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Yes, Clevedon will sell the standard seperately, give Jerry a call or an email. It is a much easier solution than having a maze of pipework to deal with if a seperate reversing valve is used.
http://clevedonsteam.co.uk/index.html

I have arrived at a solution for converting from single acting, single cylinderto double acting twin cylinder and it is surprisingly easy. I bought the standard and reversing valve from Jerry at Clevedon Steam, it is what is used on his Virgo engine. It was almost made for the job! It will be cut on...

I have not started the Ellie build yet, I have been reorganising my workroom and building Steve Ward's indexing unit for electronically driving my 3 inch rotary table.I have finished the indexer now so all ready to start the Ellie build proper. I am going to make the jackshaft version. I am tempted ...

Old Man Aaron wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:04 pm Welcome to the forum, Nick. Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Many thanks Adam...

I had the lot within a couple of weeks except for the boiler, which took about 4. I got two engine frame kits so I have one to play with and one to use as an 'as drawn' version. The handy thing about having a 3D printer is that I can make a mock to check porting, alignment etc up before cutting metal.

A hairdryer on hot or very careful use of a heat gun gets shot of all the hairy bits, you could try printing a temperature tower to get ideal heat setting...

There is an interesting thread and a series of you tube videos by Tony Bird regarding making the engine double acting but to self start reliably I think two cylinders will be needed...

Your workmanship is exquisite!

Hi folks. I have recently joined the forum and am about to set to with a Camden Ellie kit, the parts are nicely cut with no spatter and are accurate in dimension. I bought the boiler as well but may make another similar to the one featured in another thread with the 'staple' type heat exchanging pin...

PET-G all the way for me, stronger than PLA and just as easy to use. Great for making maching fixtures and jigs, patten making and all sorts of tooling applications. I made over a thousand face shields at the start of the pandemic and not one failure. I do not use cooling at all, with one exception,...