Howdy Dan from western Canada here, interested but no time for many years now retired and bought a Sherline 4000 lathe with milling attachment and some other goodies..
I've built a couple engines, a little wobbler of course and an open column launch engine both of which actually work much to my surprise and aren't even totally too hard to look at..wanted to try something a little more difficult so started on Elmers Slider, a small horizontal double acting steam engine with sliding valve assembly. I'm using plans from the copyright free John-Tom web site but photos are very poor and printed plans a little difficult for a new guy.
Hoping someone will have photos or a little more info on the cylinder and sliding valve assembly as I'm having trouble visualizing what this thing is supposed to look like. I'm sure there have been many of these built and look forward to hearing from anyone with more experience and info than I have, thank you in advance....
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I've built a couple engines, a little wobbler of course and an open column launch engine both of which actually work much to my surprise and aren't even totally too hard to look at..wanted to try something a little more difficult so started on Elmers Slider, a small horizontal double acting steam engine with sliding valve assembly. I'm using plans from the copyright free John-Tom web site but photos are very poor and printed plans a little difficult for a new guy.
Hoping someone will have photos or a little more info on the cylinder and sliding valve assembly as I'm having trouble visualizing what this thing is supposed to look like. I'm sure there have been many of these built and look forward to hearing from anyone with more experience and info than I have, thank you in advance....
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