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Steam engines were used as the prime mover in pumping stations, locomotives, steam ships, traction engines, steam lorries and other road vehicles. They were essential to the Industrial Revolution and saw widespread commercial use driving machinery in factories and mills, although most have since been superseded by internal combustion engines and electric motors. There are those that still admire those beautiful machines from our history. These individuals enjoy building and operating models of steam engines and machines in their spare time. This is a huge collection of 4 PDF files on one CD. It covers all types of steam turbines, sure to please the model builder. Check Out The Contents Of This CD Below!
A COMPOUND STEAM TURBINE MODELERS PLAN DETAILS This is a beautiful document orginating in the late 1880's for a Compound Steam Turbine motor. It's got illustrations throughout and it's construction is fully described. The original author is quoted below on the power of this motor: "The commercial efficiency of this dynamo, after allowing for all losses, is a little over 90 per cent. In the larger sizes it rises to 94 per cent. Assuming the compound steam turbine to give a return of 70 per cent of the total mechanical energy of the steam, and the dynamos to convert 90 per cent of this into electrical output, gives a resulting efficiency of 63 per cent." Imagine this awesome engine as a scale model.... if you've got the time and skill required to convert the plans to a scale, this is your plan! If not, it'd still make a super addition to a collection of documents... or a huge project to undertake, should you decide to build it full-size. Check Out Some Screen Grabs From This Document...
BUILD A MODEL STEAM TURBINE GREAT PLANS & INSTRUCTIONS Steam turbines have come very much to the fore during recent years, especially for marine propulsion. In principle they are far simpler than cylinder engines, steam being merely directed at a suitable angle on to specially shaped vanes attached to a revolving drum and shaft. In the Parsons type of turbine the steam expands as it passes through successive rings of blades, the diameter of which rings, as well as the length and number of the blades, increases towards the exhaust end of the casing, so that the increasing velocity of the expanding steam may be taken full advantage of. The De Laval turbine includes but a single ring of vanes, against which the steam issues through nozzles so shaped as to allow the steam to expand somewhat and its molecules to be moving at enormous velocity before reaching the vanes. A De Laval wheel revolves at terrific speeds, the limit being tens of thousands of turns per minute for the smallest engines. The greatest efficiency is obtained, theoretically, when the vane velocity is half that of the steam, the latter, after passing round the curved inside surfaces of the vanes, being robbed of all its energy and speed. The turbines to be described work on the De Laval principle, which has been selected as the easier for the beginner to follow. Check Out Some Screen Grabs From This Document...
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BUILD A MODEL STEAM TURBINE SCIENTIFIC MODEL PLANS In the early 1900's steam powered toys and models were built by all sorts of people in their home workshops, garages and shops. This was an age of invention and experimentation. The plans contained in this document come from the 1900's era of mechanical growth. It details the construction of an Model Steam Turbine. The principles and practices described in this model plan will make for interesting and interactive lessons. It still has much value to the modern-day classroom, homeschool atmosphere, and most certainly the modelers workshop. Add this historical modelers plan to your digital modeling library. Check Out Some Screen Grabs From This Document...
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BUILDING A SIMPLE STEAM TURBINE MODEL ENGINE PLANS Just as hundred of other modelers before you, from Branca to the present time, have built impulse steam engines for their first models, so you would do well to follow in their footsteps and make one too. To make either of the two toy paddlewheel engines or steam turbines, as they're now called, requires only a couple of hours of work and minimal materials. The fun you'll have building and operating these simple steam turbine engines! These plans originate from the early 1900's and are very nice indeed. You'll find detailed illustrations and instructions for every part of the construction. A great project for the model engine builder and steam power fan. Check Out Some Screen Grabs From This Document...
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