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So now what are you going to do for wheels on the cannon?

I love it when I get to repurpose something! Great job making those look good!

I was helping my dad get some things in order at his shop the other day and remembered seeing a machinist toolbox around that he had bought at an estate sale sometime ago here in town. He was a little reluctant to hand it over but being he don't have a lathe/mill or even know how to run one I...

Well I have started on a new engine! I am designing and making this one on the fly with no drawings. Liking to repurpose junk and use what's at hand this engine will be based around an old hard drive.* You can see here I have already made the con rod out of the thing that reads data off the...

Go back and read the original post he wants a clear engine so he can video the combustion process.

Matt how many clear b&s engines you ever seen?

Found this thought I wood share http://www.ebay.com/itm/371101964141

I remember in our high school auto class there was a clear cylinder single 4 stroke the teacher had, from memory of it it had about an 1.5"bore and about a 3" stroke. Not sure where it came from but it exists!

Well it's been a while since I have been on here but I haven't lost interest ice just been busy. Last time I was here I had my little engine running but knocked it over trying to make a video and broke the bearing block http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/showthread.php?t=18839 Well a lot...

yep I got to know whats under the cover too! Shop is looking good, I'm moving my shop too at the moment.

cool can't wait to see what you come up with!

that's cool! where would I get plans for one of those?

Ken that is exactly what happened! I'm too hooked on this hobby to quit now sow I will get back in the shop and make another but I'm moving next week so it may be a while :(

:wall: well I have a lot more parts I want to make to replace some bought stuff but I got my first little engine where it would run, I was hooking up air to make a little video to show y'all and knocked it right off the bench! I broke my acrylic flywheel mount, I have stuff to make another but...

I got the cyl. mount drilled at work Friday and got some more done too! no fancy rotary table so I just used the points of a nut to mark out the bolt circle. drilled it out, the finish wasn't as bad as it looks here but this stuff didn't turn as well as I would have liked...

plus no waiting for it to ship!

Well looking around for something to make a flywheel out of I came across these mounting flanges I had cut for a handrail I made for a local theater I drilled a hole in the center made a mandrel and turned down the outside. I may make brass inlays in those holes or maybe magnets for some...

Got back to the engine a little this week, made some parts, broke some parts, made more parts. Its coming together though and I hope with this weekend coming I can get most everything mounted and moving. So on to my progress! I went to the local scrap yard the other day looking for stock...

well I made another one last night (no pics phone was dead) I left a little more meat on it and went to bending... FAIL! it broke even though I bent it the right way. Happy accident though because I redesigned it to work even better!

worked on this part for a while last night got it to where I was going to bend it to make an L action arm (best thing I know to call it) and I bent it the wrong way :wall: I tried to bend it back but it cracked :(