The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-01
BUILDING LITTLE ENGINES.
Attractive work for People, Wong and
Old, Mechanically Inclined.

You can buy a one-horse power steam
engine with an upright tubular boiler.
all complete said = dealer In machines and
tools, for so. Here Il one. = little hori-
zontal one horsepower engine. mounted
as YOU SEQ. on a table. or stand. like the
support OF a lathe. Tie Az wheel Ii pretty
nearly a foot In diameter. A little engins
like that might lie used In a small shop, 70
run a lathe or two. or IL might he used 20
run sewing machines. IL woul he used
perhaps, 10y an experimental. IN supply
such power ~ he needed in his expert
ments, or, Il might be. by an amateur. In
q ANAL private machine shop OF his own.
Smaller steam engines still are made:
engines OF ~three-uuarters. 81 one-hRlf. and
Of oue-quarter horse power; which. With
like fttings. would cost about the same as
a one-horse power engine. for In these very
little engines IL Is not 50 much tho material
as /. Il the work on them that costs: and
A. costs about the same to build one as
another
but speaking OF little engines. aside from
tho.e that are sold In running condition
for purposes Of utility. We sell mssv small
engines In parts. in tho rough TO people
who finish aud set them up. for the pleasure
and Improvement they Ard In thus build
ing an engine themselves. Parts thus sold
are furnished for engines ranging from one
horse power down In n sixteenth horse
power.
also he bought finished. Of the very smaller
engines, indeed. so'pc OF the PARTS can bs
bought finished only. as for example. tho
cylinder and steam chest. The amateur Who
buys these L. not likely To nave an equip-
ment that would cnabl. him 70 hnish those
parts satisfactorily
I'm the engines OF what.,v-r size, while
some buyers take all the parts and finish
them all themselves. others buy come parts
In the rough and some finished; they buy.
for instance, cy linder- borrd, and - On.
they can. a. ! said. buy anv part finished,
and any part in the rough: tho cos' Of course
der ending considerably on TIE number Of
parts they buy tnl,Hed
The parts OF a o~ne-horse engine, all In
the rough, can be bought for ~. the parts
Of tho very much smaller one-sixteenth
horse power engine cost more, on account
Of tho higher cost Of the finished parts
These engine parts are bought by-a
good many different people, boys and
men with various offsets In view, but
all alike In their Interest," in mechanical
things. They are bought by boys and
Young men who arr preparing Tor or pur-
suing technic siud,e-. by skilled nechan-
ic- who want To e'lirge their knowledge
by practical construction and observation:
by Amateurs who delight IN handling tools
and who own fine tools and handle them
skilfullv
"Some ~ these people might maintain =
a cnmpl.ie little nachine shou OF their
own ard With power from such M engine
"A. showed YOU With the boiler. he able
TO turn ou, one 81 thrsa engines complete
and st u up aud --t u going
Resides tho parts for ordinary engines
| Of various siRas W. sel Riso engine usrts Tor
lit,le marine engine. 81 various siHss and
for both paddle wheel and Tot screw steam
.r- The little marin. engines are Sid
Ike the others With all the parts In th.
roslsh OF all fnishsd ~ sntne parts rough
IN fact. iust ~ anybody wants TO buy
| them. leaving NOR ~ l-- WORK ~ - lone
upon them Ia completing them ard sitting
I them up
And ". ~p paddle ~he-ls 10 go With
sideN hs.l -ngins~. and -crvN pruTsllers
80 e. With engines II that kind, With equip
rn~nt Cumplrto - that the build~rs - such
an engine van make his cngine actually
drive he hoa' in which he iukialls It.
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