Umm ... yes actually. Prop all sorted. Due to falling temperatures and my workshop being unheated the use of adhesives and resins has pretty much come to a halt until the spring. So I’m now focussing on anything metallic that needs preparing. I need to fit a slip eccentric to my WW2 auxiliary engine...

Thinking ahead a bit now and on the lookout for a second hand wheel, but what overall diameter would be best for my 15 ft launch.
Many thanks as always
Ian

Brilliant, many thanks everyone. Progress on my launch is good. Just completed the double skin and am now about to fit the skeg and stern gear. Hopefully I will get this bit completed before the new year as the workshop is too cold for the glues and resins. I will then have to look at the engine ins...

Thanks for that.
I’m I’ve got some RTV hiding somewhere.
When I got the engine the cylinder head and retaining nuts were in a box of bits and I just assumed that a gasket was needed as there is the fragments of one there.
Ian

Another quick question ... what's the best material for making a gasket on a steam engine ?

It’s very likely to be a slip eccentric.
Some might disagree, but I rather like the unconventional ... that’s why we’re steamboaters after all.

I’ve been advised both ways, but the local consensus is towards a cutlass bearing and I respect their advice ... and yours to.
So a cutless bearing it’ll be.
Something like this.
Thanks

A couple of extra photos now that the engine is in my workshop.

Here’s the engine.

I just thought I’d share with you a few pictures and a bit of history of the engine I’ve just acquired for my build. It was originally an auxiliary engine in the Steam Tug “Woelwater”, built by E. J. Smit F Zoon in the Netherlands in 1928. In 1937 she was sold to Shoreham Harbour Trustees and rename...