My A J Reeves Bolton Triple Expansion Engine

[crueby]

What a beautiful engine! Something to be well proud of!   
Chris

[cnr6400]

Looks fantastic! a fine job!   

[Kim]

Great looking engine!  You should feel really good about that one, it looks great! 

Kim

[Admiral_dk]

Great result - looks amazing 

I got to ask : How big was the 'Original' ?    (appears to be 3-4 times higher than a person, for the controlls to make sense) 

Per       

[Vixen]

Hello John

That's a fine looking engine you have built.

Mike

[gbritnell]

Excellent build! It runs very smoothly.

[simplyloco]

Great result - looks amazing 

I got to ask : How big was the 'Original' ?    (appears to be 3-4 times higher than a person, for the controlls to make sense) 

Per       

Difficult to say: a typical sized one about 10 feet high would fit in a ferry boat, but there were two just like this one - with an extra LP cylinder- in the Titanic!

[steam guy willy]

Hi ,I am continuing with my engine and I was wondering how long it took to bore out the cylinders and what speed and feed with the boring head did you use ?? mineas there is quite a lot of metal to remove  is taking a long time ?!!!
Willy

[simplyloco]

Hi ,I am continuing with my engine and I was wondering how long it took to bore out the cylinders and what speed and feed with the boring head did you use ?? mineas there is quite a lot of metal to remove  is taking a long time ?!!!
Willy

Hi Willy, good to hear that you are making progress. If you have a look at my early posts you will see that I gave up with the boring head and reverted to the old fashioned faceplate method.  Much more robust and to my liking! Unfortunately I have no recollection of speeds, feeds and time taken, as after 60 years with the tools I just speed things up until it feels right!
Best wishes.
John