Steam engine plans

[crofty1984]

Hi all, I thought I'd challenge myself and make a little steam engine. Just a single piston going to a flywheel. Does anyone have any advice or plans? I'll be mostly trying to do my own design, but it doesn't hurt to do a bit of research!

[lufbramatt]

Have a look at dr_gn’s Stuart steam engine threads. Can get sets of bare castings to machine up with plans to make all the crank, valve chest etc.

Something like a Stuart 10v sounds like what you want?

Edited by lufbramatt on Friday 29th October 19:05

[NMNeil]

Check out Myfordboy. He has an amazing series of Youtube videos and sells kits.
https://myfordboy.blogspot.com/p/the-myfordboy-ste...

[johnpsanderson]

This might be useful for you? From memory it starts off with Mamod-esque plans and gets a little more complex.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Simple-Model-Ste...

[dr_gn]

johnpsanderson said:

This might be useful for you? From memory it starts off with Mamod-esque plans and gets a little more complex.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Simple-Model-Ste...

There are two volumes I think, someone gave me these years ago:



There’s some good information in them, and plans, but to me it seemed a lot of effort to end up with something that looks…not crude, but too simple and featureless to justify the work in making them. You still need a lathe, and a lot of hand sawing and finishing.

Each to their own of course, but the extra cost and complexity of the 10V was well worth it for me.