Hello all,
Greetings from QLD Australia! I've been lurking around in the background for a while and have plucked up the courage to post some pictures of my first engine build. The design has been heavily influenced by a member here, Mr Cfellows. I wish to thank him personally for the inspiration.
I started this as a little side project to keep me from getting bored with my main project - a motorbike powered offroad car. I'm not a machinist by trade, so I decided to design something nice and simple to start.
Some basic details....
Bore & stoke - 20mm
Materials: Lots!. Carbon steel frame. 431SS Flywheel, Phosphor bronze bearings and piston, auminium conrod, 316SS Crank. Basically whatever I could find in the scrap-bin at work.
It runs fairly well, though it can be a little hard on the slide valve return spring.
I was al little slack with the pictures and did not take many during the machining process. I guess I wasn't sure if it was going to work. Anyway, here are the ones I have......
Greetings from QLD Australia! I've been lurking around in the background for a while and have plucked up the courage to post some pictures of my first engine build. The design has been heavily influenced by a member here, Mr Cfellows. I wish to thank him personally for the inspiration.
I started this as a little side project to keep me from getting bored with my main project - a motorbike powered offroad car. I'm not a machinist by trade, so I decided to design something nice and simple to start.
Some basic details....
Bore & stoke - 20mm
Materials: Lots!. Carbon steel frame. 431SS Flywheel, Phosphor bronze bearings and piston, auminium conrod, 316SS Crank. Basically whatever I could find in the scrap-bin at work.
It runs fairly well, though it can be a little hard on the slide valve return spring.
I was al little slack with the pictures and did not take many during the machining process. I guess I wasn't sure if it was going to work. Anyway, here are the ones I have......
