Lane's Replicas

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	My engine display area in my home.
	Large Witte #1 of 2 that my buddy and I built.  We used a Philip Duclos design but enlarged it by 1.5.  I redesigned the side head and valve chamber along with the linkage.
	Small Witte-Philip Duclos design published in HMS-November 1987.  This was my first engine to ever build.  I would built all the parts in the article in 1 or 2 weekends and then have to wait 2 months for the next article.  In the meantime I found a 1913 2 1/2 HP Witte to restore so instead of waiting on the next article to come out in HMS, I started scaling some parts and finished my engine about 2 months before the last article was published.  I added a homemade generator to light a 1 1/2 volt bulb.  I had trouble getting the engine to run so I wrote a letter to Philip Duclos by way of HMS.  He wrote back and we started writing back and forth.  He sent me photos of many of his engines and I started designing and building engines from these photos.  I built mine larger than he built his.
	Just a bunch of simple steam engines I built when I first got in this hobby in the mid 1970's.
	Hot air engine designed by Jerry Howell that he calls a "Victorian Hot Air Engine".  Machined entirely from billet aluminum and polished.
	Hot Air Fan from the Steam & Sterling book.  The fan works great and I have actually used it from time to time when we lost power due to thunderstorms (it gets pretty warm here in the south without air conditioning).
	Saw for sawing wood with gas engines
	Small equipment built for engines to power.
	Replica Cannons
	Olds Engine built from Paul Breisch casting kit in 1990.  This is a really good running engine.
	1/3 scale of 5 HP Galloway built from a casting kit from Richard Shelley.  Really a nice kit and runs just like the real engine.
	A Philip Duclos design 6 Cycle.  He sent me some  6 photos prior to having any drawings available.  I designed and built this engine from the photos only.  I build all his engines larger than he designed when working from only the photos.
	I designed and built this from 4 photos Philip Duclos sent me. He called it his "Odd Ball Engine" and was designed to be a 6 cycle (I built it as a 4 cycle).  About the time that I completed the engine his article came out in Home Shop Machinist with the drawings.  What was really interesting was that I designed and built the parts I could not see in the photos (even using a magnifying glass) the same as he did in the article.
	Another Philip Duclos engine called the "Upside Down" that I built from photos only.
	This is another Philip Duclos engine that he sent me photos ahead of the HMS article but did not tell me about the "gearless" mechanism.  By the time the article appeared, he had passed away so I sat down and designed my version using his idea on a gearless mechanism to operate the exhaust valve.  I also incorporated ideas he had used on many of his other designs in memory of him.  The engine was finished in November 1995.
	This is a Paul Breisch casting of an Associated Air Cooled Hired Man.  A friend wanted to build and engine and I tried to help him but he was unable to do the mill work.  He gave it to me unfinished and I finally completed it several years later.
	Perkins Windmill Co. "Model B" Built in January 1991 from a Debolt Machine casting kit.
	Plunket Jr. 1/2 Scale designed by Jerry Howell and built from billet stock.  The cylinder was made of brass with a cast iron sleeve....about 6 to 8 pieces silver soldered together.  The base was supposed to be brass silver soldered together but that was too much trouble so I machined it from a solid block of aluminum....30 hours of machining.  It has a throddling carburetor, gear driven water pump, and a radiator with a fan.  This is not really a Hit & Miss engine.  It was completed in February 2001.
	This is the 2nd engine I ever built.  A Paul Breisch casting kit of an Associated Hired Man Engine.  I will never forget that it started on the 3rd spin of the flywheel and has run great ever since.
	I call this engine "Metal in Motion".  It is the only Philip Duclos engine that I built following his plans completely.  Made from aluminum and stainless steel.  There are no rings on the piston and no lubrication other than oil mixed in the gas.  Also, no gears to operate the exhaust valve.  A good running engine.

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