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My Paddleducks Book

An easily explained way to make an engine

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Bogstandard01/09/2010 15:59:52
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A few years ago, I did an engine build on the Paddleducks website.
 
It was designed, written and catalogued as it progressed, no plans, just sketches and making things to fit as it went along. All written and described in laymans terms, for an audience of people with very little machining skills.
 
It is a fairly large engine for it''s bore and stroke, and wasn''t really designed to go into anything, but by the many builds that have taken place since of this engine, it has shown that even a relative beginner can fabricate this engine, and end up with a nice working and complicated looking display model, or you could even put it to work.
 
There are still a few builds in progress on model engineering sites, namely Madmodders and Home Model Engine Machinist, and has become a rather popular engine to make for say a second or third build, there is even one chappie who is building five of them off site, at the same time, and is in regular contact with me about it. I think he is looking at maybe Christmas presents.
 
Luckily a gent at the time took the whole 2 month+ post and edited it completely, and turned it into a ''book'', resulting in a 22MB PDF file. So it should download fairly quickly.
 
I have had this for free download on a few sites, some no longer in existence, but now comes the crux of the matter. It will very soon no longer be available for download from Rapidshare, as I am letting that account lapse, but the good news is that it is now available on my new Hotfile server. During the last year, it has had nearly 1000 downloads, and a few thousand before that.
 
I make nothing from this, and I only do it for the love of trying to keep this hobby alive and interesting to new people to this art form, who could very easily be put off by too much technical jargon.
 
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Main book as a plain RAR file, you unpack yourself.



Main book as a self extracting file. This does it all for you, just download and run the program, it will extract everything for you into the same directory as the exe file is in.


Plans dfx files, not done by me so take if you want them, I can''t guarantee them. This is again a self extracting file, so just run it.
 
Don''t worry if you don''t have a Hotfile account, if you wait a few seconds, you can download it as a free server. As a suggestion, download the self extracting one, it saves a lot of effort, and is guaranteed by me to be totally virus and other nasties free.
 
Just enjoy it for what it is, not only may your learn a few techniques and build an engine, you might also enjoy the sometime humourous ways it was written.
 
 
Bogs
Bogstandard03/09/2010 14:07:21
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Seeing as there have been no complaints, and the download total is growing at an alarming rate, I suppose everything is OK now.
 
Bogs
AndyB03/09/2010 19:06:59
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Hi Bogs,
 
Thank you very much for your generosity...again.
 
I can't access the site so I guess with everyone downloading like mad, it has exceeded its bandwith for the moment.
 
I will try later.
 
Andy
Stub Mandrel05/09/2010 21:26:04
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Thanks Bogs,
 
Neil

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