Project for the month of January 2014

[Admin]

Congratulations to Crueby for his

Mini double-acting beam engine

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/f43/mini-double-acting-beam-engine-22506/



[ame]http://youtu.be/6holUwugJAM[/ame]​

 

[Heffalump]

Wow that's a really nice engine Crueby, I love the sound it makes. It seems to run smoothly quite slow.

 

[Sshire]

Very nice! Slow running is the standard to shoot for. Given enough pressure, you can get just about anything to run. Like this a lot.

 

[Herbiev]

Congratulations Crueby. Well deserved for this little beauty.

 

[crueby]

Thanks much - it was a fun one to build, am currently working out the details on its much bigger brother, a twin-beam double acting engine with two cylinder, 1" bores, 2" stroke, 12" long beams, and watt linkages on the pistons. Am going to make that one a fancier style, with more decoration in the parts. I am finishing up a model/carving project now, and will probably start the bigger engine in about a month. Hope it runs as well as this one did, this is the slowest runner I ever did - which was a surprise given how small the valve assembly is - had to do some of the milling on the valve slide with the tip of a small center drill!

 

[rosenguyen]

Congratulations for this project Crueby, very nice sound and beautiful dimension it made

 

[Swifty]

Congratulations, a very nice looking engine.

Paul.