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Thank you, everyone, especially Harglo, AndrewW, and a41capt, for your help and support on this. I intend to persevere until this engine works. I think I'd like to follow AndrewW's suggestion and re-drill the crankshaft and gear for a roll pin. Andrew, I do have the 1986/87 "Home Shop...

Well, I took it out today and tried to run it. No joy. Whereas I saw a healthy spark in the basement, when I got outside I couldn't seem to get any response. I checked all the wiring, and it still looked good. I took my power box and checked its operation on the bench with both the "proper"...

Thank you, Brian. I just hope it works all right.

I don't post here often because I'm not much of a machinist, but for once I seem to have made some decent progress on something, so I thought that someone might be interested in what I've done. Here's a Philip Duclos Odds 'n' Ends engine in 1.5 scale that I acquired about two years ago...

I just stick a piece of music wire in the little hole. Works fine. That being said, I think I'll now try storing all of the nozzles in a little jar of thinner; I still have dozens of baby-food jars left from when my son was little-- in 1976.

No Google Earth needed here; I used to live in Barrie, and know Carson Rd. well.

Thanks for the link, CFLBob. I found a brand new 800-foot coil of .020 music wire, still in the box, at the dump, so I am ready to spring into action.

Great idea, Brian. I have an old Pinto 4-speed out in the shed, and that may just work. And I can indeed use the reverse, for undoing mistakes.😇 Looks like all those big power lines across the road from you haven't affected your brain at all....

My Dickins' boiler is fastened to the spectacle plate with a threaded stud screwed into a bushing in the boiler, passed through the plate, and secured with a nut.

Good point. I use my hacksaw a lot, too.

I wondered about that. I may have to look into modifying my "real" band saw with a countershaft. Thanks.

Nice crankshaft Brian! Though I'm not a machinist, I recently tried my hand at this (first time I tried something like this), using mystery steel from a trailer hitch drawbar, and it worked after I annealed it overnight in the wood stove. What I would like to know is what kind of band saw you...

I'd rather have the sailboat engine with the surprise in the crankcase....😏

For tiny holes I use a Cameron precision drill press with PCB carbide drills. https://cameronmicrodrillpress.com/sensitive-manual-micro-drill-presses/new-cameron-214-series/ Found one, complete with a cabinet containing a couple of hundred drills, at a yard sale for cheap-cheap, and wouldn't...

I used a small brass pipe tee (3/8", I think) for the lower unit gearbox.

I made the Polly Wog outboard but not the boat:

For those who may be interested, here's the little Dickins being tested while under construction:

Amazing, Atlantis!

You might want to look at "Dickins," too. The little O gauge loco was designed by Dr. James R. Senft, and was serialized in Live Steam magazine in February-April 1976.

Very clever. Practical, too.