How To Build A Steam Engine: Build a Steam Engine from Scratch -Full Beginners Guide with Drawings - Easy to understand - Mostly hand tools - Small amount of lathe work - Many built already

What an interesting book this was. Liked how Each step was described with detail and clear instructions. Also like the precision details and engineering step by step.

Great book full of useful information and hints and tips. Would love to try building it and see if I can get it to go.

Enjoying the build, but the book is full of errors that you need to watch out for

Good book but a bit hard to follow in places but have started the builds one

a very good down to earth book easy to under stand

I do not consider that this book is easy to understand or suitable for a beginner,especially when there are considerable errors throughout. The diagram quality is poor in places and some duplicated diagrams have different sizes. No conformation to conventional drawing standards have been used. Copious written detail could have been avoided with larger and clearly dimensioned drawings, and correct conversion from imperial to metric sizes ( there are lots of these errors). This could cause considerable difficulty and additional expense. I advise careful checking here,too late when the material has been cut I strongly advise anyone not to mill out the steam chest using a drilling machine, this is not safe. Get someone to do it properly on a vertical mill!! Some of the lathe work will require considerable thought, especially if a hobby lathe is used. Take care, chunks of steel or brass rotating in chucks with small jaws may simply fly out. This is most certainly not novice level lathework. There are no page numbers or chapter headings, I had to post stick the chapters Too many references to a previously built engine, and on going assumption that the reader can get by. Having researched further, this engine is certainly cheaper than a fully geared one, the cost of standard components will ramp the cost up quickly. At the time of writing the three cock water gauge is over £100.00. The time scale is also elastic, expect it to take far longer. Building jigs to assist making will add lots of hours. This is definitely not for the fainthearted, I have spent a lot of time reading and redrawing the components to make details as clear as possible. I have also started the steel work first, the cheapest option in case things go awry. Be prepared to practice your skills if you are a beginner, I am not in this category and have had to do a lot of head scratching. The boiler build details are now outdated, flanged end plates are required and the boiler tube needs a thicker wall, this will cause fixing problems when the engine is assembled towards the end of the build. Also heating becomes trickier with more copper to heat up. The mechanical water pump should run all the time, if the engine is idling water is being boiled away. To meet requirements of two means of delivering water to the boiler. I have had to install a 12v water pump. Please make significant amendments and update this book. Which will make it more pertinent and relevant to the engine that is being built! Photographs and reference to a previously built engine is an unacceptable and a poor shortcut, not enough photographs from differing angles of what you should be working towards! A proper set of accurate working drawings on either paper or CD would make an incredible difference.

Spot on step by step guide

The book has some pictures and an index tell you the page number. But the pages are not number so it's had to get to where you want to be

From Spain I tell you, this book speak steap to steap to make an model engine motor, each piece, each measure. Its perfect

Excellent book can't wait to build this one

Pour du bricolage

I waas dissapointed with the book. The pages were not numbered. There is about half the room on the page filled with text and a lot of empty space around text. The letters could be bigger and that way there would be less wasted space and easilly readable. I am sure the first original print was good and the book was good, but his amazon print is bad.

Haven't started yet but while not a beginners guide in my opinion does seem to have a lot of detail.