As one of my crazy goals for my O gauge layout, I have decided to try and engineer and actually make a real working steam engine.
Figuring this out I take it that I will need a tank to hold water. Then have an electrical water heating element in it like in a hot water tank. From there the pressure would have to activate a piston, and excess pressure would have to escape through a whistle. The electrical current would have to control how much heat the heating element puts out.
Anyhow does anyone have any advice on this or has done this? I am good at machining metal and experimenting with things. I figure that it would be cool to have an actual steam engine actually run off of steam.
Figuring this out I take it that I will need a tank to hold water. Then have an electrical water heating element in it like in a hot water tank. From there the pressure would have to activate a piston, and excess pressure would have to escape through a whistle. The electrical current would have to control how much heat the heating element puts out.
Anyhow does anyone have any advice on this or has done this? I am good at machining metal and experimenting with things. I figure that it would be cool to have an actual steam engine actually run off of steam.