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I'm getting ready to purchase my first lathe (probably a Horror Fright 7x12), and something just occurred to me: I live in an apartment. Am I going to bother my neighbors by running a mini lathe on a wall that's opposite and ~15 feet from the one I share with them?

Does anyone know where I could find some technical drawings of the Cox .049 Surestart: https://coxengines.ca/cox-.049-surestart-engine-die-cast.html Mainly I want to know some dimensions of the crankcase, crankshaft, and connecting rod. I want to make a crankcase for a v-twin Cox.

Hi all, I posted here a few weeks back on how the port timing on my (future) 2-stroke SI engine should look. I took some advice from the comments and switched to closer to a loop scavenging approach, and also simplified the machining. My main question is still how my port timing looks. The...

I mean the kind used for rod/main bearings in engines. My first thought is a piece of tube is turned to inner and outer dimensions, then cut in half with a saw. But then it's no longer perfectly circular because you're missing the tiny bit (thickness of the saw blade) from the center, so you...

I've decided that I want my first project to be a basic 2-stroke. Nothing fancy, just a single cylinder spark-ignition 2-stroke. I'd be elated just to get it to run. So I'm currently deciding on placement of the transfer and exhaust ports. I know there's a lot left (head, entire carburetor...

Hi, I'm just introducing myself. I've been browsing this forum for a while now and finally think I should join in. I'm a senior at a university. My major isn't very relevant to machining or anything like that, but I do love designing things in Solidworks. I've designed a few small air-powered...