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Well i hope you can hear the word "eureka" now i am really winning what you are looking at now is a rolling chassis
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The boiler is the final one 28 x 40 mm with 15mls of water it took 2mins to steam up then there was a spurt of water lasted  about 1sec then it ran non-stop for 5mins just what i wanted
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With the compressor attached it can be walked like a dog up to a point the black wheels ( 1 5/8" ) came as spares along with axles when i bought a Stirling engine they were the ones i first tried but the gearing was a little to slow
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You can see i bought some plastic gears and i found a gear with 56teeth along with the yellow wheels which are 2"dia. and dare i say the speed for me is just perfect of course depending what engine you use you may have to change the gearing when it was running across my table top i laid a pair of pliers on top and it just kept running. So now i`m really back to the experimental stage waiting for a proper UV joint  to arrive hopefully Thursday what i intend to do is to add weight until it stops moving don`t really know if that`s what i should do.........open to comment
Lastly what i need to do before i get serious is to try and work out a burner arrangement so Jim or anyone if you are reading this i`m open to suggestion if a car is what you like to make the transmission works a treat