<HTML>Hello Bill B.
This is a good forum with a lot of good information. Read everything here that you can and use the search feature.
The other forum is;
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www.steamautomobile.com]
Read all of that too.
Join SACA and buy out their bookstore. Several of us are feverishly working on the development of a modern steam engine.
You are well into the game by having access to a machine shop. I don't but will get a prototype built and tested somehow.
How old are you and where are you from?
Welcome ----------------- Bill G.</HTML>