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I was "taken" by an article in M.E. written by a fellow Australian, on his build of a scale Lister 6/1 diesel, c/w diesel pump and injector. I started out by trying to use the drawings in ME, but they were lacking in some details, and were contradictory in some dimensions. I finally got enough...

I started building this home grown Traction Engine with a set of home drawn up plans approx 1.5 times a Sweet Sixteen. The Sixteen has a sliding cylinder inside a cylinder. It does not have a normal cylinder and slide valve arrangement. I scaled up the slide cyl in slide cyl unit, built it but...

This is my Farm Engine from Strictly IC Magazine. I need to know about the compression that is required to make it run. The plans call for the piston to stop about 3/8" from the top of the cylinder. I built it like that and it had no noticeable compression. I then remachined the cylinder so...

Hi all, i am an Aussie by birth, but I have made Canada my home. I have been a model maker for as long as I can remember, and I have a photo of myself, with a broken arm, operating my dad's home made lathe when I was 8 or 9! I am 62 yrs young. I have a small home workshop with a lathe and...