Rotary Cam Steam Engine

The third engine i've build, again a Elmer Verburg design.
The engine has been modified and re-designed on several points, just to make it look more interesting and somewhat upgrade it's performance.
The end rollers have been replaced by ball bearings to reduce friction. Also the forks which would follow the cam have been replaced by an aligning rod; making sure the orientation of the bearings in the cam is ok.
The cam itselve is only used on one half (incase rotation direction change is not required), therefore i've cut the excess, making it look more complex.
It runs nicely on about 0.5 bar (7 psi), this is the start-up pressure in the video.

music: Mark Messner, Hey You

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• rotary
• cam
• curve
• steam
• engine
• elmer
• verburg
• compressed
• air
• model
• mill
• lathe

[djones8826]

Very beautiful. Great detail and like how you hid the feed into the base.

Great job.

[Dividedhead]

Now that's a very nicely crafted engine.

I can see I'll have to watch your other videos tonight :-)

very impressed by the "half pipe" and like the inserted flywheel, it's always nice to see a bit more effort in the flywheel :-)

Anyway,

point being.... A very nice machine you've built there!

Ralph.

[rayunseitig]

Very fine.

[ryan1the8grate]

thats cool!

[SR722]

Phenomenal work!

[superfunnyman123]

Strange? but cool!

[campbellhyde08]

thats an interesting design, looks like it runs smooth too, nice!

[latheworks]

Great little engine you to there! Nice machining!