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Thanks Jim... It is true that I could vise the parts in the mill as I have all that is required but part of what this is project is about for me is that I wanted to learn a new trick or two too :) I'm using the marking out method as it is a method I have never really used much, yes I've made...

And 2 more pics.. First picture is just after I parted the cover off and then got to marking out the 9 holes in valve plate. I drilled them all out in the drill press holding the part by hand and then parted the plate off at the required thickness in the lathe. Both these parts turned out quite...

Well I got some time in the basement yesterday and today and although I'm far from completion I have made some progress. I have come to the conclusion too that I really need to get myself a small vernier height gauge to speed up and make less painful the marking out process!! Straining to see...

That is some great talented work zee, on both the engine and the video 8)

The picture is a B&W but yes the cylinder is brass... I thought B&W pics for the parts would be a neat touch and then when I complete the engine, add some paint to the base, table, lagging etc I'll shoot the color shots.

Nice work and great thread Brian Thm: I really like your method of machining the cylinder and I do wish I had read this thread before I started mine!

And that must have just sucked in a bad way... :Doh:

Thought I'd document online my progress with regards to constructing an Elmer's #32. This is my first attempt at an engine of any kind so please check your mics and verniers at the door :-[ I have about 3 hours into this brass cylinder part and most of that time was spent marking out...

Thanks, those pictures helped greatly. Boy that's some delicate milling...just looked in my cutter box, no 1/16 end mills. My smallest is 3/32 scratch.gif

And it was exactly the answer I needed... Thank you Jim :) Ok so now back to work on a drilling jig. Decided I'd make a little drilling jig out of 3/16 x 1 x 2 1018 as the layout work on the cylinder, valve plate, cover and steam chest for one engine is one thing but should I want to make...

Thought I'd try one of Elmer's engine, not really an external combustion guy but hey I'm gonna have a go at one just for fun maybe :shrug: Anyway I'm looking at the drawings and I can fathom everything quite well, the darn valve tho is another story... scratch.gif If anyone has a picture of...

Thank you all for the warm welcome, I've been logged in for a few hours absorbing info and looking at the work of others. I must say there is some very impressive stuff being built by the members here :) gmac... Are you speaking of the aspin valve engine that was a construction series in...

Hi all, great site! Scratching my head trying to figure out why I never found this site before but hey I'm here now ;D So as the story goes I've been interested in, and wrenched on, IC engines for most of my life but have never built one even though over the last 10 or more years I have...