Home-made Homemade Home made Steam Engine

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Uploaded by on Jul 19, 2008

"Home made steam engine" "homemade steam engine"
First engine I ever built.
Built in a month of spare time, with no lathe.
Double acting, and reversing.

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  • Finally some one built one on a scale that could be usable for something!!! I tip my hat to you sir! Good job.

  • @lugerstonecock

    Why thank you sir. Most kind.

    Have you seen my other video of my 4 cylinder steam engine being made? Should have it running soon. Check it out...

  • Hello! Lovely engine; a wonderful piece of craftsmanship.

    I have a couple of questions, as I will be constructing one of my own sometimes soon; what did you use to construct the cylinders, and do you have any plans for the Stephenson link (or whatever reversing gear you're using) you've used on your engine? And also, how did you fabricate the eccentrics?

  • Cheers...

    The piston and cylinder is from a renault 5 turbo as it has removable liners. I cut the piston down to about 2 inches to maximise stroke. Piston rod is silver steel with thread cut on end, screws into piston with locknut and head housed to accomodate nut.

    Google 'build steam engine without lathe' for reversing link etc. jp7

    Eccentrics were cut square, bolted together, corners cut off then held bolt in pillar drill. I used a grinder, then file, then oil stone. Hope this helps.

  • what are you using for a fly wheel? thats very cool!

  • Hi there.

    The flywheel is a rear wheel from a 1977 Kawasaki Z250. The piston and cylinder are from a Renault 5 turbo (has removable liners...) andI build the rest myself.

    Cheers...

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  • this is my insparation sir how much power are u making and what kind of belt did u use, i love it =3-

  • One word ... AMAZING !!!

  • Dude you're my hero...

  • @monsterrravingloony I wonder about the difficulty of building a safe boiler, I ordered the catechism of steam hoping to learn the many do's and dont's of boiler design, the last thing I want is to be killed ny my own boiler.

  • Hats off! Well done!

  • is it good to burn wood to make steam to turn generator for electricity

  • @OlympicClassDandy you can get pnumatic cylinders off of ebay for only 14.00 and they work fine with steam.

  • Good job kid am proud of you

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