Customer Reviews:
 Misleading Title May 7, 2003
maelfactor (Jacksonville, NC United States)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
The title leads you to believe that it is a collection of steam and stirling engine plan. But there is only one stirling engine plan. I was hoping for equal (or close to it) sets of plans for both. The info in the book is interesting just not what I was primarily interested in.
Misleading title, disappointing content February 1, 2003
David Rysdam (Milford, NH United States)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
First and most damning, there is only one (of 16 total designs) Stirling engine design in this book. Second, from things I had read on the Internet, I had gathered that the designs ran from "build with hand tools" to "need a home machine shop". In reality there's no spectrum here. There is one design (for a steam engine) that can be built with hand tools, everything else needs machine tools.If machine-tooled steam engines is your thing, I'm sure this book is great. For someone wanting to build hand-tooled (possibly building up to machine-tooled) Stirlings, it's useless.
 A real treasure May 5, 2002
Jason E. Brown (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is beautiful. Even if you never build any of the projects in it, you will enjoy reading about steam engines that can be built by a hobbyist. Lovely pictures compliment amusing anecdotes, alongside functional layouts complete with bills of materials, and step by step instruction. The only thing I would have enjoyed more than buying this book would have been to have received it as a gift.
Good model book. September 7, 2000
MIKE KREMIN (Oregon City, Oregon USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Bought this book twice and am looking for it again. Very simple engines for hobby. I'm ready for the launch. You will get into steam or get burned, Ha ha. You'll need to do some home work to advance, it is a very rewarding hobby.Most excelent starter book.
 Pretty good March 27, 2000
G. Dekeyser (Illinios)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book is pretty good..it shows how to make the engines very well the only problem i could find was that they show making them but when you actually try to do it...its a lot hard than it seemed in the book... i think part of the problem if finding the parts to build it....i still think it was worth the read though
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