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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!

I have a set of castings for a 15cc 4cylinder petrol engine which is in the 2009 plan. Unlike my other models, the Fowler traction engine and the Mills 1.3cc diesel engine, the Seal will be put to use (subject to a successful build of course) powering a large scale Fairey Huntsmen, classic boat.  I [...]