New Toy

[den]

I have a new toy.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

EEE!

Make it go make it go!

I gotta get the steam tractor parade sent to yet

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

it IS going! look at the flywheel!

[beki.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooh Spiffy!

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Spiffy. :D

My dad has one similar

[andrewmacrae.livejournal.com]

sweet! how cool.

btw, have you seen these? http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Yes! I lust after his toys!

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is cool :)

Or should I say hot?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

STEAM!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

~It went zip! when it moved and pop! when it stopped and whirrrrrrrr when it stood still~:D
Nifty!

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I never knew just what it was, and I guess I never will!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

*peers* Stevenson's pasta machine?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Just a jump back to old tech

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Very nice. What's firing it? Gas? Coal? Wood?

There's just something about steam that speaks of raw power. A real sweet toy.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

They are fueled by small tablets of solid fuel. The handle for the pan which holds them can be seen sticking out from under boiler low left.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's fired by little spirit tablets. Wilesco also do electrical heaters and butane burners for their engines.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

We had one of those, growing up! Where did you find it?!

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

They are fairly readily available in many parts of the world, Mamod used to make a lot for Europe and may still do so.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I ordered it from a local hobby shop. This is a Wilseco engine.

http://www.wilesco.de/wilesco/us/index.html

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I actually made one of these things (well pretty close to it, mine had a vertical cylinder with a separate meths fueled boiler) for my A level "Engineering Workshop, Theory and Practice". I also made a rolled steel document case, and a fully working footpump. And I still only got a grade B.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

first glimpse I had of this particular beastie, I thought it was some sort of steam-punk video camera, and I was thinking 'how nifty! they've made a heat powered digital camera, that's very interesting'

Then I realised it was just a miniature steam engine, and I was like "awww, that's not quite as cool"

Stukk nufty though

[steve3.livejournal.com]

Have you got the air conditioning on to make it more efficient. and the flywheel should be driving a generator to run your computer

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I already have steam generators running my computer. They're down in Lithgow.