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Nice. Complex build for a 1st engine. Keep us up to date on your progress.

SUCCESS! I took a close look at Vic's vid and noticed his burner tube was really close to the flame port. I stuck a small (temporary) spacer under my burner to raise it up and shortened my wick some. I also gave it a few puffs of powdered graphite (in the Key section of the HW store for lubing...

Looking good.

I made a burner today. That was an adventure in itself. My torch blew out 8-10 times so it took forever to heat up. I tried some 45% silv-solder but my torch would not get it hot enough so I used some plumbing solder. I got it done but it looks hideous and will take lots of clean up. No matter...

No way. Just stickpoke I think it's looking great.

Beautiful engine. :bow:

Got parts for a burner today and made some progress on getting it running again. I cleaned it with oven-cleaner--it did a much better job than trying to clean it with brake-cleaner or alcohol as I was using before. While hunting for burner parts I also grabbed a 3-pack of butane lighters. I got...

Wow...what a little screamer that one is. Good job!

Many thanks for the encouragment and kind words. I played with it some more last nite and could not get it to run for more than a few seconds :( I still do not have a proper burner for it and ran out of butane on one lighter. The other lighter I tried puts out way more soot. I've cleaned it...

Very cool looking...have not seen an anodized engine before. Very unique. Thm:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...nothing like loosing control of a steam-roller. Warn the neighbors. Rof}

Yea...it works! Very nice looking and a good runner. :bow: And you beat me to it. >:(

Worked on the base today. DeltaCad to the rescue. I took it all apart and spent 1.5 hours with my mic and caliper measuring and laying out for SIX freekin' holes. But they have to be close to perfect to line up everything and cut down on friction. This is the result: I printed it out to scale...

Spacers. Made two 1mm thick and two 2mm thick spacers. What a pain. I don't know how guys work with stuff this small all the time.: Cyl support almost done: Cyl Support done. I copied the decorative holes from the flywheel supports: The next project will be the base. Measuring everthing...

Sweet! With all that you've got left to do we should see videos of it running by end of the weekend! ;D

Nick, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Sorry for copying your design--but there's only so many ways to make these things. :big: Doing it this way is easier than makeing shorter supports and then turning 4 legs for it. I think I'll make some sort of bracket instead of legs for the cyl...

Bearing supports done. Got a nasty scratch in one when I was roughing out the final shape on the bandsaw. And a minor catastrophe. I snapped the end off a center drill in the last mounting hole. Luckily it's a thru-hole so I was able to drill from the other side. Although these are made...

A guy who built one of the lamina-flow engines used a diamond cut-off wheel (Dremel tool type). Hold saw stationary and rotate the tube to score/cut it. Says it worked fine.

Bearing support. Two pieces fly-cut to thickness then super-glued together. Rough layout then center-drilled for the bearing pocket: One done--poorly. I hate boring on the mill compared to the lathe. Too many start/stop/measure/adjust. And it went from no fit to drops right in. There is no...

A stirling for the 1st engine. And a fine looking and running one at that. :bow: