Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

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I'm just wondering if Adriondac Jack's design for the base would work on the horizontal engines? It seems to me that the forces which make those engines jump around would be at 90 degrees to the forces in the vertical engine. I don't have a good enough grasp of the engineering issues to be sure that neat design for the verticals, would perform the same way in the horizontal ones.

Something certainly needs doing though; when mine was operating it was all over the bench. As a stop gap and a quick and dirty fix, putting the engine on top of a folded towel did make it move a lot less. I need a proper solution for mine though.