Recent content by mikemott

I have been working on the valves I used the flywheel as a weight for lapping the valves. then parted off the valves from the stock. cleaned them up .. next on to the lifters. mike

A bit more work, Mike

Dave I don't have an answer the pictures are linked from Photobucket. they are in "my30mm" under buffalo engine, it is public. mike

I have been busy on the engine working on the water pump and associated piping. I ended up making a 6x80 tap to make a couple of unions for the piping. The small tubes were bent with some home made tube benders the tube was annealed and filled with some styrene rod bent then re heated...

Geoff, I enjoyed your video , I have had the Minnie book by L Mason for 30 years at least, it is still one of those models on my bucket list. Mike

After finishing the camshaft lobes i made some cutter for the 75DP timing gears Then set up the rotary table in the vertical position to shape the gear blanks. The quill and cutter were locked because I could only hold the cutter in my drill chuck and I will not use it for milling as it...

Your engine is one of the most inspiring builds, the firewall presentation really is as has been noted the icing on the cake. Thank you for all the work it takes to share such a complex build. Mike

I have got the pistons in and moving smoothly now. The next work has been on the camshaft, the first attempt ended in a costly mistake by grabbing the wrong handle on the mill I turned the table handle instead of the rotary table handle. I changed course and decided to use the lathe as a...

Brian I am in (sunny) Alberta 50 miles west of Edmonton on the shores of Lake Wabumun Mike

Al where I am it was -35degrees Celsius yesterday morning not as cold today only -25degrees I am just about to go out to light a fire in the workshop it will be around 0 in there this morning. I complain about our cold winters but I don't do well in the heat, your tale reminds me of that. Mike

More progress on the rod split and soldered ready to turn bored out to 1/8th parted off split ready to place in the big end hard button to act as guide when filing to final shape it fits Mike

A bit more progress on the con rods A small holding fixture to work on them was needed because I do not have an indexing fixture for the chuck. I marked the area that still needs to be removed, the bolts are temporary just for the machining. I used the lathe as a shaper for working...

the clutch is working now and I have begun work on the pistons. jig for drilling wrist pins and for machining the inside. time for Christmas stuff now. Mike

Added the clutch. Mike

I have been working and reworking the gearbox, I have made three of these now and the final one has some 48dp pinion wire for the gears getting the band clamp to work properly has also taken a fair bit of fiddling and filing. This is version number 2 of the band clamp, the lever has one...