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

Has anyone come up with an attractive way of securing/mounting Jin's miniature Hit & Miss engines to a plinth?

I have a nice piece of Granit that I am going to use for the base, just haven't gotten around to it yet, should keep it from moving around. have to drop it off at the monument makers to have it cut & drilled.

That sounds like a good solution Bruce. They do jump around like a cat in a sack don't they.

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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.

Brilliant, that is Trevor. Very neat and tidy.

Been looking at lots of methods that fella's have come up with on Youtube and using Google images.

Some clever methods, not sure what way I will go yet.

This would be the best way to mount one 

That is extremely well executed...Wow.

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