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Hi Nick Hope you are successful with cleaning up your E Z engine, it isn't very difficult to do and the results are worth the effort. ;D At the moment I have the lathe in bits, doing the tapered Gib mod, the factory fitted system keeps coming loose and its driving me crazy as it causes problems...

Hi Chuck A long time ago, about 20 years ish, when I was young and full of energy I used to be into racing classic motorcycles. The racing lads tend to come up with novel solutions to problems on their bikes, I cant say for certain but I think that I where I have seen these ball joints before...

Hi black85vette Making the ball ends turned out to be not too difficult in the end, but I had to experiment a bit first. I made a form tool out of an old file, but the mini lathe didn't like me using it ( prob trying to cut too much metal too quickly) with it. To help it out I rough turned the...

Hi Njl I have to admit that polishing/cleaning up is fairly straight forward for me, I worked in the metal finishing industry for a short while and learned the basics of metal polishing then. In the case of my E Z engines I haven't spent long doing them, polishing just the aluminium parts. It is...

Hi Chuck perhaps I didnt use the right terminology in describing the ball joints, basically the rod just screws into the cup and up against the lower part of the ball, stopping the cup from coming off. My origional sketch was very rough and didnt scan very well, I have done another, hopefully it...

Hi guys Thanks very much for your encouragement and support, as you can probably tell I have really enjoyed building the E Z engines. They are a brilliant way to start making engines and get a feel for what machining is all about, the designs and instructions are a credit to the people who...

Bill Thanks for the compliment. I get a big smile every time I look at it. It has succeeded in all the ways I wanted it to, so I am very happy with the result. Regards Tony

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The cups for the ball joints are kept in place by the connecting rod entering into the cup bellow the ball a couple of turns and acting as a retaining pin. Once I was happy it was the right length etc I locked it in place with a little drop of loctite on the threads. The double bend in the...

The last linkage was the one that had me stumped for a while, it moves in all directions at once and I wanted my solution to take this into account. My solution isn't the only one, but it is the one I felt did the job the best for me.

My first real problem/decision was the flywheel. I don't have any 6mm aluminium plate left and have no bar stock in alloy anywhere near that size. I did have some 1 1/2" brass bar so I decided to use that as I thought the extra material mass would make up for lack of size.

This week I have managed to find a few hours of time in the shop. ;D So quite a bit has been done on the engine. Managed to make the bell crank, valve and the simple linkages without too many problems.

Hi Zeeprogrammer I have just read through your build, superb work you have a really nice little loco there, congratulations on a wonderful result. Regards Tony

Started with some of the turned parts. The first piston I wrecked whilst parting, so I had to make a second.

A bit of drilling and tapping and the main parts were attached to the base

A bit more progress this week, once I had milled the pieces to size the next job was to drill and bore out the cylinder.

Marks for artistic style and accuracy with a hacksaw? Nil points. ;D The pieces are at least over size. Finally for now milling to finished size. Daft question? are g cramps OK to use? Tony

If you are trying to read whats on the mug. Do you think the GF is trying to tell me something?

A couple of small improvements in marking out. I got some layout blue. It shows up the score lines better and doesn't rub off as easy. The child in me does miss the scribbling with markers tho. ;D I have laminated the drawings so I should be able to read them even with wd40 all over my hands...