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Title: Re: Dads Hot Air Engine
Post by: txlabman on September 23, 2021, 09:49:29 am

Very cool.

A Legacy List item for sure. :)

Title: Re: Dads Hot Air Engine
Post by: Jim on September 21, 2021, 06:09:33 pm

What a wonderful thing to own and treasure.

Title: Re: Dads Hot Air Engine
Post by: eifion on September 21, 2021, 11:42:32 am

So glad for you that you got your Dad's engine running , nice engine and great sentimental value

Title: Dads Hot Air Engine
Post by: Quickj on September 19, 2021, 05:25:39 pm

This is a walking beam hot air engine that my father assembled from a kit that he got at Littlemachineshop.com

He was never able to get it to run at all.

After he died, I brought it home and put it on a shelf for several years. 
This past week, I took it all apart. Cleaned, polished, deburred, made a few new parts to replace parts that were poorly made or poorly designed, etc.  I put it back together being careful to minimize friction and with no binding.

This is a video of the 3rd time I ran it after putting it back together.  It will stay running from a cold start after approximately 30 seconds
of heating.  I still need to do a little work on it to eliminate the wobble in the flywheel, and I think I will make a firebox and chimney so the flame doesn't blow around so much. 

https://youtu.be/K5ONaEg5xJQ (https://youtu.be/K5ONaEg5xJQ)