Recent content by Blacksheep

All my Elmer’s engines in a row.

Thank you Dave, believe it or not, I already downloaded that plan a couple of days ago after watching the you tube video. It’s really interesting but for the next project I’m uncertain between this twin cylinder and a beam engine.

Thank you for the support and for the replies, and again thanks to all the people who whatched this build.

Here it is! It runs, Here is the video but I’ m not entusiasthic. It doesn’t runs smoothly, there’s a little vibration at some point. I think it’s caused by the crankshaft wobbling, when I press fitted the two pieces something went wrong and I ruined it. Anyway it runs and I won’t work on...

After a few days of stop today I went back to work on the scotty and I finished all the parts of the engine. I connected it to the compressed air line and it runs. 👍🏻 Now it’s time to make a little polishing work and prepare it for the camera.

Wow Joahn, it looks really good, thanks for sharing. Nice polishing work! Mine it’s almost finished, I have just to machine the yoke. Here some pics of the piston and bushing being machined.

The build continues slowly but costantly. I made a couple of new little pieces. Since I had little time to spend in the workshop I decided to machine the simplest parts like the piston rod, the bracket and the tiny slide block. I prepared also the blank piece of brass for the piston and I’ ve...

I went back to the workshop today and I made some steps forward: once finished the frame and the cylinder I made the flywheel and the crankshaft from a bar stock of Ss.

Good start. I’ll be watching. 👍🏻

Today I worked on the frame to get the final shape and squared the cylinder. I machined the brass bolts to adapt them to the shape I need. Here you can see the difference. I don’t have an edge finder and in the previous project I got the right spacing between the holes but they were...

New year new project. I started to build the Elmer’s Verburg #8 scotty. It’s very similar to the other two engines that I’ve built but this time I will approach the project in a different way due to some little issues I had in the other projects. This time I started from the wooden display...

Best wishes for an happy new year to everyone from Italy.

What a beauty! Congratulations

Thanks, for the next project I was thinking to another Elmer’s engine, very similar to this one: the scotty #8. I know it’s a little bit boring for you to watch that kind of little simple engines but I love the Elmer’s engines precisely because they’re simple, not too much material and tools are...

I declare my project competed! Here’s the engine running. Thanks again to all the people who watched and enjoyed this build. Here are some pics of the completed engine.