Hello all Hope all of you are having success with your projects to date. Like most of you my greatest challenge seems to be time...........A passion for...
Hi Marty Looking forwards to seeing your pictures. I have been working on the number 5 also and have most of the larger parts done. Got a little tired of...
Marty: Well.... I was about to go to the site and feature one of your engine photos on the front page of the site, but I see Gene beat me to it <G>. That's a...
Hi All I made a new folder in the picture group and called it Not-HasBrouck. It will be a good place to put you other work. I uploaded two pictures of a...
Folks: Just re-reading some of the posts and did not realize before that Marty's engine was X2 Scale..... Wow!, that's double cool! would like a commentry on...
... Cletus your post said Engine #5. The #5 I am building is full scale. If you were refering to #7 on the home page it runs great.Runs as low as 3 psi of air...
Marty, I uploaded the plans for the Elmers # 1 and #10 in the file section. Both are built using the same cly. and valve. The picture on the first page of #1...
Hello All I was able to get quite a bit of work done on my #5 over the last week. Placed a couple of pictures in my Engines folder. got it running on air...
Folks: This group was started in January and to date we record a membership of seventy persons. Not too bad at all, I would think and just browsing the photos...
Awfully quiet around here. Are you people being naughty or nice? :D Cheers, Cletus BTW trying out this new Beta Rich Text thing. [Non-text portions of this...
Naughty, I guess. I put the piston ring in my #10 for the first time last night, and ran it pretty hard and put a load on it. After about 10-15 minutes it...
Folks So far, 5 new memberships within the last 7-days..... we're growing! Just would like to express a warm welcome to the new members. We look forward to...
Dear moderator and members of this group; I found this yahoo group while looking for information about the Hasbrouck engines on the internet. for some time I...
Hi Eckart The best way I know to answer your question is to send you to a link that I have. It will answer your questions about boilers and other things. As...
Hi I'm new to the group. I live in Scotland UK. I'm "trying" to build Engine No1, I'm really glad to have found this site. It's already given me a few good...
The traditional method of estimating horse power is "PLAN" Where P is pressure in lbs/sq foot. L is length of stroke in feet, A is the area of the piston in...
I notice that most slide valves are made by a cross shaped cutout with a threaded rod into an elongated nut held captive in the lateral cutout. What advantage...
Hi Jeff, Sorry, I don't have an answer to your question but I did ask myself the the same thing an couple hours ago. I had just completed the parts (for eng...
Jeff. The reason is that the slide valve has to float. When you put presser in the valve body it will keep the valve in contact with the cyl. block. It is the...