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Interested in how others have come up with means of testing the vacuum on their model engines. Wondering if a Schrader valve would be useful & what it's proximity to the cylinder/cylinders ought to be.

Starting this thread for personal enlightenment and to encourage my good friend who started the build. 1`st the background: Glen has been using my shop for years coming by 1 day a week, learning machining while building this 1/3 scale model designed by Woody Sims, drawing by Todd Snouffer for...

Attached is the 1st three (3) part designed for an 1/4 Scale Benz Engine Model. I am choosing this scale because I have a nice 6 1/2 Diameter Flywheel already, also because my wife & I are planning to move to a Sr Living Apartment in another few years, making size a factor. Looking for some...

You folks have been a terrific resource, and I'll start with a thank you! I am looking for a reasonably priced source of retaining rings, specifically right now 'E-Ring' clips, turns out my hardware store no longer has them available for 1/8" shaft. So I am looking for a supplier of small...

Wanting to get the spark as close to the cylinder bore as I can I'm wanting to know what is the right depth for a quarter 32 spark plug thread. Meaning from the shoulder of the Spark Plug to the tip of the futhermost part of it, you know the 'watchmacallit'.😏

This thread via the suggestion of Dave Sage; I bought a set of Atkinson Differential plans from Dave Perralt, and proceeded to draw them up in Solidworks, for two reasons, the primary reason was to learn the Solidworks program, the second was to understand the design, and do a check of the...

Hello, fellow handle crankers (even those of you who are CAM operators) ;). Just a few quick notes about myself and my interests: Served a Tool & Die Apprenticeship 1960-1965 at Smith Corona Marchant, in Oakland, CA, (1960-1963), they moved to South Carolina :confused:, I finished my...