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Yesterday's progress was a bit less than I'd expected but the casting has more fiddly bits than it appears from a quick glance. After...

Any links to Model Engineer that have not been updated since the change in storage and software about 5 months ago are likely to be...

Hopefully a moderator can move your other posts to this thread, or you could copy and paste. Your three M3 screws should be fine...

Bob brings up a good point about altering the base. When you are making your own either from solid or your own patterns it is a good...

You can avoid "coping down" if you make a "follow board" This would be dead easy with 3D printing and CAD but more work if using...

If you want to do the bending thing in future then either use veneers or thin "aeroply", glue them together and then clamp in your jig...

You don't actually need the classic taper in- taper out shape. The end of the gas inlet protruding into the air inlet will reduce the...

That's one of the valve cage holes not the plug hole. I've taller rocker posts on M3 screws with a smaller area to the base of the post...

Pat, a model engine with a float chamber would typically have the fuel tank slightly above the carb so there is a constant feed into the...

And that ability of Nylon to absorb moisture that Nerd mentions could cause tracking of your distributor cap. That is why Delrin is...

In 45 years of making MODEL engines I have not seen a carb design that has more than one fuel needle, at best you may get an air bleed...

I should have been working on the crankshaft but I had to do some casting to do for my partners grandson so I decided to try my intended...

The problem with even the smallest weed eater carb is they are quite large and complex to recreate particularly if scaled down The rev...

You could use a couple of 1-2-3 blocks as "angle plates" clamp one each end vertically to the mill table or even bolt right through. You...

You could put a note that holes are symmetrical about the ctr line and that would do away with the other 0.281". Often a note is not...