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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Videos The Office of Steam Cinema => Topic started by: crazydoug on April 29, 2020, 08:30:13 pm

Title: Re: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: Hero on May 05, 2020, 08:19:13 pm

Good one! Ticks right along.

Title: Re: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: Steam Technology on May 03, 2020, 11:33:42 pm

Great engine.

Title: Re: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: txlabman on April 30, 2020, 11:43:41 am

Looks like a nice BIN Doug!

Thanks for posting the video.

Title: Re: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: Nick on April 29, 2020, 09:56:33 pm

Never seen it, but I would have loved to have hit the BIN on it! Very Nice!!  8)

Title: Re: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: Stoker on April 29, 2020, 08:54:43 pm

Very Nice ..... Very NICE Indeed!!!

Title: Paul Breisch Half-Scale Cretors Popcorn Engine
Post by: crazydoug on April 29, 2020, 08:30:13 pm

With everyone home 24/7 because of the covid 19 virus, it's getting harder and harder to be the first one to click on a good buy-it-now on Ebay.  This little half-scale replica Cretors came up for sale on Ebay a few days ago, and although I wasn't the first to see it, I was the first to decide that the buy-it-now price was a really good one, and I did not hesitate. 

I've done nothing to it but oil the appropriate places, and other than a very slight knock at low speeds, it runs excellently, smoothly, and at under 1 psi.  I doubt that this engine was built to run on steam, so I will probably do a tear-down and inspection before trying it on steam.  My guess would be a cast-iron piston and proper rings will be necessary, along with some packing around the glands. 

https://youtu.be/bXDMc7tqflA