Recent content by coulsea

My Upshur twin uses one cam lobe for both intake valves and the other lobe for both exhaust. plans are dated 2001.

I had looked at a few plans before designing my own open crank hit and miss engine and the average seemed to be a stroke of 1.6 times the bore. if you go longer than that the con rod can foul on the bore at half stroke. some early long stoke engines look like adapted steam engines and have a...

A small amount of error really shows on a gear with small teeth. everything has some degree of error so it is best to eliminate any unnecessary source. your collet block has the potential for error mounting in the chuck, the collet to the holder, the collet to the arbour and the holder itself...

I have cast the cannon in aluminium bronze from the pattern that i posted earlier. Now i have to do the carriage.

I am going to cast a cannon in the next couple of days, I have drawn up a pattern and printed it on a 3d printer, given it a couple of coats of spray putty and a gloss top coat. the picture shows a gap between the two halves but it does go together properly. I will cast it in the same material...

I am assuming that it is aluminium bronze, it comes from wear plates on a caterpillar grader. It machines OK providing you cut with a sharp tool, it casts well with no porosity and it looks good. Best of all it is free.

I have posted some stl files in the foundry and casting section

3d printers are great for making patterns but files seem to be hard to find, so I thought that I should share mine. The smaller flywheel is from the 140 mm pattern scaled to 0.65 in the slicer program. The larger one is a 90 mm pattern at full scale, the blue patterns are lumps to provide hot...

Thanks, I have used the fellows design a few times and they work well. I tried the rupnow britnell one once when was a real beginner and made such a mess of it that i gave up, I should try again now that i have more chance of success. As for your problem, it should work with a bit of tuning, I...

What design is the carburetor?. 5/32 or 4mm should work on an engine that size but there are many factors that can affect it. enlarging the bore will reduce the effectiveness of the venturi by slowing the speed of the air passing it so the mixture screw will have to be turned out a bit or the...

I bought the dekel clone to sharpen end mills and it will do that, the best use i have found is finishing off valves. I think that we all know someone who can sharpen things and some who can't, there is an art to using most machines. I have a Drill Doctor machine for sharpening drill bits and it...

I have an ER11 collet holder with a straight 16mm shank. it is handy for holding small stuff in the lathe 3 jaw chuck and i also use it in the dekel clone. i have collets up to 10 mm for the ER11 and 10 up in ER32. the ER11 can also go in the ER32 square and hex blocks. cheap ebay from china...

is that 15 degrees down with the wheel turning clockwise or anticlockwise? just kidding, maybe, my luck would be that i would buy a grinder for a left handed lathe.

ebay au from lithuania , just had a look and no listings, maybe they are updating, it only took 10 days to get here. i looked at it for a few days and they sent me an offer for cheaper.

25mm and about 15 round, the riser is 40 high and 60 round