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Hi All I've been off my project for a while now and decided to do a little more. Got the cylinders rough out lately. Here's several photo's. Roland

Hi Another rendering with studs,hex nuts and a few more details. Roland

Hi Kvom No, I use a cam program, Mastercam X2 and Autodesk Inventor ( inventor can be had for cheap on E-bay) for the 3d modeling,the bed plate alone had somewhere around 500,000 line of code to cut the top and bottom. It would be a daunting task to write G code for contour cuts like that. Yes...

Hi Harry I agree about the the bearing caps and I'll redesign them to look more like the ones in the drawing you posted,I don't don't know much about the engines and was going completely by the Stuart drawings. I'd like to change the bolt circle for the top and bottom covers. Any suggestion...

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Hi Here's a couple rendering's of my Stuart Triple project so far, I can't decide on the type of fasteners to use cap screws or hex nuts any suggestions? Roland

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Hi Here's some Sonex photos as requested. In no real order. Roland

Hi Hey Toyman is that a wisser motorcycle? Roland

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Yeah it was a ball end mill went though about at 1.125 deep about .500 deeper then the last Z depth it the code.

Hi I didn't finish it, I have a Cozy MKIV that I'm working on and the sonex was get ting the way :-\ And the sonex was taking up my whole shop I was get tired of looking at it so I sold this summer to a guy in Indiana he drove out to NH with his wife and put in a landscape trailer and was...

Hi So there I'm machining the bottom side of the bed plate on the last operation and I usually sit there and watch it cut, So I walk over to my desk and sit down, I no sooner sit down and I hear this noise that I can't describe coming from the machine I run over hit he emergency stop button...

Hi I know this little off subject but this is one of the projects I was working on before I started getting into steam engines, and the reason I have sheet metal tools. ::) Roland

Hi Thanks for the remarks, Yes in northern New Hampshire in get really cold like -28 below sometimes! I'm about 40 mile from the Canadian border by the way the crow flies! Its an 275 gal. oil tank it enables the oil companies to keep their hand in my pocket a real good part of the year! :'(...

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Hi I've looked at all the cool shop photos, So here's some of mine. Roland

Hello Yes its a FADAL 3016 FX , This my first real machining project, Its time now to flip the part over and machine the other side. On the top side there was somewhere around 400,000 lines of code!! :o One tool path alone was 82,000 lines!!. I posted a pdf of the part in the plans sector...

Hi Here's several photos of my project, :) Sorry about the photo quality never been much with a camera. Roland