Description
In Fun with Engines and Other Things Rudy Kouhoupt shows us detailed plans for the Three-Cylinder Radial Engine, Piston Valve Steam Engine, Model Vertical Steam Engine, Building a Small Steam Engine, Compressed Air V-4 Engine and a Revolutionary War Cannon.
Fun with Engines contains the mechanical drawings to guide you through the building of the various engines. The drawings are clear and the descriptions are easy to understand.
If you are interested in building working steam engines, stirling engines or any other project by Rudy Kouhoupt, here is a list of titles that you may enjoy:
- Rudy’s Model Steam Tractor
- Model Stirling Engines – Plan Sets from the Past
- Working Steam Engines – Plan Sets from the Past
- Building a Small Steam Engine (DVD)
- Building a Stirling Hot Air Engine (DVD)
Spiral-bound, 90 pages, fully illustrated.
Rudy Kouhoupt was a columnist for “The Home Shop Machinist” and “Live Steam” magazines for 24 years. He also contributed articles and plans to “Popular Mechanics” magazine for more than ten. He was a consummate machinist and a superb teacher. Rudy has always been a proponent of the “Keep it Simple” method of machine and tool design and machining style. You will learn much from his approaches.
