This is a short 3-minute video by “rbandes1″ that shows and explains the operation of the “Jingle Bell Steam Engine” he made. It was built from free plans provided by Professor Nial McCabe, who teaches Engineering Technology at the County College of Morris in Randolph, NJ. Professor McCabe
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Jan Ridders has updated plans on his web site for two of his favorite engines: a 2-cylinder flame eater and a Scuderi Split Cylinder internal combustion engine.The flame eater was one of the first engines that Jan drew up detailed plans for and one that has received a lot of interest since he first
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Pete Stanaitis has designed a really nice drilling and tapping block and you can find the plans for it on his web site. A tapping block is a simple but very useful tool used to make sure a tap is started straight in its hole. The tap is much more likely to break if
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Jan Ridders recently updated his plans for a vertical flame eater engine that he originally made in 2003 as a birthday present for his son Marc. He made a number of improvements and redrew the plans using a CAD program. Jan says this engine is “more forceful and noisy” than
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