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My biggest engine, the Maxwell Hemmens single cylinder slide valve marine engine.
A temperamental engine, difficult boiler to fill, sometimes totally refuses to start, drinks gas and steam, and she always burns me.
When she's going though, very sweet. She arrived with the metal base damaged in transit (poorly packed), and I had it repaired by Lynx modelworks,
but when i arrived back to me the steam lines look like they had been mangled and bent back - I won't be using them again.
Unfortunately the boiler feed pump is disconnected in this video, I just need a small metric grub, not sure which though.
Bugsy
A beautiful engine, Miles.
Will it be in a boat one day?
I have metric grub screws, let me know the size and I'll send you one.
redryder
That's a beautiful piece Miles....!!!
It's easy to appreciate the quality that goes into an engine like that.
Gil
ozsteamdemon
A very nice steam plant indeed .
Les
Beautiful and sounds good too.
whistleman
GREAT!
IndianaRog
Miles, that is one gorgeous piece of workmanship...glad you pretty much have it working as desired...sounds like it has had some rough handling by shippers and repair shop.
Beautiful runner too!
Sandman
Jeez, that is impressive Miles.
It's a big chunky machine. Just what I like.
logoman
Thanks fellas! this is the box.
MooseMan
Magnificent - purrs like a kitten.
logoman
Bugsy wrote:
A beautiful engine, Miles.
Will it be in a boat one day?
I have metric grub screws, let me know the size and I'll send you one.
Cheers Bugsy! It's either M3 or M3.5.
I don't thing it would make a practical plant for a boat, the boiler is so tall and top heavy, stability would be a real problem.
Steve_S
Lovely stuff Miles!
Bugsy
logoman wrote:
Bugsy wrote:
A beautiful engine, Miles.
Will it be in a boat one day?
I have metric grub screws, let me know the size and I'll send you one.
Cheers Bugsy! It's either M3 or M3.5.
My set has the following dimensions:
3 x 4, 3 x 6, 4 x 6, 4 x 8, 5 x 8, 4 x 10, 5 x 10, 5 x 12, 6 x 12, 8 x 12, 6 x 16 och 8 x 16 mm.
That's diameter x length.
The actual diameter of an M3 screw is 2.387mm and the pitch is 0.5mm.
For an M3.5 screw the figures are 2.764mm and pitch 0.6mm.
So if you can measure the exact diameter of a screw that fits then we can sort it.
Alternatively if you can measure the inside diameter of the hole the grub screw is going into we can work it out from that.
If it's an M3.5 you need I can get one easily enough locally.
Phil
