Your first Engine

[Brass_Machine]

Roger B's POST got me thinking. Let's start a thread where you can show your first engine.

I am going to try to find pictures/video of mine. Until then, let's see the 1st engine you made.

Eric

[Roger B]

Unfortunately I don't have pictures of what was my real first engine. It was an oscillating cylinder steam engine made from a car brake cylinder with just my fathers electric drill in a drill stand. It was fed from my mothers pressure cooker and was coupled with a belt to a bicycle dynamo. With a good 2 kW heating the pressure cooker it would light a small touch bulb. 0.001% efficiency 

[spuddevans]

This was mine, Elmers #25



Tim

[sshire]

Stan Bray design. "Slim Sam."
Built about 2 1/2 years ago. I had no lathe so it was all done on a mill.

[stevehuckss396]

First one I ever started.






First one I ever finished and ran.

[Dave Otto]

I thought we had done this before; or maybe it was on the other site.

Mine was a Rudy vertical steam engine; I used a Stuart flywheel because I thought it would look better than the solid one. Also left off the slip eccentric reverse; I think that is what it is called.

Never got around to finishing it; still needs proper hardware, paint, and a decent base.
I made this at work during lunch time and after work. This was before I had any machines at home; so that would put it in the early to mid eighties.

Dave

[chucketn]

My first was the EZbuild. With the exception of the brass air tube and fasteners, it was built entirely from metal scraps found in my late fathers work bench. I discovered the metal bits while clearing the folks house to  sell it about 10 years after Dad passed away. I still have the work bench I found the metal in, and Dad's Kennedy tool chest.
Chuck

[steamer]

First engine was a Midwest wobbler.  It wasn't even mine, but it had been screwed up, so I made a new cylinder and piston rod for it....Ran Great...never saw it again.

My second was a 3/4 x 1 self designed single with a piston valve...it ran....but not much to look at...I still have it on the top shelf of the shop...built it about 20 years ago...but no electronic pictures handy...

The third was my launch engine......You guys have seen that...but I've attached it below

[Don1966]

My first Engine and venture into machining was in 2010 and I bought the plans from Little Machine Shop. The engine was built and design by Bill Reichart and call the Pip Squeak Steam engine. It was a fun project and a thrill when I saw it running. I quess when we see that first one run, we are hooked and the addiction begins.
This is my first little engine. 


Don

[Jo]

I thought we had done this before;

Dave

Yes we did: http://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/topic,2398.msg39970.html#msg39970

Jo

[b.lindsey]

Oh good...now I can go back and not have to remember again what I had to remember then   Yep, just as I thought...Elmer's Tiny, and that followed by Tiny Powers 10H casting kit, very similar to the Stuart 10H...gave that one to my Dad though so no picture of it.

Bill

[Martin Cottrell]

Here is a video of my first engine and boiler working together.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKauGmsBogU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKauGmsBogU</a>