Hi everyone - it's great to find this forum
My name's Chris, and I'm from the southern outskirts of Sydney. I'm primarily interested (as far as this hobby goes, amongst many) in building my own glow engines.
I've been away from metalworking for three decades, more or less, and have finally taken the plunge to come back and buy a mini lathe to start building what I've always wanted to build - my own 10cc engine. I'm starting out by gradually replacing parts on existing OPS and MDS 60's to get back into the swing of things.
I've bought a small Sieg C2 to begin with, along with a vertical slide and a bunch of tools. It's a start. I hope to do as much as I can with it before going a little larger and trying to find another Myford ML7 like I had access to years ago at home. It needs a little tuning (loose cross slide with the vertical slide mounted), but it's a good little thing. I'm enjoying just being on a lathe again!
Anyway, my first two warm-up projects are a new air-cooled cylinder head for an OPS 60 marine that I'm converting to air for installation in a tether car, and a basic venturi carb to replace the throttleable one current on there. I'm just waiting for a 1/4-32 tap to arrive so that I can thread the head for the glow plug and I'll test today. Great fun
Glad to be here. I'm looking forward to chatting! Small fry compared to some of the amazing people and work I've been seeing here, so there's LOTS of inspiration to be gleaned from this forum!
Cheers
Chris
My name's Chris, and I'm from the southern outskirts of Sydney. I'm primarily interested (as far as this hobby goes, amongst many) in building my own glow engines.
I've been away from metalworking for three decades, more or less, and have finally taken the plunge to come back and buy a mini lathe to start building what I've always wanted to build - my own 10cc engine. I'm starting out by gradually replacing parts on existing OPS and MDS 60's to get back into the swing of things.
I've bought a small Sieg C2 to begin with, along with a vertical slide and a bunch of tools. It's a start. I hope to do as much as I can with it before going a little larger and trying to find another Myford ML7 like I had access to years ago at home. It needs a little tuning (loose cross slide with the vertical slide mounted), but it's a good little thing. I'm enjoying just being on a lathe again!
Anyway, my first two warm-up projects are a new air-cooled cylinder head for an OPS 60 marine that I'm converting to air for installation in a tether car, and a basic venturi carb to replace the throttleable one current on there. I'm just waiting for a 1/4-32 tap to arrive so that I can thread the head for the glow plug and I'll test today. Great fun
Glad to be here. I'm looking forward to chatting! Small fry compared to some of the amazing people and work I've been seeing here, so there's LOTS of inspiration to be gleaned from this forum!
Cheers
Chris