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Mid December update of the house I am building. I rebuilt the stairway and demoed some old roof to make room for a utility room...more specifically, make room for a door to get access to the utility room. I had to modify my older Hitachi coil nail gun to work with newer coil nails. I took a little walk on the scaffolding, just in case anybody was curious about that. Winter construction isn't al...

Continuing on my post redbox project. Working with century old wood and metal roofing for wainscoting and battens for new hardyplank lap siding.

Updating outside work on this house and taking you along for a quick drive. Work through October 16, 2024, and running out of nice weather!

An update on this house the first of October. Working to get as much outside work done before winter, I am getting ready to place the exterior 2" insulation. Over that will be the house wrap. Then, Windows and finally, the hardyplank lap board siding. I'll be able to get about 2/3 of the house with the scaffoldiing where it is at. I will move the scaffolding once the exterior is completely fini...

After losing my Redbox driving job (@backroadsofcolorado ) I wanted to get back to the steam engine. However, a family member is having some big problems presently, and cannot finish building a house. The house desperately needs finishing, and I have the experience...and just recently, the time, so looks like I need to help out by restarting the house project. So a steam engine update that has ...

Quick project - did almost all of it on camera in real time. Pretty easy project and appears to be very useful. Because it plugs into the Li-ion power source, it can be moved to other sources of power and adjusted for any voltage output within this convertor's range, which looks to be from 5v to over 20vdc.Of course, depending what dc to dc converter is used, if you build one of these. I do hav...

This has been a while getting to the point where I can expect to have a successful live steam run, testing both the engine and the steam generator, and finding out if this small steam generator can provide enough power for the engine. Until now, the engine hasn't been able to operate on the generator's output. Some noise, some leaks, and some RPM's!

Added a big exhaust valve to the steam engine and I got a big increase in power and smoothness.

I bought a replacement driveshaft for my 4wd tracker, front shaft (propeller shaft is what it is technically called as but it is just a driveshaft). Even though I gave the seller my VIN so they could make sure I was getting the correct part, it was still not correct. The seller didn't even want it returned, so I had another piece of metal hanging around just taking space. I decided to try to mo...

Quick ( for me) update after the new valves, but after resetting the timing. First real steam run. I start it on compressed air and set the valves, then switch it to steam at about 5 minutes in. I end by switching back to compressed air, and try out the changed settings. I did this to see just how different steam is to compressed air. Steam is much more powerful than compressed air, and I had t...

Getting back to the engine, I decided to change the valve design from a rotary valve to a poppet type valve. This video updates where I am at and gives you a chance to see it operate. If you are a steam geek, you might like this video too. I command you to watch or face a 355 million dollar penalty. Note: a couple days after posting this video I got back to the engine and took a look at the tim...

Designing and building a steam engine from scratch...latest update covering the valve design and fabrication and the cam/timing parts. Got it operating on compressed air in this video.

I need a load for my steam generator, so I decided to make a steam engine. Going through designing and building from scratch using mostly materials on hand. Fun project!

Getting up to speed on this project. Going over some of the details and testing the system.

Little Monster bender for hard to bend tubing.

Designing and building a small boiler feed pump (for a steam generator).

50 ton jack repair update: One Ring to permanently fix them all! (finally).

Cabinet kickspace drawers project Start to Finish.

50 ton jack complete repair

jumbo guitar 2nd part binding the body

Oldtown Microbase dremel attachment intro and review

Feature length Oldtown Jumbo guitar build part 1

Aluminum xylophone build part 3: details, details.

Aluminum xylophone build part 2: Tuning

Aluminum xylophone build Part 1

DIY wood bending Form

DIY steam generator wood bending

retuning a xylophone

reusable aluminum casting mold 6