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I did some lathe turning on it with a HSS toolbit. I suppose it machines like a powder metal part although I don't have any real experience with PM. It is powdered stainless infused with bronze. Hard enough to be NOT file friendly. You can buy a sample piece of it from Shapeways, which I...

3D printed stainless steel 1/4 scale Flathead crankshaft. Flat32:cool:

Castings that are cast iron will be a bronze or copper nickel, I hope. No aluminum casting. Crankshaft will be cast. Heads, water pumps and oil pump also cast. Steel stamping oil pan can be cast since the First Flathead Ford V8 had a cast pan. I figure to farm out threading bolt and stud...

My email is [email protected]. I need yours to set up a shared Dropbox for file transfer. Flat32:cool:

Is this the beginning of a team effort?? I get like a dog on a bone when I start something. Ordering an Objet 30 Pro tomorrow, trying to find existing 1/4 scale spark plugs, figuring out how to hot forge valves, getting my wax printer running and I've reached the point where I can see a...

OK Aonemarine. Email me your email address and I'll set a shared Dropbox and put some files in it. Do you do vacuum assisted casting? Flat32:cool:

I'll make metal castings using plaster cores made in core boxes that are cast from 3D printed patterns which will have some relatively deep ribs in places. Detail can suffer with the multiple steps as well as dimensional accuracy. The actual block has many walls at a nominal .180" thickness...

I'm a fanatic for detail resolution. Filament just can't satisfy my need. Looking at an Objet30 Pro which will have to print my parts before I buy. Shapeways took three tries before they got my last part done and shipped. Didn't receive it yet. Flat32:fan:

Dave, the block is not one file, but nine or ten. Split up because my Solidworks 2005 becomes painfully slow when the file gets around 40MB. Even split up the complexities of the part make the design tree cumbersome. I even have difficulty keeping track of how I created the files. Flat32:wall:

As it is turning out the 3D printing methods that can print this block are very limited. Impossible to do this with a filament printer even at 1/4 scale. I'm investigating what printer can and hoping would be under $50,000. Flat32

I'm in Federal Way Washington, retired and always home so if you're ever up my way you're welcome to stop by my place. I'm going to make a set of core boxes to make cores the way Ford did and attempt to cast the block in some low temp metal. I was surprised at how thin bronze can be cast, but...

I recently completed in Solidworks the engine block true to Ford blueprints. Having 3D prints made by Shapeways scaled to 16% in acrylic. 1946 to 1948 59 block. Found out they offer different materials including brass and bronze. I thought it would be in some kind of faux material...