos to you all! don

Hello all: I received a e-mail telling me that there are a few different model engine kits available from Oregon Gears site. Google in oregon gears and go to the (GEARS store) to see the ones available. These kits all seem to be in aluminum castings. The Oregon Gears show will be on September...

Brian: I did it a little differently. Over the years I have bought most all of the sizes of "nesting" brass tubing from hobby shops around the area. I just cut off a piece of the appropriate diameter and sharpen one end and put the other in the drill press and use a piece of wood for a backup...

Hello All: This is not a model engine but I did make a few new parts for the restoration. My FIL gave this engine to my Son a couple of years ago. Eric came home for Christmas break so I cleaned up what I could and repainted the shrouds and left the engine apart for him to reassemble and try to...

Hello All: Merry Christmas to all. I wish for all of you to have a happy and safe Christmas with your family. We have a wealth of snow here in Portland OR. USA. This is more than I have seen in the 35 years since I move here. It is a good thing our Son made it in between storms, our daughter...

Hello All: This is one of the first models I made as the catalog said it was a good beginners project. I had one of the first Taig lathes and had to go to a friends place to use his bigger lathe to bore the cylinder. The valve seems to need a bit of tweeking in positioning to get it to operate...

Hello All: This is a steam engine my Dad had when he was young, probably the late 1920's or early 1930's. It was a little beat up when I first saw it and in the late 1980's I fixed it up and repainted it and gave it back to him for a Christmas present. He had borrowed a few of my little steam...

Hello All: This site is making me get back into the shop and have fun again---thank you all! I built this engine in the late 1980's and took it home on vacation to have my Dad help me get it started as he was restoring full sized antique engines at the time. I never found the right springs to...

Hello All: I have a question about supplying the voltage to run my IC engines. As noted on my video of the 6 cycle engine in Photos and Video section, my 6 volt lantern battery was dead and I used my battery charger (on the 6 volt scale) to run the engine. It seemed to run well but will this...

Hello All: Home Shop Machinist magazine has had several model engine plans over the years and in the 90's I built Phil Duclos's Six Cycle Engine from the plans and articles published there. It has been 10 years or more since I ran this engine and my 6 volt batteries were dead so I used my...

Hello All: I just finished this little air engine this morning. It surprised me upon starting just as I hooked up the air line to it. I was prepared to adjust the valve timing and oil the linkages but it seemed to run very well. I printed the plans off the web...

Hello All:  I have shown a picture of this engine some time ago but now I have a short video to go with it. This engine was designed by Eric (our Son) for a college class  that was to teach Cad and actually build something that would run.  He did all of the machining at home...

Hello All: Here is a short video of a little engine I built about a year ago. I bought the castings at the Oregon Steamup 2006 in Brooks Oregon from some model engineers helping promote the GEARS model shows each year. There was a choice of aluminum or bronze materials kits, the bronze is more...

Hello All: Don't want to hijack another person's post so will open this one. I built the cover engine from Machinist's Workshop about a month ago. I took a few liberties with the plans to "Make it run more efficiently". Maybe it did but also maybe not. I made the block a bit longer and added a...

Hello All: This is a model that I built several years ago after beng introduced to the hobby by a fellow worker showing me a model made from a kit from Cole's Power Models. I made this with my 12" Craftsman/Atlas lathe, a drillpress and hand tools. It is a good runner and will idle down to quite...

Hello All: Still trying to learn how to do this, Daughter leaves tomorrow so trying to get in all the practice I can before she leaves. This is a modification of one of the E-Zee engines if I remember correctly. I used ball bearings on the crank shaft and changed the manifold slightly. It is a...

Hello All: I posted pictures of this engine several months back and now have been trying to learn how to do videos with the new camera. This engine was built without the use of a lathe, just a drillpress, tubing cutter and a file. Then the pieces were assembled and soldered. I believe the plans...