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I have a 1/3 scale Baker Monitor engine built by someone else about 15 years ago. While the engine ran once for about 15 minutes, I haven't had much success since. One of the issues was the apparent lack of compression. I would have expected somewhere around 4 or 5 to 1 but it doesn't feel like...

I have been working on this engine for about a year now making slow but steady progress. The engine is now complete with pistons and turns over quite freely without rings fitted. I am now onto all of the fiddley bits which take all of the time. Note, I CNC cut all of the side covers so any...

I am progressing with the build of the Fairbanks - Morse three cylinder R80 engine. A number of these engines have been built over the years altho the castings are no longer available. I am building mine from bar stock which makes the build that more complex. I am at the stage of machining the...

I am in the process of building the Fairbanks Morse R80 having completed the bottom half which forms the sump and the base for the cylinders. While the drawings that I have show a number of oilers, there is no detail as to how or what they feed. My main concern is how are the crankshaft...

There has been discussion on these pages regarding the building of a true diesel however, the stumbling block is the fuel system and making something that is approximately to scale. I tend to build one-sixth scale (not to big or small). I started this project building a trial engine to see if it...

I am currently well on the way to build an airblast diesel engine and as a result, I am looking to the next project. I have seen on this forum, completed models of the Fairbanks Morse R80 three cylinder gas engine or similar. My question is, does anyone know where drawings or technical...

I have made some progress with this engine however, because I am trying to create a high finish to the model (as good a finish within my capabilities) the going has been slow with some parts being made twice. In my last post, I showed that most of the material parts were available which included...

Since I last made a posting on my new project, being a scale model of a single cylinder vertical air blast injection diesel, based on the original displayed in the Diesel House Museum in Copenhagen. Approximately 50% of the drawings are completed with mostly the detail ones outstanding. The...

The building of any form of model diesel is no mean feat for anyone. However, I have started on a new project to build a 1:6 scale of the DM 104 single cylinder diesel. It is a vertical engine with an auxiliary compressor running off the main shaft. See attached photograph taken in the Danish...

I have always had an interest in cnc and my project started out when I was given a couple of stepper motors. Six months later, my machine is complete and is working better than I ever expected. I should state up front that I make small parts for model engines the current project being a true...

Last year, I was challenged to build an engine that was different to the usual. I found a couple of old photos in a modeling magazine of a cross engine which was a version of James Booth original. The build was completed over a month in hobby hours and with the usual few adjustments to timing...

I am in the process of building a true fuel injected engine by trial and mostly error and have made some progress. The basic engine is completed being a water cooled single cylinder 40mm x 80mm stroke and a compression ratio of 20 to 1. My problems started when I designed my first fuel pump...

The Mary Beam Engine, this engine came to me as a box of parts that had been part machined by Wallace (Wally) Sutherland who was a toolmaker living in Portknockie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He started making the Mary in January 2001 and worked on it until the diagnosis of his cancer in early...