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Seal 15cc 4 cylinder valve guides and flywheel under way.
Working out how to make the valve guides for Edgar T Westbury’s 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engine. Follow the building of two Seal engines on www.mikes-models.com Continue reading
Posted in General engineering posts, IC model engines, seal engine build
Tagged flywheel, seal engine build, valve liners
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Seal cylinder liners completed – Need honing and fitting now
How one model engineer made eight cylinder liners out of cast iron for a pair of Edgar T Westbury’s 4 cylinder 15cc petrol engines. Follow the build and other model engineering issues on his website. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Clarke Bandsaw performing well despite poor stand!
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 Continue reading
Work Starts again – Seal cylinder liners started
How a model engineer builds a pair of Seal 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engines. Continue reading
Inline boring Seal 15cc Edgar T Westbury’s engine
How an in line boring bar was used and also the home designed and made, tool setting fixture, on a Seal 15cc engine. Continue reading
Seal castings worked upon – Edgar T Westbury’s design
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar T Westbury, seal cylinder block
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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 … Continue reading
Today’s session – the end of the beginning but not the beginning of the end!
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 Continue reading