Model Engine Maker
The Showcase => Engines => Topic started by: legonutter23 on July 09, 2014, 09:40:45 AM
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so its time... judgement is upon me i must show you my first and admitdly feble atempt at a engine :noidea:
its a simple osolating engine thats made from bar stock mostly aluminum.
it took me about a week of fiddling with leaking cylinder heads and sticky pistons to make her run but its there now!!!!
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Welcome aboard! Looks like nice work on that engine. I have yet to finish my first design, and it certainly won't be as nice looking as that! What sort of machine tools are you using?
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thanks
i made this one on a emco lathe of un known origin and machines like its made of toffie and a emco lathe that has a head bearings that feel like candyfloss wraped in bacon if you take more that a millimeeter cut! i cant wait till my dmg is fixed!!
rant over haha
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That looks like an excellent first build :ThumbsUp: The first engine always takes time to get to run (and also the second, third.... :shrug: but the time does get shorter ;))
Emco s are very good machines made in Germany or Austria. 1mm is a big cut on a hobby machine and it might have not been helped if you had a tool that had been ground for cutting other materials. But the finish looks excellent.
So do we get a video of it running?
Jo
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they arnt hobby machines hah they have been sold as "production machines" but hey for a 4 foot bed they arnt bad
i just prefer my regular 8 footer thats being re wired at the moment.
i will try up load one im not sure how it will go tho haha
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0zT5UDRxg let's see if that works!!
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Looks good. First builds are really exciting when you get them to run. Even if it takes some fiddling. Keep up the good work.
Ron
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Thanks
Here as today's efforts in the former of a valve body and the start of a top plate
And some odds and ends from past projects
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Nice looking parts.
A friendly tip from an old computer guy who once used a 300 Baud modem :old: : Some people may not have a high speed connection (and mine seems slow, probably recovering from severe thunderstorms) and a large file like this (3 MB) may take a long time to load (it took about a minute on FIOS). It is considered good practice to resize images to about 800x600 (about 200 kB) so they pop up quickly, and resolution is still quite adequate. ;)
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No problem notes taken
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Very nice job for a first engine.