MODEL ENGINES & SMALL BOATS by NEVIL MONROE HOPKINS

MODEL ENGINES

and SMALL BOATS

By Nevil Monroe Hopkins

[A Quality Reprint]

"New methods of engine and boiler making with a chapter on Elementary Ship Design and Construction."

You get a quality reprint of what seems to be a very hard-to-find and therefore expensive book from 1898. It's a neat little book that will show you how to build small working engines with hand tools. No need for a lathe or a milling machine. You need a hacksaw, vise, files, drills, and other hand tools. You need to know how to soft solder, although if I were to build any boiler I wouldn't consider anything less than silver solder for strength and melting point.

You get many drawings, but they're not dimensioned. The author assures us that they were made from working drawings and, therefore, each part is seen in relative size. You could probably blow them up with a copy machine or scanner to desired size.

Chapters include:  single-acting engines, double-acting engines, new method of cylinder making, model reversing screw engine, shell boiler, safety valve, water tube boiler, elementary ship design, and hull construction.

You don't need a lathe to build an engine. So even if you haven't acquired one yet, you can still have fun building little machines that actually run and can power a small boat.

5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover &74 pages.

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Thank you for looking!