Making the Cylinder Liners for the pair of Seal 4 cylinder engines
Making the cylinder liners for a pair of Seal 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engines.
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Clarke Bandsaw performing well despite poor stand!
Filed in General engineering posts, IC model engines, Tool Reviews, seal engine build on Jan.11, 2010
Clarke 6″ Bandsaw performs well in cutting a large piece of brass which makes up for the rubbish stand it is supplied with. Follow the engine build on www.mikes-models.com
Work Starts again – Seal cylinder liners started
How a model engineer builds a pair of Seal 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engines.
Inline boring Seal 15cc Edgar T Westbury’s engine
Filed in General engineering posts, seal engine build on Oct.06, 2009
How an in line boring bar was used and also the home designed and made, tool setting fixture, on a Seal 15cc engine.
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Seal castings worked upon – Edgar T Westbury’s design
Filed in General engineering posts, seal engine build on Sep.26, 2009
// Today I managed to drill, then tap the oil filler holes on both cylinder blocks of the Seal engines. The set up time for any machining task is normally much longer that the metal removal and today’s task was a fine example of the little extra effort in making another engine. The first job was [...]
A piston for a piston……..or 2 or 8……
I managed to scrounge an aluminium piston from a local marine engineer (he repaired our boat engine……) and intend to see if I can produce the pistons for the Seal engines from it. I am working on the premise that if its good enough for full sized engines then it will be good enough for [...]
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Today’s session – the end of the beginning but not the beginning of the end!
Filed in Camshafts, General engineering posts, IC model engines, One off projects, seal engine build on Apr.19, 2009
Today’s session – the end of the beginning but not the beginning of the end! The 3rd and last camshaft has been made for the two Seal engines I am building at present
Last camshaft for Seal engine is started today.
Filed in Camshafts, General engineering posts, IC model engines, One off projects, seal engine build on Apr.18, 2009
Last camshaft underway today for the Seal 15cc engine
At last I’m back in the workshop building the Seal 15cc engine
Filed in General engineering posts, IC model engines, One off projects, seal engine build on Apr.17, 2009
Despite an error, progress is made with boring out the cylinder block casting for a Seal 15cc engine designed by Edgar T Westbury in 1947. Go to mikes-models.com for a full description.
