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| SignalFailure |
Scratchbuilt engine almost completeHere's a picture of my latest engine, a simple single-acting twin cylinder of my own design - I was aiming for a chunky workman-like appearance. It's 8mm bore x 13mm stroke. [/img]
Still got some bits to do (replace the readymade nuts & springs so it's 100% fabricated and add steam connections) but it's not far off. |
| MooseMan |
That looks the business - very nice work! Does it run well? |
| Steve_S |
Chunky and workman-like is exactly right. It looks very good, and I'll bet it has plenty of power for its size too. Good stuff! |
| Andy |
well done deffienly look the business |
| tmuir |
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
Looks good. I also looked at your website last night and see you have made a couple of Stan Bray's engines. I plan on having a go at them this year. I look forward to your posts. |
| johnreid |
that is so cool, you do great looking work. Welcome and please share more. |
| Reid |
Hello and thanks for showing this Signal Success.
It is cool to see clean custom fabrication like yours. More to come soon I hope! Welcome! Reid |
| Cranko |
Nice looking engine . Welcome to the forum from New Zealand , which part of the world are you from 
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| SignalFailure |
Thanks for the kind words and the welcome 
Mooseman: It hasn't been steamed yet (no connections and boiler only part made at present) but it turns over wll using my custom running in method:- hold the flywheel against a thick rubber band slipped over the lathe chuck 
tmuir: Just double-check everything with the Stan Bray book as some of the measuements are wrong (at least the metric plans that I've used). I used the basic dimensions from his 'Twinky' engine for this model but as you can see it's rather different in appearance! I also decided to make this one a 'solder-free' engine. Cranko: I'm in England, but you can't have everything 
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| Wallace |
That looks great, and very solid. 
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| toxx |
... it looks no-nonsense, heavy duty and professional. Congrats, mate! And welcome to the forum!
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| bessytractor |
hooray another scratchbuilder!
welcome to the forums, great engine, I have yet to make a twin cylinder one. |
| SignalFailure |
Got it running on <5psi aquarium pump (although not in horizontal position yet )
http://www.artefact-rescue.co.uk/video/twinmov.mov |
| bessytractor |
utterly marvellous!
the fact it runs on 5 psi shows it was well made in the first place, my two, granted a lot bigger but still, run happily on 20 psi. I've never been able to throttle them down like that! Well done! |
| SignalFailure |
Cheers matey, glad you liked it! |
| johnreid |
Real nice, wish I was able to make things like that, I used a couple of Lathes at a job I used to have, I wish I had been into this hobby at that time. We had two Lathes, a Surface Grinder, and various other shop tools that would have been great for projects like that. |
| SignalFailure |
Get yourself a $500 mini-lathe and the world's your oyster. Or something like that.... |