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Default Engine fabrication from basic hand tools

Here are a couple of steam engines which have been made with basic
hand tools:

http://www.royuk.co.uk/steam_engines.htm

Where is Abrasha when we need him? ;-)

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Default Engine fabrication from basic hand tools

MikeMandaville wrote:

Here are a couple of steam engines which have been made with basic
hand tools:


Nice looking engines. Considering the tools and material available.
They remind me of the toys that children are building in poor countries. And
I do not mean that negative!
The use-what-you-can-find-and-the-rest-is-your-ingenuity-look makes them
attractive.


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