Ha!
Yeah, you wouldn’t even need to speak. Just sounds of your coffee maker brewing coffee in the background for two hours while you whip up another steam engine. Sounds entertaining to me!
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Hmmm …
My coffee maker is in need of cleaning so it’s pretty slow.
Still a few screws and some other tiny parts to do but this is close enough for the time being.
Let’s see if this link opens the model in the viewer.
Viewer link
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Loved looking at this with the link! and amazing to see how much effort you put into tagging every element of this model.
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Well I really enjoyed your FWW course (live) a couple of years ago, and have learned most of what I know about SU from watching your YT videos.
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Thank you sir.
Here’s a quickie little model steam engine called Gem Dandy. The flywheel is 70mm diameter.
Threaded parts left to do but everything else is finished.
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One more little one.
The frame on this one is 93 mm tall.
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Simple for you maybe 
I made that one a little more difficult by radiusing most of the edges.
BTW, this was modeled to the dimensions provided but there’s an error in them that I’ll need to fix. Can anyone else see what that error is?
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What part of that?
(That’s not it, though. 
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I don’t know but the arc radius of that grey flywheel counter weight gives me the creeps.
“Extending that arc” (=rotating the counter weight) runs into the red frame?
I would need the model or overlay the screenshot. (On the phone now)
just a guess
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Good thought but it does clear just fine.
The issue is that with the crank rotated to half way between the stroke ends, the piston was at the bottom of the cylinder with no more room to travel as the crank comes up to the top. The long link between the crank and the beam is too long. Here I’ve figured out how long it should be, corrected it, and adjusted the positions of the parts.
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This engine is called Lady Stephanie. It’s another balanced beam engine. Still a bunch of parts to make.
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Lady Stephanie ! How classy 
She’s probably ornery. 
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