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Offline michelko

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Holt 75 from Germany
« on: December 22, 2020, 03:04:45 PM »
Hi guys,
just started an new project as the title says, it is an Holt 75. It is  kind of an chimera. While i am using some castings it is alos based on plans and some is my own design.

The initial plan was building the engine from George Brittnels plan from bar stock. I purchased his set of plans but redid them in metric using a 3d CAD Program.
Some time ago i came in contact with a  fellow HMEM forum member called foketry. He was so kind to give his left over casting parts and some cores for the heads and Zylinder jackets.

So i tried to use the castings but keep the design metric.
Now i am nearly ready with the crankcase. I still have to line bore the main bearings of the crank and the middle bearing of the cam.
For this i will use a Straight bar of drill rod and mount a HSS bit in it. I just bored the Bearings at the end plates so i can use them as  guide.
Here are some pics an a short video.

Milling out the lower part of the crank case

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2020, 03:06:18 PM »
boring tje cylinder holes and taping some threads

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2020, 03:06:55 PM »
milling the end plates/bearing holders

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2020, 03:09:30 PM »
and here is my setup for boring the bearing holders and the hole for the camshaft
for that i used my beloved wohlhaupter, a realy awesome tool

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2020, 03:11:15 PM »
and here is the short video from the boring job


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4g12CtOseY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4g12CtOseY</a>

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2020, 05:57:42 PM »
You're off to a good start there  :ThumbsUp:  :ThumbsUp: One to follow along with  :wine1:
Best regards

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2020, 06:23:20 AM »
Hi Michael, I will following along too.
The bar stock plans of George Britnell and parts of the engine are available as a CAD model on my computer already.
So may be some time I will follow your route, because in my eyes also it is a remarkable engine.
« Last Edit: December 23, 2020, 08:24:51 AM by fumopuc »
Kind Regards
Achim

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2020, 02:55:54 PM »
Hi guys,
worked a little on the crankcase/sump. Unfortunately i did´t notice some irregularities on the castings and so i made a hole into the sump wall.

I think i will patch this with a smal piece aluminium jb welded in place.
I have a ac tig machine but i am a little scared because of my low to nothing experience in welding aluminium.
So i think the jb weld woill e the way.

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2021, 03:41:17 PM »
Hi Guys,
here is some update on the Holt.
I am ready with the sump. Because of the massive casting i decided to make mill out the material also from the underside.
This recomended an cover to close the sump again. I also drilled a hole from the side to connect the chambers. Here i also made a cover plate.
Next step was the main bairing halves. I left aprox 1 mm in the hole for lineboring.

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2021, 03:43:16 PM »
and some more pics

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2021, 11:21:22 AM »
Hi Guys,
the lineboring is done. I am realy happy with the result and how the boring bar worked.
I made some brass plugs to fit in the formerly bored holes at the end s of the case. these plugs had an 10H7 boring to guiede the 10mm drillrod. In the drillrod i made a 3mm hole and 90 degree to that a m3 thhread for an set screw to hold the cutter.
The cutter is ground from an broken mill schaft.
The surface of the bored holes came out realy nice , no chatter or something.

Video crankshaft
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLmn0B9Tj0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLmn0B9Tj0</a>

Video camshaft
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMugBVjrcZE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMugBVjrcZE</a>

The boring bar and the cases where setup into the lathe for boring.


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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2021, 01:43:41 PM »
Very impressive work michelko!   :ThumbsUp:  :praise2:
Stuart

Forging ahead regardless.

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2021, 08:39:19 PM »
Hello Michel

I have just watched the video - I knew how it's done, but this is the first time I really could see how well and cleanly the cutter removed the material - thank you  :ThumbsUp:

I guess that this is a homemade tool, so did you use any tricks to set the depth of the cut ?  And how accurate could you set it for the diameter you aimed for ?

Per

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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2021, 11:30:14 PM »
Hi Guys,
the lineboring is done. I am realy happy with the result and how the boring bar worked.
I made some brass plugs to fit in the formerly bored holes at the end s of the case. these plugs had an 10H7 boring to guiede the 10mm drillrod. In the drillrod i made a 3mm hole and 90 degree to that a m3 thhread for an set screw to hold the cutter.
The cutter is ground from an broken mill schaft.
The surface of the bored holes came out realy nice , no chatter or something.

Video crankshaft
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLmn0B9Tj0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLmn0B9Tj0</a>



Video camshaft
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMugBVjrcZE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMugBVjrcZE</a>

The boring bar and the cases where setup into the lathe for boring.

well done Michael  :ThumbsUp:


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Re: Holt 75 from Germany
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2021, 03:58:12 AM »
Michelko,
I am very impressed with your work on the Holt. I have heard of line boring but have never seen it in action. I have seen George run his at the NAMES show in Michigan. Look forward to seeing yours proceed.
Art
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