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I am new here. but I have been a member of MANY forums for a long time. but this forum is the worst when it comes to dealing with pictures and uploading pictures. jeez.... pc and android I know if you click this, and this and then this, all will work. but this is not a very intuitive setup AT...

I figure before i get seriouse about a steam engine, i need to get my tools up to par. So here is after 4 hours lapping the ways on my lathe. Tomorow, i will be building my aluminum forge. They are 100% better but still need work. Not bad for my first try. I did the ways and both joints on the...

I have been thinking About this very thing. I bought stuff today to make a propaine forge. I have been breaking up scrap aluminum and i spent most of the day lapping in the ways on my harbor freight boat anchor lathe. Started with 3 rounds of permatex valve lapping compound follow by blue magic...

It just hit me... i can laminate the crank case using hard silver solder. The key to making it work is sleeving the cylinders!!!!!!!!

Steam engine

after looking at the cost of metal, I am going to hit the scrap yards. https://www.speedymetals.com/ good stuff here but the cost is OUT THERE!!!

Great tips Wizard69. thanks. now that I know what materials to use for the bearing blocks, I can start really designing it. and the harbor freight lathe 7x 11 boat anchor does work pretty decent now that I got 95% of the slop out of the cross slide. I am currently building a quick change tool...

for me, I draw on paper first. then I draw in in 3d on the computer. then I build. right now, I still have alot of planning to do on paper

i would have to consider myself more qualified than most to build a boiler.. lol. I graduated from tampa bay tech in 1996. I studied welding (metalurgy) for 4 years there. Arc, mig, tig, and torch: soldering, welding, brazing, and cutting, we built alot of trailers and grills and battering rams...

ok????? if you say so.....

is there a rule of thumb about bore and stroke and steam pressure required? are there any links to steam engine math?

yes I do understand lathe capabilities. I have every limitation in the book and then some because i have the famous harbor freight 7". it would serve better as a anchor for my boat. but I also understand about how the jaws grip softer metal. and I know first hand how sh** can go flying out of...

This whole post is troll food i know,:fan: but I have questions being a noob model steam engine builder. i bough a small lathe about a month ago after seeing some model steam engines I knew I wanted to build one or 20. so i have been watching 500,000,000,000 youtube videos on model steam...