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Yesterday I managed to make the tappets for one engine (8 in all) and they are now awaiting my first attempt at case hardening. To speed up their production I made a tube out of stainless steel to fit over the slot drill I was using. The method worked fine and it didn’t take too [...]

I managed a short session today and managed to nearly complete the first engines 8 valves. There only remains 4 valves to be finished to overall size then cut a slot in each face. When these 8 are done I will then make the corresponding valve guides. I am undecided whether to follow this by [...]

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.

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

How a model engineer builds a pair of Seal 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engines.

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 [...]

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

Well I haven’t managed to get into the workshop very much this last few days only managing a couple of hours today. The reasons vary from medical, dealing with our blown up boat engine and I am a couple of articles behind for various model engineering magazines. So please bear with me. Normal, whatever that [...]

Making the camshaft for Edgar T Westbury’s 15cc 4 cylinder petrol engine. A design thats still going strong since it was first published in 1947. Yes, 1947!