Recent content by hhoult

Your engine looks great! I couldn't agree more on how helpful everyone in this forum is.

I am very much a newbie - sandpaper and buffing does wonders :-) As for my next project, I think it will be a Hit and Miss. I haven't decided on the Air Powered version that is in the download section or the Kerzel IC version.

Thanks everyone for the comments! I can't begin to tell you how much I have learned lurking on the forum. Phil - I made the flywheel out of 1/2" plate. I turned it on the lathe, including the recess. Then I used a rotary table on the mill to make the cutouts. For my first attempt I drilled the...

Hello everyone, Just finished up an Elmers 41. I want to thank everyone for all of their posts - I have gleaned a lot of information from them. Sadly I have some work stuff so there won't be much/any shop time in the next 2 or 3 months. The upside is that I will have time to figure out what I...

Navigator - It's Krylon spray paint black85vette - Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I finished my current book on the way into work this morning so I headed to the bookstore at lunch and picked it up. Really enjoying it so far, it's very insightful. I also picked up "The Steam Donkey...

Thanks for all of the comments. My son just finished reading them and he liked KustomKB's idea of the rubber hand, though he wasn't sure his teacher would appreciate it. He was surprised by the number and I think proud of the comments all of you took time to share - thank you. I included the...

For his high school senior project my son built an EZ Build engine based on plans in the download section. We had a good time working together in the garage on it. I even let him pick the music sometimes - though I set the volume. I built this same engine about a year ago so he decided to build...