Small Beam Engine
Built by Dick Watson in October 2008
At our last Hands-On Workshop we decided to use a modified version of a little 0 set Beam Engine model which appeared on the Spanner website.
I wondered whether it could be fitted with Watt’s Sun and Planet Gear and his Straight Line Linkage. This is my second attempt — the first is quite a bit bigger.
The cylinder is in a skeleton form so that you can see whether the straight line linkage is doing its job. Two turns of the flywheel are needed to get the piston to go up and down once.