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Hi I have started my winter project a 1889 Welch & Lawson engine full scale or larger. I am just working from a picture and patent drawings and don't know the real size. I have a nice curved spoked flywheel that needs an engine so I will use it and build the engine to fit it. The fly wheel is 30...

I've started my winter project. But I have held off posting anything because my projects sure do start off ugly. I am building a full scale 1886 Benz. I have the original patten and some really good pictures but no actual blue prints. What I basically know about this is it has a 3.5" bore, and a...

Hello I have started my first model engine from castings and thought I would share it with this fine group here. It is a 1/ 8 scale Reid 6 hp 2 stroke. Tom Here is my first one piece crankshaft .

hello all I have been away from this site for awhile got tied up restoring some engines but I am back to model engine building again. If your new here you can see last winters project by searching atkinson cycle engine supersize. I have started building a model of a engine built by Economic...

I need to build a fan blade for my air cooled engine. I don't know how many blades and the angle they need to be set at to give me max air flow . Here is what I have to work with. 200 to 300 rpm 10 dia. 1inch thick. Thank You Tom

This is my second model project .The engine was built from plans by Harold Depenbusch.This is what it started out looking like. This is how the flywheels were made. When I brazed the ends on to the cylinder It shrank it on the ends .The cylinder was made out of 4140 .All the heat hardened...

I have started a new project and thought I would share it with you. I am building a large Akinson Cycle Engine to power a small ride on tractor. What I have is a flywheel that I am going to build a engine to fit . :roll: I have the frame all most done and will post pictures when I get it...

Would you guy please explane to me how to balance a engine . Flywheel, cranckshaft, rod, Thanks to all who reply. Tom T

Here is some pictures of a Atkinson Cycle Engine I built last year. This engine makes all 4 strokes in a single turn of the crankshaft and each stroke is a dfferent length.I measured them on this model and got power 1.250 exhaust 1.5 intake .75 compression .5 :roll: The plans where by...

Here is my ford. When I was building this I told my wilfe this engine would never run good boy was I wrong. It starts easy and runs good. Tom T

Hello again. Here are some pictures of an engine that I built. Its a 4 piston engine. But it gets the fuel economy of 1. 8) TomT

Hello I have been lurking here awhile and thought I would introduce my self. I have built 3 model engines. a hit and miss by Harold Depenbusch blue prints a Atkinson cycle engine By Vincent Gingery, piston engine of my design and I am building Henry fords engine now . Tom T :D