Anyone build their own engines for home and garden purposes?

[MechMan183]

So I've noticed that one can purchase small gasoline-powered engines for home and garden use. Since these engines aren't much larger than larger-scale model engines, has anyone ever just for the sake of it, built your own multi-purpose engine?

 

[goldstar31]

Obviously--- 'Ned' Westbury but 'Model Engineer' of which he was Editor has dozens of examples

 

[MechMan183]

Coolbeans; I am new to this hobby so I was unaware.

 

[goldstar31]

Time, perhaps to be letting the rest of us know what and how you are achieving in your apartment workshop.

Regards


Norman

 

[MechMan183]

I promise to do so once I get the lathe.

 

[RonGinger]

I think the problem building a real working engine is one of materials. Working engines do things like special plating on cylinder that are not possible in a home shop. We re OK models because they typically run for very short times- a minute or so at each demo, and in a lifetime probably don't get the time that a weed whacker would get in one days work.

I am sure you could build a replica of an old engine like a Maytag because they were built at a time the technology was about where we are in home shops, plain cast iron and steel parts.