so waht ya doin today?

[Rick]

Yep, had to tone it way down myself.

 

[CZ93X62]

Ditto. Narcissism is at epidemic levels here in Kalifornistan.

 

[Pistolero]

I'm going stop replying on this topic dont want to lose friends and be banned for saying what I really think about some of the obnoxious comnents.

See you guys in a few days. Maybe.

 

[Brad]

Bill makes a good point. Time to change the topic a bit to keep things toned down.

We all have opinions on some matters but let’s keep them in check and not let bicycles on the road divide a bullet casting forum.

Nuff said

 

[Brad]

I finally got off my butt and ordered the material for a small engine project. I went with 12L14 for the flywheel because 3” brass rod is awful spendy.
Now I need to order some bearings, and taps. Will likely need a rotary table too.

Might cut a chunk off and learn to set up bolt hole circles on the DRO tomorrow.

 

[Ian]

??? Brad's building an ENGINE?

 

[smokeywolf]

As long as I've been using DROs on mills, I still use the "polar to rectangular" feature on my calculator for locating coordinates in bolt circles.

 

[Brad]

Yes I am. May take me a year or so? Plans I found are all metric so I debating some changes to English threads instead of getting metric taps and dies.
Will be a good learning experience to get everything to line up properly.

 

[KeithB]

Good luck with that, sounds like a neat project.

 

[Brad]

Truth be told Keith I am a bit intimidated. Never built something like this or anything with this kind of need to fit together right.

Will be a challenge to my skills

 

[fiver]

Dragster engines hardly make 1,000 rpm's before they blow up.

 

[Brad]

Not a dragster engine. I don’t want nitromethane around the house.

 

[Ian]

But it smells so good.

 

[KeithB]

You'll learn a whole lot but I have confidence that if you take your time and think things thru you'll do fine. Looking forward to your posts on this, holler if I can do anything to help.

 

[Brad]

1-Cylinder Flame-eater with Internal Valve

ridders.nu

I will be building it in English, not Dutch. My mill doesn’t want to learn another language. It figures Chinese and English are good enough.

 

[KeithB]

A hot air engine, interesting. The U where I preached had a Stirling(sp) engine that we would demonstrate in our thermo II class. This looks like it could be a fun project for sure.

 

[Brad]

I looked at many other designs but wanted a simpler design and fewer parts.

I considered a Sterling engine but decided this one looked good for a starter project. Maybe next time?

 

[Ian]

Pretty cool. So the Marlin re-barrel is on back burner?

 

[Brad]

Pretty cool. So the Marlin re-barrel is on back burner?

That is on hold for now. Cost of barrel is a barrier, I can be cheap? I have a 357 revolver waiting for a new barrel too.

Too many projects that need to be done and only so much time and money.

 

[fiver]

run it on E-85 what's 500 hp one way or the other?
how fast does the wife need to mow the lawn anyway.