Thanks to Rob Wilson for his articles.
Filed in General posts, seal engine build on Feb.08, 2009
I get many emails but I had a nice one today from Rob Wilson who was complementary on my site but also without prompting, sent me two articles relevant to the building of my Seal engine. Both articles were in PDF form and one covered the build, detailed by Edgar T Westbury himself, in Model Engineer magazine 1947.
The second was an article on setting boring bars heights on a lathe and this is one I have not seen before so I hope to earn something of benefit when boring the crankcase on the lathe. Its this sort of unselfish help that seems to be common to model engineers as a group. So thank you Rob and keep visiting.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Hi Mike,
I found your web site on google, but could not for the life of me find your email address, so I hope you don’t mind me using your blog. I really need to find someone who can engineer me a 15t .75 Mod pinion wheel that has a 13mm face. Pref is would be at the end of a bar which has a total length of 42mm with a 5mm bore for the motor shaft with the biggest grub screw possible on a 12.75mm thickness shaft. I need two, but can’t find them. Can you make them for me? If so, how much would they be?
Please email me at georgy_scott@hotmail.com
Many thanks,
George.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Hello George,
Sorry about the email problem on the main website. I have recently had to change website authoring software and in the change over I forgot to add the email link! Thanks fro letting me know and i am making good that error at the moment.
Regarding your gear query, I am happy to make two for you but since I don’t have the required cutter I wonder if you would be happy to just buy the cutter for me to use? If so then as soon as you can get the cutter to me I will make the two gears. If you want to go ahead I will do a CAD drawing of what I think you want and send the 3D CAD drawing and JPEG to you before starting.
Hope that helps and I look forward to hearing from you. Mike