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Uploaded by on Aug 3, 2007

A small steam engine

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  • I greatly appreciate this. since I do not have the time I rely on other people making these kinds of things so I can dream of when I can have time to make model engines and such

  • Jay,

    I made this engine a fair while ago, and it was completed in about 5 hours. So finding the time to make engines isn't all that difficult, even a complicated type will only usually take a couple of weeks.

  • Have you tried it under steam?

  • Yes it has been steamed, but only the once. I burned my fingers trying to hold it.

    It didn't run too well, the silicon pipe caused a bit of a restriction.

  • This engine is in fact based on the port timing of the 'Jenny Wren', a design by Tubal Cain (Tom Walshaw).

    It is just a standard single acting oscillating engine.

    It was made for a bit of light relief and took less than a day. The crankshaft is in fact one piece, machined from the solid.

    The hardest part was in fact getting the air supply to the engine, I eventually used a very small syringe needle as the inlet pipe. Everything is silver soldered, not soft soldered together.

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  • amazing! i am a huge admirerer (epic typo) i should be getting the barstock kit for the liney thimble similar to the rocker engine u built but i have to asy this is truely amazing great job two thumbs up !

  • very nice...

    does it run on a fish pump?

  • I give you all the credit for doing something that small.

  • i too made a jenny wren. i made the whole boiler and all.

    nice little conversation piece.

  • ebay.

  • I've always wanted one of thoose the bad thing is that in bulgaria we dont have steam engines and i don't have credit card to buy one from ebay

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