Recent content by Boot

Thanks Sleddog. I had trouble downloading.:wall: All my fault. I had to download a temp. WinZip to accomplish it. Then I saved it to my Documents and printed the blue prints out from there. 51 pages. I hope I didn't miss any. My computer scattered them around in Documents and after finding...

I've searched all over for these plans. Does anyone have a link to them so I can download a copy of them. Or do I have to buy them from Brian. I'm looking for a set of plans to finish off the winter. I just finished a Farm Boy from plans I purchased from Howell's company. Thank you, Merry...

Thanks gentlemen , but I got it working again. Enginemaker told me to jumper across 2 of the leads and it started up again. It must of reset something in the electronic circut. Whatever it does it works.

How can I test my Hall effect sensor to see if it's alright or broken? My diode light is not lighting. Boot

Thanks Pete: I'll have a look at them in the morning. I did use too course stuff the first time. Now I have a mostly liquid stuff and you're right even that seems pretty course. I'll let you know tomorrow. I hope I don't have to use brasso because I don't have any. Maybe tooth paste will do...

Hello Geartooth: It looks like you did a great job of machining you engine. You're not far away from firing it up. I hope you have done a better job of sealing the valves than I have. I'm getting to wits end on it. I wouldn't think that it would be that critical ,but it must be. Or I...

I don't know if I got it right,but here's a picture of engine. Jim I don't know where your email went but I will pull the head off and redo the valves again. I'm going to try putting a rubber tube on the end of valve and using that to grind them in. I thought someone else would have an idea...

I'm having trouble getting the engine to run. It seems as though I'm losing compression back through the intake valve. I have tried seating it with course grinding compound and also real fine compound. Neither has worked. What else could be defeating my efforts. I have noticed if I run the...

I made the Super Stirling by Jerry Howell and I used a long HSS tool to cut the fins. They are .041 wide spaced at .093 apart cut into a square piece of 1.5 aluminum approx .220 deep on a side. It's a long skinny tool ,but it worked. I think I hand ground it from a 1/4"sq. Circle C HSS tool...

I save myself trouble by buying Husqvarna oil in small plastic bottles pre-measured for 1 gallon of gas at 1:50 ratio formula . They also have generic for the same thing in 1:40 ratio for other saws. Buy up the bottles and save to refill with your own oil . They are cheap at Lowe's and Home...

Thanks again : Jim . I'll contact you on a PM

I'd like to know the thickness of the Delrin bracket? I'm guessing it's about .250 . This is the one for "not using spark saver". Also the coil I got from Howell only has one terminal on it besides the spark plug wire. The TIM 6 has a connector for a plus and a minus. How do I connect it to...

I just finished using tiny drills including a number #76 drill on my Jerry Howell Farmboy Engine. I used a Starrett pin vise to hold my drill in a Jacobs chuck. It ran close to being 0.0 on my indicator for T.I.R. on my HF milling machine. It was never any trouble to use the pin vise. I...

I had the misfortune of breaking a 2/56 tap in cast iron flywheel on my Farmboy engine. Low and behold I tried an old trick I learned in my old place of employment. Get hold of an American made official #1 dart. I picked at the little tap and to my surprise I was able to back it out. I don't...

Hello Jim: I can't believe and don't know how you ever finished it in such a short period of time. You must own a machine shop fully stocked with all the different materials. Most of my time has been spent tracking down the different sizes and types of materials. You did a fabulous job on...