Hello all, unfortunately I have been unwell for the last few weeks and this looks like it will continue into the next few weeks at least so please bear with me and I hope to return to the workshop sometime soon. Why not have a dig around the blog or visit my main website which [...]
Unfortunately no work has been done on the furnace or any other workshop items in the last few weeks, but hopefully after Christmas I will be able to resume work on all my projects. In the meantime here are a few photo’s of the work already completed when making the crucible tools.
First priorities when resuming [...]
Seal Cylinder Liners – Session 1 09-01-2009
Well a start has been made at last on the pair of Seal Engines I started this time last year! There are 8 cylinder liners to be made and they are turned from cast iron. I was soon reminded on how dirty cast iron is to work. Fortunately I [...]
I decided to upgrade my bandsaw to a larger model and importantly, one with the ability to work upright. The best model for price I could find was the Clarke CBS45MD (4½” X 6″) Metal Cutting Bandsaw from Machine Mart UK.
It has a cutting capacity of 105mm (4″) round, 100 x 150mm (4″ x 6″) [...]
The reason for buying a replacement bandsaw was to increase the capabilities for metal cutting in my home workshop. My ‘old’ Warco bandsaw was bought 3 or 4 years ago and to a budget. However, with increasing experience comes greater knowledge. My local source of metal is a scrap yard which means I have all sorts of [...]
Today saw another visit to the workshop and I continued with the task of making the 8 cast iron cylinder liners needed for the pair of Edgar T Westbury’s 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engines I am building. Now real problems were encountered and the finished sizes all came within the 1 thou (0.001″) tolerance I [...]
Today saw the completion of the turning part of making the cylinder liners. I must admit to being a little surprised at the level of consistency I achieved in making the liners. The long layoff seems to have had the benefit of increased efficiency! Long may it last but I suspect normal service will resume [...]
Well today I managed to get back out to the workshop for a couple of hours. Since the cylinder liners have now been made it was time to start on the other cylinder fittings, namely the 16 valve liners (yes I am building 2 engines).
Having looked at the plans several times and referred to Edgar [...]
On one visit to my local scrap yard I was fortunate enough pick up a large diameter piece of scrapped brass. It had one problem, which I guess is why it was put into some factories scrap skip, a large cut on part of the bar, but fortunately it had enough unaffected to match the 2 [...]
Just had a short session this morning and continued with the flywheel project for the Seal engines being built. However after getting the outside turning round and facing off I was left with 2.6315″ diameter (need 2.5″ finished size) so was pleased with progress. I don’t know what specification the brass is made to but [...]
