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# Making Simple Model Steam Engines

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Review: Helpful book. - An interesting and well written book. Informative as well as easy reading. It gives a good description of the production methodes as well as drawings and mesurments. I liked the way the aouthor handels the different mesuring systems, i,e Metric as well as Imperial.
Review: Excellent hobby book - Gives good instructions on how to build a number of small stationary steam engines and boilers to power them. Has plenty of diagrams and photos to guide you. The book is aimed at beginners. There is nothing very complicated here. These are very simple engines, not scale models of actual engines used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most real workhorse engines were considerably more complex than these are. Even for those interested in building scale models, this book is a good starting point. Experience gainned from these simple models will go a long way toward being able to build more complex engines.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #539,119 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #119 in Machinery Engineering (Books) #200 in Model Building #202 in Metal Work (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (201) |
| Dimensions  | 7.75 x 0.65 x 9.79 inches |
| Edition  | 0 |
| ISBN-10  | 1861267738 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1861267733 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 192 pages |
| Publication date  | December 1, 2005 |
| Publisher  | The Crowood Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Helpful book.
*by G***N on December 14, 2022*

An interesting and well written book. Informative as well as easy reading. It gives a good description of the production methodes as well as drawings and mesurments. I liked the way the aouthor handels the different mesuring systems, i,e Metric as well as Imperial.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent hobby book
*by M***D on December 18, 2009*

Gives good instructions on how to build a number of small stationary steam engines and boilers to power them. Has plenty of diagrams and photos to guide you. The book is aimed at beginners. There is nothing very complicated here. These are very simple engines, not scale models of actual engines used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most real workhorse engines were considerably more complex than these are. Even for those interested in building scale models, this book is a good starting point. Experience gainned from these simple models will go a long way toward being able to build more complex engines.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I renamed this book
*by S***H on July 31, 2017*

"Fairly Simple Construction of Simple Steam Engines For The Intermedient to advanced Hobby Machinist. I bought a lathe and set up a dedicated metal shop a year ago, producing a lot of fun low to moderately precise objects- black powder cannons, tools and metal parts, etc. My other goal was steam engines and hopefully model steam locomotives. I collect self-learning skill instruction books and find this one outstanding as to readability, illustrations, etc. But the author's awe shucks, hand tools delivery belies a lot of skills and tools necessary to produce a precision steam engine. Can't find a commercial D bit at Lowe's? Use your blacksmithing skills to make and heat treat/oil quinch and temper your own. I finally produced a well working, non leaking one of his simple engines after breaking down and acquiring a milling machine mostly as a precision drill necessary to accurately drill 4 1/16 holes for the double acting models. I found jigs to be cumbersome and difficult to secure to the stock to be drilled. Some of the measurements/dimensions are suspect. If the clapper engine is accurately built per plans there is no room for steam passage. What is between the lines is that after accurate part production and assembly it takes a day or so to tweak, de-burr, and introduce some slop here and there to get really friction free action. I thank the author for making me learn the machinist mind-set as to accurate lay-out, precision drilling, good tap and die techniques, and the humility and patience to remake innaccurate parts. One last suggestion to the more skilled just starting on steam engines- there are lots of plans on the internet for larger engines such as Gerry's beam and Elmer's grasshopper, especially if you like metal and woodwork.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Making Simple Model Steam Engines
- Making Small Gas-Fired Boilers for Steam Models (Crowood Metalworking Guides)
- Steam Engine Design and Mechanism

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