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Am I missing something? are you kidding? Let's see the interesting bits!!!!!! please :) nice engine and boiler btw David

There are other boards? David

Hey Joel, welcome aboard...

oooh that's a mean looking beastie!! Nice work. Have a safe trip home David

HOLY SMOKE!!! Thanks for the heads up.

Welcome David (good name BTW), Cant help with your questions but I'm sure an answer will be along any minute. David

Very well deserved.... a wonderful piece of work and from reading Gbrtinells other posts I think he may have a few more gems up his sleeve to show us. Congrats David

Hi Stan, The video is not mine, it is from a chap called "mowerofdoom" on youtube. I've seen the design in the link you posted but haven't had a go at making one yet but the other points you make are valid and I have seen from my own tests that if you allow the cylinder to heat up the engine...

Thanks for the heads up on the strobe Stan. Here is a video of a flywheel-less lamina engine, quite interesting. http://www.youtube.com/v/cAyw_dOioMU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0

Hi Stan, Please keep posting your progress, I've been experimenting with laminas as well and like you, I'm still none the wiser. I have noticed a few strange things though.. 1. If you get the piston mass just right you can just give it a flick and it will oscillate at very high speed without...

Oh dear, those poor young minds, frightening that our future is in thier hands.

Ha! I was just thining the same thing!! Seriously though I am learning so much from this thread, not to mention the inspiration... Thanks Maryak..

Hey OBG, welcome, from the sound of things you'll fit right in here. David

Yeah, read it John, just very surprised it seems a lot of machine but with no real strengths. David

CC Just wondering if the wife would mind sharing the dining room

Just browsing really..... John you surprise me, I would have thought it would have been well spec'ed up, from experience with the MOD RFI/RFQ's (wish lists) documents for ships kit usually run to thousands of pages of totally unachievable features and specs. David

How about this for an ineresting bit of kit? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HMS-INTREPID-LATHE-MILLING-MACHINE-ADCOCK-SHIRLEY_W0QQitemZ330274163332QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item330274163332&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A10|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Dont think it would fit in my workshop though.. David

Looks like it was made for that spot CC......A big Borat "high-five" to you

Me too!!!

Ralph CC Twinsquirrel