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wow just realized i haven't posted here for a long time. My engine was coming along pretty good but i ran out of time and no longer have access to the machine tools to finish it. The thing is is that it only need a couple of spacers and the valve linkage to be done as i got most of it done in...

hello there im still new around here and still on my first engine buile but any way i have found a book by A Elmer Verburg that is almost three hundred pages of engine plans but its missing a few pages and i was wondering if any on here had this book or new where i could find copies of the...

hmm lots of interesting thoughts and im young so who knows what will be standard by the time im an old man considering how far technology has came in the last hundred years.

well yea obviously in this world of friction it most likely would never be possible and one leak in the whole system and its sol hence the "theoretical" but would be interesting to see even if it was just a supplement pump to the main compressor pump. and thanks for that pic of the grain mill it...

ok this is a little out there but i was thinking this morning and theoretically could you have a compressed air engine hooked up to and driving an air compressor that in turn provided the air to run the engine, an engine powering itself. if the air compressor could put out the same or more air...

yea im sure i will have lots of questions as the build progresses as if i hadnt found this site im not sure i would have ever tried to build and engine and expect it to run but now i think im good with help from you guys.

well i got the crank about half done today after i broke and bent the first one oops. .1875 of an inch is a small journal. cant wait to really get going on it

thanks for the offers of help and as far as the name its what i use for all my online forums and comes from being a member of Ford Truck enthusiast and doing a ground up rebuild of a 1959 Ford f100 which is still in progress. thanks again for the welcome and im sure i will have lots of questions...

well hello there ive decided to build my first engine, a rotary valve two cylinder upright that i got plans for from a link from this site. im eighteen but am in my third year of machine shop classes so i think with enough try i can build it. Any tips or advice on the build would be appreciated...