Model Engines and Small Boats
You get a quality reprint of what seems to be a very hard-to-find and therefore expensive book from 1898. And it's a neat little book that will show you how to build small working engines with hand tools. I haven't read every page, but what I've seen, I like. Nowhere do I see the 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.
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 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.
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. Sounds like a great place to start.
Although there are better nuts-and-bolts engine books out there, I knew from the minute I opened this book that it had to be reprinted it. Get a copy. I think you'll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 74 pages
No. 23195 ... $9.95
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