Category: Stuart 10v

I decided to paint Brunswick green with a cream flywheel. I still need to put on the cylinder cover and then mount it on a wooden board. It is coming together slowly! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAE83RaI8t0

Here is the first run… a few issues but got it running after a short time tweeking it… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqvkCOToho

I`m not ashamed to say I made quite a few errors during the build of which I`ve learnt from all of them. Here are my errors and how I got around them or the modifications I needed to do to overcome them: First, in the video I...

I`ve been working on this during the odd few minutes I get in my free time so no construction pictures again although most of these parts were quite straight forward. So here is everything together Steam chest mounted –...

Got back on track with the 10V this week. I got to the stage where I had finished the crank and con rod. This was a real pain because the con rod had been started, the only piece that had been touched on the entire set when I...

I`ve been making some steady progress on this engine and finally I feel I`m getting somewhere. I finished the bearings but it was hard work. My drill wondered on the first hole which made it very tough to re-centre. I managed it...

I had a week off due to being away with work and then when I came back had man flu and felt terrible. However, I had withdrawal symptoms from the workshop so braved a few hours down there, in which time I managed to break my...

I managed to finish the more critical bottom cylinder cover today. As I mentiond in my last update, I needed a 5/32″ reamer, I could have waited until the midlands show but a local friend I have recently made had one on...

I`ve still been working on this over the weekend with some progress and what I did attempt seems to have gone well. I first finished off the cylinder and also drilled the steam ports including drilling and tapping the exhaust. I...

Well first problem this evening was of my own doing! I`ve managed to do a superb bore that I`m really pleased with and then I went and faced off the bottom but have not taken quite enough off. I don`t know how I`ve done it as...

I`ve spent two nights on this now – and things are going slow…but what is the rush I guess!! I was hoping to bolt everything down (drill and tap) and then get the cylinder machined. It has taken me 2 nights to make...

I had advice off others on the internet that my methods looked secure but that I needed steel clamps as the brass ones were no use bending as they were. Once they were made I started boring: boring the standard: After testing...