Movies

Updated 6 November 2003

Update: The engine is steamed for the first time!!!

If you click on these pictures your browser should open up your media player and you will see a movie of the engine turning over from different aspects.

If the clips won't play see the bottom of this page


Side view 290rpm	Top View 290rpm	Oblique view 185rpm
Oesa July 2000	Valve Gear mockup in the ahead position Note the movement of the regulator arm This clip will take about 4 minutes to load on a 56k modem	LP Valve gear as modified Note the lack of movement in the regulator arm! 300 rpm This clip is large and will take longer than 10 minutes to load on a 56k modem, less than 2 minutes on ADSL/ cable
Progress at 24 December 2002 300 rpm This clip is large and will take longer than 10 minutes to load on a 56k modem, less than 2 minutes on ADSL/ cable	Running on air 23 October 2003 This clip will take about a minute to download on ADSL/ cable	Running on Steam for the first time 4 November 2003 This clip will take about a minute to download on ADSL/ cable

The engine is driven by an electric motor under the bench in all but the last two clips.

In the second last clip the engine is running on air supplied by a 12cfm compressor. It does not run well as the cutoff necessary for efficient steam consumption is about 65% of the stroke. When running on steam the continued expansion of the steam continues to drive the piston down but on air that is that.

The first 4 videos are poor quality due to the size of the file necessary for high quality images and there is no sound as the captured sound from the tape video player is very faint.

The last 4 video clips were taken on a digital camera, are in QuickTime format and have sound!

They will take a while to download on a dial-up connection

The clips are short but you can make them last longer saving them and "looping" them in your media player

You will need RealOne Player to play the first 3 clips or maybe Quicktime for the last

Click here to download