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I would love to make a 1/6th scale model of a Chris Craft boat engine. Flatheads (sidevalves) seem to sound so good and I am a model boat builder anyway, preferring the mahogany hotrods to any other. Has anyone published plans of a flathead 6 cylinder engine in any scale, or even a four that...

Good old ebay. I just found a job lot of Model Engineer mags. for a tenner which happens to include all but one article on building the above Anthony Mount engine design and the one remaining already came today in a trio from the same source. Now, every issue, apart from Mr. Mount's write up...

Hi all, I have had one of the above for many years, but cannot find anything on the net about them at all. My old chum who left it to me described it as a sensitive feed drill and I have used t years ago to do just that. I gave it to my son and alas he simply put it under his bench to get...

Hi all, I am thinking of making a set of reversing gear for my Stuart D10, but it suddenly occurred to me that I had no idea how to turn eccentrics! Any tricks, advices, thread links? Thanks, Martin

OK, folks. Tell me like it is, please. This is likely to be my new hobby having lost my old car projects through storage issues I have a Taig lathe with 3 and 4 jaw chucks and a collet set, also a vertical slide. I do not have a milling machine and can't afford one (around a grand here)...

Over in "another place", model flyers are fretting over the noise made by, particularly, petrol engines and the fact that supplied "silencers" are worse than useless. Since I know a lot of you guys run engines in shows, can I ask what clever methods you use to keep these things quiet, 2 or 4...

Hi all, I am new(ish) to the forum because I am very keen to build an IC engine. It's been a wish for decades, but I have never had the equipment. It may well be that I still don't. The reason I have the equipment I do have is that I am a professional modelmaker as I have been for many years...

Hi all, I have a Taig/Peatol lathe and would love to build a working model petrol engine, preferably a 4 stroke. Can anyone suggest an engine which would be practical to machine on this lathe? Many thanks, Martin Edited to say...I don't have a milling machine, but do have the somewhat...

Hi all, I found this on ebay yesterday. It may go high, it may not. 14 bids already with 9 days to go still. I initially thought it was a Westbury Seal, but I'm not so sure now. All I know is the current price wouldn't buy you one casting from Mr. Hemmingway! I so wish I could afford it, but...