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Have any of you 3D printed a steam engine. This came to mind when I was working on the internal gear for Elmer's Geared Steam Engine and...

I have the internal gear drawn and I can draw the spur gear with no problem. Have you or anyone else made a complete 3D engine like...

I am working on drawing the gear so that I can 3D print it. I would be interested to see how a completely 3D printed engine would work...

Mine has a dial set to "bake" then a temp setting and a time setting so I set it to Bake/400°/15 minutes. It also has an option to stay...

I wonder about making the gear with my 3D printer. I made a gear for my Covel band saw a couple of years ago with ABS and it seems to be...

I had not thought about making it in three pieces. I have the Mod cutters so it is possible. Making the external gear is easy and I will...

Brian: didn't you buy a kiln a couple of years ago? I added the PID control to mine because the original temperature control was just a...

I built Elmer's geared steam engine several years ago and have since sold it. It is a neat engine but it has an internal gear which he...

OK I finally got this thing to run. Opened up the intake and exhaust ports. Made the cam follower forks wider. Plans call for .130" to...

Believe me you would not see anything with a photo. This thing is only about 3" and whatever is wrong is happening internally and is not...

Maybe for you it is a few minutes work. For me that would be at least an hours work. I do not work with the program enough to actually...

Not really a good option. It is just as easy to remake it. A sleeve would be about 3/8 ID x 7/16 OD and the new vertical port to replace...

I think that I have found the problem or at least a problem. Elmer calls for the inlet/exhaust port into the cylinder at a 15° angle...

Jason: Tried to do a section but did not figure it out so that it shows what I want but this shows the pressure port on the right...

I must be missing something on this engine. I do not seem to be getting any appreciable rotary action on this thing in any position. In...