Hi all,
As I have been lurking on this forum for more than a year, I thought is was time to introduce myself. As most I really have learned a lot on this forum - although I cannot say exactly what and from whom.
Age: 37, male, Dutch, two kids (1 and 3).
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by steam, steam engines, and steam trains. My first steam engine I got as a present when I was something like 9 or 10 years old. It was one the smallest Mamod oscillators. It took me a long time to figure out why it would not run the other direction when I spun the flywheel the other direction! And I wrecked putting it on the gas stove in my mother's kitchen to make it run faster. The soft solder simply melted and the cilinder disintegrated. But trying to reassamble it was als a good learning experience.
The Mamod oscilator provided the basic dimensions of a home made oscilator which I finalized a number of years ago. It even ran under steam. So now that I proved to myself that I could shape metal also using a saw, file, sandpaper, I started a larger project, a two cilinder with stephenson valve gear. It is the "Neptunus" from plans published in the handbook of steam model engines (Dutch). It is a 15 mm bore, 22 mm stroke angine made from bar stock. Now this project I realized after while: I would never finish it without a late. And even with a lathe it took me a long time. Did I already tell you that I drool at the progress rate some of you achieve? I would love to do a build log, but progress would just not be fast enough to keep any audience's attention. But I digress, as a picture is worth a thousand words, I will try to add one:
Yesterday I ran it for the first time on air, and it runs on 0.6 bar bicycle pump muscle driven pressure. I have taken a video from this event, which I will post on the "show it" forum.
BTW, does anyone know how to solve the fact that on this editor window, the view is centered. The window however is very narrow (text does not fit the editor window) normal behaviour would be that the view just follows the position of the scrollbar. However, it just flips back to the vertical center of the text. Which means I cannot see what I am typing, and I really need that direct feedback - my typing skills are at best mediocre.
I am afraid that I will not be an extremely active poster, but where posible I will try to contribute to this community.
Henk
As I have been lurking on this forum for more than a year, I thought is was time to introduce myself. As most I really have learned a lot on this forum - although I cannot say exactly what and from whom.
Age: 37, male, Dutch, two kids (1 and 3).
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by steam, steam engines, and steam trains. My first steam engine I got as a present when I was something like 9 or 10 years old. It was one the smallest Mamod oscillators. It took me a long time to figure out why it would not run the other direction when I spun the flywheel the other direction! And I wrecked putting it on the gas stove in my mother's kitchen to make it run faster. The soft solder simply melted and the cilinder disintegrated. But trying to reassamble it was als a good learning experience.
The Mamod oscilator provided the basic dimensions of a home made oscilator which I finalized a number of years ago. It even ran under steam. So now that I proved to myself that I could shape metal also using a saw, file, sandpaper, I started a larger project, a two cilinder with stephenson valve gear. It is the "Neptunus" from plans published in the handbook of steam model engines (Dutch). It is a 15 mm bore, 22 mm stroke angine made from bar stock. Now this project I realized after while: I would never finish it without a late. And even with a lathe it took me a long time. Did I already tell you that I drool at the progress rate some of you achieve? I would love to do a build log, but progress would just not be fast enough to keep any audience's attention. But I digress, as a picture is worth a thousand words, I will try to add one:
Yesterday I ran it for the first time on air, and it runs on 0.6 bar bicycle pump muscle driven pressure. I have taken a video from this event, which I will post on the "show it" forum.
BTW, does anyone know how to solve the fact that on this editor window, the view is centered. The window however is very narrow (text does not fit the editor window) normal behaviour would be that the view just follows the position of the scrollbar. However, it just flips back to the vertical center of the text. Which means I cannot see what I am typing, and I really need that direct feedback - my typing skills are at best mediocre.
I am afraid that I will not be an extremely active poster, but where posible I will try to contribute to this community.
Henk
