Wood Steam Engine

[ezdays]

You are only on day 3 so you are making rapid progress Don! BTW mine never did work very well but yours will probably run like a Swiss watch!

Thank you good sir, but it seems more like week three, 24/7, to me. I have serious doubts that this will ever run, the spring is held in place by a 1/16" bend and if it comes loose, there's no way of getting back without complete disassembly. Secondly, the gears are so rickety that it may be impossible to get them all to line up at the same time. Besides all that, I may wind up using it as a target before I get to step 20.
 

On top of that, there are errors in the assembly drawings. I thought that group 03 was assembled backwards, well, it wasn't, the drawing in one other step is wrong, and no, the gears in group 02 do not mesh with group 03 as shown in another drawing.