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An absolute work of art

total awesomeness!

You're a very brave man Terry! LOL! It's going to be a treat to see how you manage this insane challenge!

I recently found a thread on an engine building forum posted by a someone in the US who rebuilds Merlin engines and he posted some very interesting photos and accounts of how exacting and precise the tolerances are in these engines. He detailed the procedures for reconditioning the fork and...

Awesome stuff Terry Only 2 valves per cylinder on the scale model then? Well! It'll save you machining an extra 24 valves and associated components!

Mindblowing!

This is better than any TV show!

This is going to be 2 years of fascinating reading!

Splendid That's better!

Hi Terry I'm attempting to model an 18 cylinder radial in Pro/Engineer, similiar to Solidworks. This is just a bit of fun. I don't have the skills to even begin being able to produce one. As you can see from the attached images, my connecting rods are too short and approaching TDC, the...

R-4360 Terry! You know it makes sense! ;D

Awesome! That's saved me some serious head scratching! Thanks Terry

Hi Terry. Well.......all of them really! I guessed they were 14 1/2 gears from the shape of the teeth I was looking at the teeth you cut into your crankshaft and was wondering what size the gear is. I assumed 16 teeth on a 0.5" PCD since this a standard regularly available gear size (32...

Terry What is the spur gear spec used in this engine? Are they metric spur gears or imperial. I guessing they are about metric module = 1 but the imperial sizes 24 and 32 DP both seem to give the wrong diameters

I'm sure it's far less important on a scale motor with much smaller inertial forces but I'd like to purchase a set of Hodgson's drawings and to see what he specifies, (and much else besides!!). The R-4360 is ever more bizarre, having master rods in A7, B4, C4 and D1 and to complicate things...