Half Scale 1/4HP A J Weed Engine

[Jasonb]

I decided not to go with my usual light colours on this one but don't worry I've not bought any dark green or maroon paint!

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

As the old original engine that I based mine on had quite a nice patina I decided to see how close to that I could get and am quite pleased with it. The colours are actually a little bit darker than they have come out in the photos. There are a couple it parts where the paint could have done with a little more blending out but on the whole it is the sort of look I was after.

Runs reasonably well too, when I test ran it before painting it was wanting to levitate a bit at high speed which is why I have it running for quite a while in the video as I was expecting it to start moving about but seems my final tweaking of timing smoothed things out.

[Sanjay F]

Woah, that looks amazing, I like it ......a lot!!! The whole engine is the business, from the '3d casting part', the shaped base and the copper lagging....everything!

Congratulations, another top class effort and result 

[crueby]

Beauty! Running great!   

[Michael S.]

Nice looking!
The engine could have been sitting in someone's basement for 10 years.

Michael   

[Krypto]

If I had seen that engine on a table at the model show never in a million years would I have thought most of it was CNC'ed and it even used a metal printed part! Fantastic job on the patina!  That's something I never would have thought of doing.

Really enjoyed this build series, learned quite a bit.

[kuhncw]

Very well done, Jason.

Thanks for the detailed build thread.

Chuck

[Admiral_dk]

Great result + interesting patina - up to your usual high standard Jason 

Per