Hello all,
My name is Patrick and I live in the Netherlands.
After being a passive member for a few years and collecting a lot of inspiration and knowledge from the build threads in this wonderful forum I thought it was time for an introduction as I was thinking about starting a build thread myself.
So I'm not totally new in this hobby as I started a 2 years ago with building the two stroke Debbie Engine from Jan Ridders,which I never got to run properly.
After this unsuccessful attempt I was a bit discouraged and tried building a small steam engine which worked fine.
My second attempt in ic was the firefly 46 two stroke glow engine wich started up the first time i tried it.
After this success I gave the Nemett lynx 15 cc four stroke a try and it started up very nice on gas with electronic ignition.
https://youtu.be/uPRXb-Umup0
This encouraged me to build the 60cc four stroke flat twin by Volker Jung.
After over 250 hours building I was very,very happy that also this one started up the first time.
https://youtu.be/UvGqL1fXA4I
It ran just fine but after disassembling I found the crankshaft a bit distorted
as I made it from 9SMnPb28 free machining steel and this turned out to be a bit on the soft side.
I'm now turning a new one from C45 steel and intend to harden it.
So I'm almost done and almost ready for a new project and I'm going to try building a 7 cylinder radial engine of which I'm planning to start a build thread on this forum.
Pat
My name is Patrick and I live in the Netherlands.
After being a passive member for a few years and collecting a lot of inspiration and knowledge from the build threads in this wonderful forum I thought it was time for an introduction as I was thinking about starting a build thread myself.
So I'm not totally new in this hobby as I started a 2 years ago with building the two stroke Debbie Engine from Jan Ridders,which I never got to run properly.
After this unsuccessful attempt I was a bit discouraged and tried building a small steam engine which worked fine.
My second attempt in ic was the firefly 46 two stroke glow engine wich started up the first time i tried it.
After this success I gave the Nemett lynx 15 cc four stroke a try and it started up very nice on gas with electronic ignition.
https://youtu.be/uPRXb-Umup0
This encouraged me to build the 60cc four stroke flat twin by Volker Jung.
After over 250 hours building I was very,very happy that also this one started up the first time.
https://youtu.be/UvGqL1fXA4I
It ran just fine but after disassembling I found the crankshaft a bit distorted
as I made it from 9SMnPb28 free machining steel and this turned out to be a bit on the soft side.
I'm now turning a new one from C45 steel and intend to harden it.
So I'm almost done and almost ready for a new project and I'm going to try building a 7 cylinder radial engine of which I'm planning to start a build thread on this forum.
Pat
