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Steam engine - homemade

Steam powered vehicle performed manually

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Juan de Dios Baile Garcia21/04/2016 17:20:33
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Hello,
I'm new in this forum.
I would show my work.
I started with this hobby four years ago and this was my first engine:

https://youtu.be/3ToSUAvUF34

Later I got to build this car:

https://youtu.be/Rf9X8KNWccE

Greetings.

Thor 🇳🇴21/04/2016 19:01:45
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Nice steam wagon Juan and welcome to the forum.

Thor

SillyOldDuffer21/04/2016 19:48:02
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Nice engines Juan. Welcome to the Forum and Viva Espana!

Cheers,

Dave

fizzy21/04/2016 20:04:28
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love the mad max car!

Juan de Dios Baile Garcia21/04/2016 20:46:10
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Thanks for your comments.
I feel that the videos are not visible. I did not do well, I will try to fix it

Robbo21/04/2016 22:27:05
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Your videos are easily seen by pasting your links into the browser.

Thanks for sharing them

Michael Gilligan21/04/2016 23:05:04
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Video_1

Video_2

Great work ... thanks for sharing.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 21/04/2016 23:08:21

Juan de Dios Baile Garcia22/04/2016 10:16:06
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Thank you very much Michael. I think now how.
After making the car I wanted him steering the rear axle. Powered by a steel cable like the old remote control cars:

Video 3

As it has a single cylinder 12 mm. diameter lacked strength and increase the diameter to 14 mm.
This is the result:

Video 4

Video 5

Then another cable controlled the passage of steam. I also built wheels:

Video 6

I hope having published it right this time.

Juan de Dios Baile Garcia23/04/2016 09:49:31
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Hello,
When testing the car I noticed that the curves slowed and the driving wheels skid slightly. To fix I decided to make a differential.
I changed the tractor to the rear axle and the front direction.
I did the front axle swing arm to better fit the ground.
Now it works much better.
This video shows the construction of differential and tests:

Video 7

My tools are slim, I have only an electric drill and hand tools.
My knowledge of mechanics were almost nil but my enthusiasm to get to an engine was big

Thank you for your attention and best regards

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