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Finished of the expansion link assembly this morning. Its the bit that puts the loco in reverse I'm going to park this project for a short while as I'm starting to get weary of it and I don't want my concentration to wonder and end up makeing a cock up. So I'm going to make a start on...

Well I guess its time i brought you all up to date with this project, I must admit I've been a little remis at taking picture the reason being is my trusty old shop camera started playing silly buggers, and I've only just got a replacement. So what have i been up to:- well I've more or less...

It runs CCW if you feed the air in the other way through the centre it will run in reverse, I know some guys who have built this type of engine with a two way valve so they can reverse it. I had to check the vid of my engine running as i couldn't remember which way it ran...

Hi Gordon Pleased to her that you've built the engine. To answer the ? regarding the drive pin, looking at the pin from the top it should be on the right as shown in the drawing and 100 deg from the drive slot, getting these features along with the two flats on the crank and the corect...

Gus Teng. Please mail me the HK websites to look at. This is the main one http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/ctctools/StoreFront Stew

Hi Colin Thanks for you're interest the drawings have not been tested I'e I've not made the engine yet, so there is a distinc posibility for errors. To answer you ? Q1:- The front cover Part 3 looks as though Part 5 (Valve stem guide) has the piston rod going through it. A1:- Looks like...

Thanks Geoff: no need for an apology it always amuses me when things go off on a tangent, in an interesting debate. *discussion* I'm planning to draw up a series of simple engines based around common standard parts, I've got a vertical 1/2 drawn, and a grasshopper sketched out, don't know...

My word Les you've made a cracking job of that flywheel Stew

Yes it works Pat ;) Stew

Thanks for your interest guys Playing the Devil's advocate a bit - Stew's drawing is actually dimensionless! With the exception of threads, you could quite happily build it using the same numbers in millimetres, inches, or "Chinese inches" (though the later would be quite big at 488mm bore!)...

I've drawn up a simple mill engine that can be made without the use of a mill, I've attached the plans so have fun Stew

Hi Les Just caught up on you're progress (where have all the smilies gone) :o) Great work its looking really good Stew

Whilst serfing the net came across a free down load of a book called Steam and the Steam Engine printed in 1873, I like to check these old books for any unusual engines and came across a reference to a Ramsbottom Intermedial Engine this is all the book said about it The only other reference is...

Hi Ian No :- the plan came from a request from a member of the Dake family, I didn't want to take on the work so i asked a friend runs a small engineering firm to quote, the price came out at £1500 each so that put an end to that idea. Some time back I did make a batch of twin osylators to...

Thanks Chaps, it was one of those engines that i just had to build took me a while to get my head round how to make it, I must have machined it a 1000 times in my mind :wall: I must thank Pat Jorgensen for the information he provided me about the Dake engine his late father Bob built...

Thanks Ernie :- the ME position came out of the blue, I was very flatered that they asked me. Art/Phil:- Thanks for your interest and kind comments Stew

Few months ago completed a Dake square piston engine. And a few videos http://youtu.be/I_QJA6c1pPg http://youtu.be/p7Ta4IlA0XQ Stew

True very true ;D ;D A bit more progress I seem to swapping about on this I like to work a bit more methodical, but I keep having to put parts aside whilst I wait delivery of something, I've tried planning ahead but my plans keep comming unstuck. Cut a sqaure in the streacher that covers the...

Three Cylinder Steam Radial Engine from Bar stock

Three Cylinder Steam Radial Engine from Bar stock