Saturday, October 06, 2012

(10-06-2012) Steam engine


Today Flash and I looked at this Hack A Day article and decided to give it a try.  The video is an example of our results.  We used a piece of a plastic ball point pen as a push rod to open the valve and it didn't last too long, but otherwise it works very well.  Not very efficient, but a whole lot of fun and easy to make.  We probably had it running in less than 30 minutes, and most of that time was hunting for adapters to connect the air hose to the engine.

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