Steam & Stirling Engines You Can Build, edited by William C. Fitt, published by Village Press, Traverse City, Mich., 1980, 2000. 8½ x 11 hardcover, 300 pages. ISBN 0-941653-63-3

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Relaxation is found in many forms. While some find it in the wide open spaces of the great outdoors, others are discovering it measured in thousandths and tens of thousandths of an inch in cozy home workshops.

To this latter group, Steam and Stirling - Engines You Can Build provides direction for the experienced and instruction for the novice in the fast-growing ranks of Amateur Machinists.

The projects presented have been built by men from all walks of life and were designed by hobbyists from an equally broad span of devotees who enjoy model engineering as a fascinating and extremely satisfying past time.

you presently do not have a home workshop, you can start off with Andrew Sprague's Hand-Tool Steam Engines which can be built with the inexpensive hand tools found in almost any home or apartment. Many Live Steam projects have been built using a small electric hand drill as a lathe. Even if space precludes a separate room for a workshop, small-capacity metal-working machinery is available that can be set up on a kitchen table and stored away in a closet or cabinet when not in use. If you want to include some of the larger projects, consider enrolling in a night-school class where adequate facilities are available.

The two main requirements necessary to get you into the Live Steam Hobby are (1) decide and (2) begin!

Contents:

• Stationary Steam Plant, by W. Marshall Black
• An Unusual Steam Engine, by Robert S Hedin
• Half Horse Marine Engine, by Henry Greenly (from 1932, from the collection of Weston Farmer)
• A Brief Prelude, by Weston Farmer
• Moriya (A 10-inch stirling engine powered fan), by Dr. James R. Senft
• A Steam Turbine, by Dale Hobson
• Hand-Tool Steam Engine, by Andrew Sprague
• A Word About Metrics, by William C. Fitt
• Variations On A Theme, by Gary R Slack
• Bijou (A 1/8-inch bore and stroke oscillating cylinder engine), by Dr. James R. Senft
• Thimble Power Plant, by Dr. James R. Senft
• Minikin (The “big brother” of the Thimble and Bijou engines), by Dr. James R. Senft
• Opposed Piston Steam Engine, by Elmer Verburg
• Hot Air Pumping Engine, by Lorry Kazyak
• V-4 Oscillating Cylinder Engine, by Jan Gunnarsson
• Miniature Boiler Works, by Jan Gunnarsson
• Appendix
  • Millimeter to Decimal Inch Conversion Charts, by Lorry Koehl
  • Consecutive Listing of Regular Drill Sizes, by William C Fitt
  • Suppliers

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