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It is indeed, out of a PC hard drive. I plan to use the hard drive discs as the flywheel and hopefully mount it back onto the hard drive chassis to make it look like a hard drive from one side and an engine from the other. that's the plan anyway Matt

I've started! I'm documenting it here Matt

I finally got started on an engine after thinking about it for over 2 years. I'm basing it on the Little Machine Shop engine, but with some changes to use some materials and tooling I already had. This means it is a strange mixture of metric and imperial measurment. Basically the layout is...

Thanks for all the advice, I think a wobbler is on the cards, I just need to decide which. I have some material already so I'd like to use that if possible. I'll post something in the work in progress board once I start Thanks Matt

Both my machining skills and the tooling available to me (company has bought more tooling - we now have a mill and more stuff for the lathe too) have improved. I'm not too worried about making something to dimensions anymore, I've recently made some tooling for the company that has required more...

Sorry if this is the wrong section of the forum, wasn't really sure where to ask really I asked about which engine to build a couple of years ago and got some advice, but never got round to building anything. Recently I've been thinking about it again but would like to build something that runs...

you want one of these http://www.ashtonseals.com/lubrication-equipment.asp click on grease guns and a menu drops down then hover over push oil guns. Our harrison lathe came with one but it leaks, need to replace it now we have a miller too. matt

I am contemplating doing the EZ build as my first engine over my christmas break, as such I want to make sure I have everything i need ready, I'm thinking materials, taps/dies and reamers. Now heres the question, The reamers i use at work are either large size adjustable (we have 25mm through to...

Wow, that was fast. that was the conclusion i was coming to, if i just buy "steel" and "aluminium" and "brass" without any regard for grades will i run into problems? or are there certain grades i should avoid at all cost? I'm guessing these small engines don't require any special taps or...

Eventually I would like to build some more complex engines, possibly steam but more likely IC and very probably a stirling engine but I'm a bit stumped as to where to start. It looks like an oscillating engine is probably going to be the best place to start but being new i don't like the idea...

Hi, I'm Matt, i'm 22 and i want to build some engines, eventually! (did that sound a bit too AA meeting?) thought i'd say hello before posting for real hope this forum can provide the help and guidance I'm after, which it looks as though it can thanks in advance matt