Member postings for Ian Skeldon 2

Welcome to the forum Dave Corkish, ignore the Comments from Brian he is in a small minority, the larger group of forum users are often friendly and helpful. I can't help with your enquiry but I hope that you do eventually find the information you are looking for.

ATB,

Ian

I have never built my own aero model engine but I have owned a few Laser engines (and still do), British 4 stroke engines, very reliable and fairly powerful.

I can't say for sure, but maybe you could contact them and buy gears from them? Link below

Laser Engines

Edited By Ian Skeldon 2 on 26/04/2019 21:26:20

But what a beauty she is, nice one Jason.

Nice engine Andy.

Duncan Thanks for the tip, will give that a go.

Jason I love that engine, just to give an idea of the size, what diameter is the fly wheel?

Thanks to Harry for the link, I have emailed them and am awaiting their response, I will of course let you all know how it goes.

Great day so far......

Day off from work , MEW mag dropped through the letter box and shortly after that the Vertex rotary table I bought second hand from forum member David Corner arrived.

David I commend your packing sir and I can't thank you enough for being such a gent to deal with.

Many thanks,

Ian

Do WM have a website? I have googled and come up with only one address that is actually Walker Midgely and that returns a bad page??

I have seen lots of the things you have made, so in the right hands they're very useable.

Thanks Jason

Does anyone here use a Soba roary table without any issues? As already covered it depends on the level of accuracy the user is trying to achieve but it would be interesting to hear from owners of such tooling.

I don't think I will ever have to worry that a shaft or bearing face is one hundredth of a millimeter out, and if I did I am really sure I don't have the time, equipment or skill to improve it, so maybe that vertex would be a good item for me to buy.

Ketan, do you sell Vertex?

Ian

Thanks for sharing, great video although I don't think it needed the music.

Thank you Benjamin, IanT and Nick, I will check out both of those suggestions.

Ian

Firstly my apologies is this post is considered to be hi-jacking the original thread (there's a pun in there somewhere).

What is considered to be the best way to create very small diameter threads ( 1mm for instance) both internal and external, can you buy taps and dies in that sort of size?

Thanks,

Ian

David I bow to your ingenuity and machining skills, not to mention your patience.

Edited By Ian Skeldon 2 on 20/01/2019 17:04:33

Could be I am looking at the wrong thing, this is all I found **LINK**when looking for Onshape. As I am not a student or an educator it would seem that there is only the trial version available?

Turbine Guy,

I have looked at Onshape a couple of times but unless your a student (or I have missed something), it seems pretty expensive $1500 a year.

Ian

Hi Martin,

It does have some fine drawings in the gallery, like I said it would seem that you know your way around it pretty well.

ATB,

Ian

Martin (or should it be Eddie ?) anyway, you do make it look easy with MOI, you certainly seem to know your way around that particular package, out of curiosity, what does it cost to buy?

Edited By Ian Skeldon 2 on 13/01/2019 16:43:31

I don't think you can go wrong for a tenner as long as it's accurate enough for the intended use, I will have to take a look around for a Lidel, thanks Bazyle.