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Had a delivery today from 'The Engineers Emporium' in the form of castings for the 1/2 scale Economy hit and miss engine.
I did not realise until I phoned them to order that they do this engine in either aluminium castings or all cast iron. I went for the all cast iron set. Adrian at the EE explained to me that they were short of the CI casting for the hopper for a few weeks as they are waiting for a delivery from the foundry but could have that casting in aluminium if I wanted. I asked him to send what he had as it will be a while before I get to the hopper and to send the CI one on later to me. I should add that they do many fold the number of castings for engines and general items that they do not have upon their website.
Castings seem on inspection to be of very good quality with nice edges and corners, true to shape and casting halves very well positioned. Initial impressions are although I am yet to start to cut them is that they are of better quality than the ones I have had in Stuart kits - Bit of surface corrosion on them when they have been in storage but that is of no matter.
Bound booklet of drawings is very impressive with each part having it's own page along with exploded drawings. (probably 100 ish sides in total) The drawings are in metric. Personally I prefer to work in imperial. ........ But that's just me.
It's a bit of a lump as you can see and I may have to get a bit creative when machining some of the castings. The supplied raw castings so far weigh 36kg (delivery guy did not seem happy) which is about 80lbs. 13kg of this is the flywheels. Added to this needs to be the weight of the hopper, conrod and crank. Then minus a bit from machining swarf. So will probably weigh about the same as the similar sized Galloway engine (90lbs according to Galloways specs)
You got a set of these Jo to fondle Jo.?
Nick
