Well Gary you are correct. I did sell my engine to Dr Hormuth along with the plans. And you are correct that they are construction plans for the entire engine. There are no detailed plans of the osmotor itself. Just a drawing or two showing where it fits on the frame.
The only other person I know who has modified an osmotor is Werner Jeggli, [EMAIL PROTECTED] , who lives in Switzerland. Werner has taken the osmotor to strastopheric levels in his KONDENSATOR LOK 2001. This engine appeared in SitG back in 2000. Issue #55 I believe. Werner continues to refine his engine and the latest installment was just published in the G1MRA newsletter. Cheers Clark ============================================ Clark B Lord - Las Vegas, Nevada USA Las Vegas Live Steamers - Gauge 1 live steam Treasurer, Las Vegas Garden Railway Society Member, Steam Events LLC Gary wrote: > Looking over the "plans" I have reveals the plans are not useful for > machining and only provide a rudimentary idea of what the motor looks like. > It seems to me that either someone needs to contact Clark Lord and find out > where Dr. Carol Hormuth can be contacted (mind you the "plans" may be the > same as I have (simply assembly plans, not machinist, drafting, or > engineering drawings). Another idea might be to disassemble and engine and > scan each part full sized front and back and side to give people a better > idea of how the valves, motor, and gears were designed. > > From: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14092.html > " never liked the odor of the 30w motor oil and I tended to not use the > smoke system except as a one or two lap demonstration. I sold the > engine to Dr. Carol Hormuth several years ago. He had one without the > smoke system and bought mine so he could have one with a smoke system. > > I no longer have any plans as I gave them to Dr. Hormuth when I sold the > engine. > > The main thing to remember is that the smoke stack is sealed from the > flue gases and only the engine exhaust (and steam/oily mixture) goes up > the stack. > > Cheers > Clark > ============================================ > Clark B Lord - Las Vegas, Nevada USA > Las Vegas Live Steamers - Gauge 1 live steam" > > Again, my apologies for faulty memory. The darn assembly instructions are on > 11 x 17 paper leading at least my memory to think "big means real plans". > If anyone wants me to get these scanned full sized or to scan only the crude > drawings I can do that. > ~ Gary - Steaming over Terror Trestle > http://community.webshots.com/user/raltzenthor > http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy/ > > _______________________________________________ > SSLiveSteam mailing list > Send messages: [email protected] > Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam > Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html > > > _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
