My Odds and Ends Hit and Miss

[lugnut]

Hi all, back in April of this year when Harold Lee posted the photos and video of his Odds and Ends Hit and Mill engine, I fell in love with it and had to make an attempt at building one. I bought a copy of The Shop Wisdom of Philip Duclos and started gathering material.
Now I'm nearly done with the roughing out work and just waiting for a spark plug and a set of points to come. Once I see it will run I will take it a part and clean up some of my rough and sloppy machine work and try to make it presentable.
I thought I might start posting some photos of my progress and hope some of you will speak up and make some suggestions for making it better.
This first set of photos is of the frame and it's building. The material is 2"X3"X3/8 hot rolled angle iron.

sawing the angle iron for the frame

Milling the frame half. this was all most more that my little mill wanted to handle.

frame fitted and the block of steel. I scraped the steel block and used aluminum. I knew I couldn't mill out the steel block

cleaning up the bottom of the frame with the fly cutter.

Milling the frame sides

More frame milling.

I'll post some more photo later
Mel

 

[chuck foster]

looking good mel 8) ............keep us posted
you are right it makes a good little engine ;D

chuck

 

[lugnut]

To continue on with my story of my Odds and Ends engine. I built the crankshaft next from a piece of hot rolled steel 1/2 x 1 1/4 I won't show you the first attempt (may it rest in peace) I didn't follow the instructions.
Had to make a lathe dog to turn the crank between centers

next the con rod journal using a cut off tool to reach in to the journal.

The bolt in the center helps stop any warping and bending while turning the shafts.

I missed a bunch of steps so no crankshaft by it's self, but here it is mounted in the frame.

I will continue on later today
Mel