Recent content by BWMSBLDR1

Ever seen an ice cream maker drive? Sits on top of the container and drives the dasher below?

Look up the Napier Deltic engine. Intended for the Bristol Brabazon airliner it ended up driving railcars! Bill in Boulder

Wind flat

What a gorgeous engine! I would love to see it in a flying 1910 Bleriot 1/4 scale model!

The museum in Munich is worth visiting to see Carl Benzes' first car. It worked well enough that his wife and children took it on a 180 Km trip! Had to buy gas (benzine) at pharmacies along the way!

You might want to review the article in the HSM Steam and Stirling book V1 on a boiler/engine design for a 14 foot boat two teenage boys took from Washington state to Alaska via the inside passage back in the 1930's.

Years ago an old school machinist told me "It's an end mill, use the end!" To that end there was an article in The Home Shop Machinist in one of the earliest issues on building a simple attachment for sharpening the ends of end mills. Try looking through their on line index for it. as I recall...

First recall that antifriction bearings are used on both ends of the rod because the combustion loads and the inertial loads combine to give a continuous compressive load which prevents developing a lubrication wedge in the bearing gap. Some engines can be designed with weighted pistons allowing...

Backing up 100 years aircraft engine design was focused on weight and cooling. A serious approach was the rotary engine that had radial cylinders on a crankcase that spun around fixed crankshaft. Pistons and cylinders were machined from alloy steel for maximum weight reduction. In higher...

I had a hard bolt break off in a mild steel bushing welded into the chassis of a car. I knew from bitter experience that any drilling effort would lead to a hole in the bushing. So I removed the rubber bushing in the mating part and turned a drill guide that replaced the rubber and could be held...

What a marvelous job! Has that wonderful retro look of the Marklin toys of years past. Gunter, a great acomplishment. I would love to see, hear, and smell it running around a Christmas Tree. Bill in Boulder CO USA

Having seen the Salsbury Cathedral Clock years ago I was glad to see it again in your nice photographs. But for a "more Modern" example of cottered construction try to find a copy or a reprint of the Weed and Parcell book on building a gas engine circa 1903. It offers assembly via threading or...

Cumins was the name of the traveling tool show and I bought a rather good 7X12 Minilathe from them. The Cummins Diesel people made them change the name and they vanished soon after. Bill in Boulder

I feel bad saying this but I am learning a lot about Linux from the suffering of others. I hope to load Linux down to the SSHD on my Dell laptop when I start feeling brave! Bill in Boulder CO USA

How about a description of the belt? I found a perfect replacment for my unimat sl belts at Horrid Fright disguised as a $5 belt for a rock tumbler! Bill in Boulder CO USA