Member postings for Martin Field

Jason, thanks for the answer. I was beginning to think nobody had seen my post.

Disappointing though on the 4 stroke front.

I suppose I could get a 4 jaw for the Peatol, but a mill is out of the question. I checked some ads and prices and they're either so big they'd go clean through the shed floor or smaller and way too pricey.

If I invested in a 4 Jaw for the wee lathe, does that give me a wider range of engines to try?

I wasn't keen on the looks of the Boll-Aero, tbh.

Cheers,

Martin

Oh, I forgot to mention, my son has a slightly bigger lathe of the 2 1/4" persuasion and an Adept hand shaper, should I need them.

Martin

Hi all, I'd forgotten I'd signed on here, Heaven knows back when, but with my full sized car projects gone, I got back to wondering about making a working model engine, something I've always wanted to do.

I have some model aircraft and boats to do, but summer is a-going out and I tend to think of indoor projects.

I would prefer a 4 stroker and petrol powered, but would consider glow plug.

I have to work within the tools I have, which are:-

Peatol (Taig) lathe with decent three jaw chuck, vertical slide, indexing plate and a small (very) mill/drill attachment I made from a minidrill and what remained of a fax machine, which clamps in the vertical slide.

I don't have a milling machine and have little chance of getting one.

I am a pretty experienced silver solderer and filer of shapes, since I spent most of my working life as a producer of brass patterns for model kits.

Considering the above limitations, is there an engine on which I could cut my I/C teeth, that you would recommend?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Cheers,

Martin

Norman,

it's always lurked! And with the bigger lathe coming it may well not be long.

I once bit the bullet, bought all the castings for a Westbury Sealion from that funny little stationary shop in Oundle and started it on my old Unimat!! Then I got hard-up and flogged them all to the man in the Old Marmalade Factory in Oxford Now I can't afford them in the current form. Dammit.

But the Ron Collona 1/4 scale Offy has always appealed, especially in a 1/4 scale Miss Daytona boat.

Down, boy!!

Martin

Michael, thanks for the links. I had seen the Lathes.co.uk site for the EW and that is the original style countershaft, but looking again, I think something very like the original could be fabricated, using ABC (Picador) loco type plummers, which I only discovered last night. Suitably finished in crackl black it would look just right, I think.

The micro lathe site is certainly a cornucopia of tinkering. Apart from locking levers on my Peatol instead of hex bits in a screwdriver, I can't think why people can't leave well alone with such a simple tool, but of course to some that in itself is the hobby. I also have a 1/4 horse motor which the Harborne man (Peatol supplier of Taigs) brought with him. It is contained within the footprint of the lathe base for compactness. All the belt tensioning thing is way over the top as I've only needed two belts in about 12 years! And my machine gets regular use as I am a professional modelmaker. OK, a quick change toolpost would be good, especially when making wheels for model cars, but I don't have a mill, so a little patience (which is the most I do posess) will have to go a bit further.

Once again, thanks for all your help.

Martin

Michael,

a few to think about there. Many thanks for your time.

Martin

The above is the worst waste of £12 I have ever been foolish enough to make. The "draughtsmanship" was appalling. There are so many errors and ommissions that after I had corrected it, I really might as well have designed my own.

Don't touch it with a flying barge pole!

Martin

Hello all,

my son has just bought an EW and we collect it on Thursday. As far as I can ascertain, it has a motor, but no countershaft. I want to get the lad going on this as soon as possible, so does anyone know of any references to a simple countershaft design that is both elegant and reasonably easily made by two mechanically inclined guys, but not that well equipped with odds and ends?

We are not interested in power feeds, auto-cross feeds and certainly not remotely interested in electronics, so just a nice simple, reliable installation that can be moved around a bit in his small spare bedroom workshop. Something that goes with the period of the machine. I have a Peatol lathe and my son has a HUGE treadle/motor operated ancient in the carport, so we figured something in between indoors was a good idea. We are model makers rather than model engineers, but have always fancied making a working model engine as we're also petrolheads. He has a GT6 and I have an Austin 7 Special, for both of which it would be nice to make odds 'n' sods.

Thanks,

Martin