ukanduit
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Hello everyone. This is my first post.
Here are some pics of my first steam engine... well it's actually my second. The first one looks just like it, and was a gift to my brother.
It was the night before I was flying out to see him and his family and I don't know why or what for, but I decided to make a steam engine to pass the time. About the only thing I knew for sure about making steam engines was that the cylinder and piston fit would be critical -as you all are obviously well aware of -so then my first order of business was to locate a suitable reamer. Well it just so happened that a 0.1562" was the smallest chucking reamer I had on hand so the bore and stroke is 5/32". The rest of the design just kind of fell into place...
I call it the Stovetop Steamer.
On the first one I did run into trouble with the inlet port diameter. I was lucky enough to get the thing to run on air but being the terminal tinker'er that I am I tried opening the port up a little to get her to "breathe a little easier". Well I ended up bridging the inlet and outlet so I had to make a bushing so I could get back to the original port diameter...
It was loads of fun, I learned a bunch and I believe I will be making more engines.
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By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
Here are some pics of my first steam engine... well it's actually my second. The first one looks just like it, and was a gift to my brother.
It was the night before I was flying out to see him and his family and I don't know why or what for, but I decided to make a steam engine to pass the time. About the only thing I knew for sure about making steam engines was that the cylinder and piston fit would be critical -as you all are obviously well aware of -so then my first order of business was to locate a suitable reamer. Well it just so happened that a 0.1562" was the smallest chucking reamer I had on hand so the bore and stroke is 5/32". The rest of the design just kind of fell into place...
I call it the Stovetop Steamer.
On the first one I did run into trouble with the inlet port diameter. I was lucky enough to get the thing to run on air but being the terminal tinker'er that I am I tried opening the port up a little to get her to "breathe a little easier". Well I ended up bridging the inlet and outlet so I had to make a bushing so I could get back to the original port diameter...
It was loads of fun, I learned a bunch and I believe I will be making more engines.
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By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
By ukanduit, shot with COOLPIX P5000 at 2010-02-22
Yup, there's always a next!
