Here's the book, a good one to have for all sorts of stuff.
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/hasluck/index.html
Did a search of the site and couldn't find any mention of the book or the projects it covers. Has anyone else seen or tried to build one?
I was loaned a copy by a blacksmith friend in high school while I was doing and independent study with a retired machinist. Learned a lot from the book, and an awful lot from my mentor too.
In the book are some nice plans for making a 1/4 HP vertical steam engine (also a horizontal one and a boiler too among other stuff). If I recall it has about a 7" flywheel and about 1-1/2" bore, slide valve, and looks like an old marine engine with 4 columns. Somewhat optimistic I decided that would be a good project for me to learn machine shop stuff one piece at a time. Over two years I made a few pieces here and there as well as other projects, never really got much done though as it is a fair amount more complicated than I was ready for at the time. Now several years later and I haven't even looked at it.... I'm thinking about it again, and sometime before or even after I retire I expect I'll finish it to my satisfaction.
I'll try to dig out the book and post a picture/drawing of the engine.
Grigg
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/hasluck/index.html
Did a search of the site and couldn't find any mention of the book or the projects it covers. Has anyone else seen or tried to build one?
I was loaned a copy by a blacksmith friend in high school while I was doing and independent study with a retired machinist. Learned a lot from the book, and an awful lot from my mentor too.
In the book are some nice plans for making a 1/4 HP vertical steam engine (also a horizontal one and a boiler too among other stuff). If I recall it has about a 7" flywheel and about 1-1/2" bore, slide valve, and looks like an old marine engine with 4 columns. Somewhat optimistic I decided that would be a good project for me to learn machine shop stuff one piece at a time. Over two years I made a few pieces here and there as well as other projects, never really got much done though as it is a fair amount more complicated than I was ready for at the time. Now several years later and I haven't even looked at it.... I'm thinking about it again, and sometime before or even after I retire I expect I'll finish it to my satisfaction.
I'll try to dig out the book and post a picture/drawing of the engine.
Grigg