Gday all
I've been absent from this forum for a little while because I've been very busy in the machining metal world and I've absolutely fallen in love with it. I've put myself through a steep learning curve and have learnt a lot of tricks and abilities that I didn't know where possible including making my own piston rings, bearings, nickel plating etc.
Anyways, I thought I'd share some pics of some of the things I've made.
This was the first engine i made. It was straight forward and came with drawings to follow to create each part. It's a double acting steam engine that also runs on compressed air.
I wanted to make something slightly more difficult so I made a 4 cylinder steam engine. This was off the top of my head and didn't follow any plans.
Here is a video of it running
http://youtu.be/AJdh9wP2gUM
Anyway, after finishing this I wanted to make something bigger, so I decided to make a v8 internal combustion engine. I started this in October last year and unfortunately am still going with it. It will (hopefully) run on nitro fuel, it is 4 stroke and apart from the nuts and bolts and timing chain, I've made every part for it.
More pics to follow...
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