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A friend of mine Dennis in New Zealand got the haul of a lifetime of literally hundreds and hundreds of parts for Cranko Steam Engines, an old New Zealand company that made Steam Engines from the end of World War II until they closed down in the mid 1950's. All Cranko steam engines are highly...

OKMO Microcosm Model M31 Vertical Steam Engine Single Cylinder First run on live steam of this beautiful brass casted vertical steam engine. Really happy with DIY Modifications that I did and the two timber plinths. Made lots of items using my metal lathe and milling machine. The condenser pot...

Is there a way when parting off to have the left over nib (that at least I always get) stay on the piece that's in the chuck and not on the piece that's been parted off? I've tried adjusting my parting tool every which way over the years and never managed to have that nib not end up on the...

OKMO Microcosm JO6B Miniature Stirling Engine First run of this wonderful little Stirling engine and also a shout out to Nobby Clark and his Myford lathe and steam engineering workshop YouTube channel in England in the U.K.

OKMO / Microcosm S01 Steam Powered Helicopter Really like this helo! Had some fun in the workshop as usual making the timber plinth, drilling and countersinking the aluminium base for a brass wood screw to hold the base to the timber plinth and designing and drilling the mounting holes on my...

OKMO Microcosm P71 Mini Pump mounted on a custom wood plinth with custom plumbing. I had a lot of fun machining up a lot of the metal work and also doing the woodwork and then putting this all together, I have a lot of hours invested in this. Silver brazing up the three copper pot water return...

have a lot of hours in this P71 pump from eBay, enjoyed every minute of making all the metal parts and woodworking. Only thing I haven't done yet is bend and cut the return that will flow the water into the 4" copper water trough as I'm still pondering a few ideas. I did toy with the idea of...

Microcosm Vertical Single Cylinder Steam Engine Model 31 Had a lot of fun building a new plinth base for this engine as well as a chuff pot/condensate trap and some other modifications, enjoyed the woodworking and metalworking and making a lot of the parts on my lathe.

Here's a Sunday morning video of a DIY homemade lamp that I made a few days ago running off a PM Research model generator -

Modified Jensen 20G Orphan Steam Engine Running off a 4" MSM Copper Boiler

Cotswold Cirrus Steam Beam Engine Running a Baker Fan Always a pleasure to run this engine off the 4" boiler.

Having a run of my Enjomor 6cc Hit & Miss Engine which I have done a bit too -

My Grandson & I steaming the new RAT Steam Engine yesterday -

DIY Homemade Rat Steam Engine No.2 It’s the school holidays down here in Oz and we also had a recent Long Weekend (yes we’re the land of the Long Weekend here) and myself and my 13 y.o Grandson made RAT ENGINE #2. (RAT ENGINE #1 we made some time ago).I put out a call if anyone had some Mamod...

Modified OKMO / Microcosm J07 Miniature Stirling Engine A very nice Miniature Stirling Engine it was a real 'dancer' across the table turning and spinning on its fuel tank so I cut and put some 4" x 4" timber in my 4 jaw chuck and bored it out to a tight fit on the lathe for the spirits tank...

Anyone have a clue what this could be? Someone sent this to me in a parcel of other items. It looks professionally made. I did fill it with some butane and when you turn the brass knob it comes out. Any idea what it could be???

Huxtable Stirling Engine being run off a spirits filled Supa Burner.

Okmo Microcosm Miniature Stirling Engine J06G This is another of the very nice Okmo Microcosm J series miniature Stirling Engines. Very elegant in its intricacy to look at and an absolute delight to run.

Has anyone got any photos that the could share of a home built Coal Fired Boiler that they have made or a build thread?