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  1. Twinsquirrel

    Hello from Northern Ontario

    Hey Bryan welcome
  2. Twinsquirrel

    No room for an X3

    OK, well as luck would have it and after a long conversation with the seller this morning all has ended well. Another buyer has been found who has already arranged professional transport to a suitably sized workshop. No one is out of pocket, everyone is happy. I still cant help looking back on...
  3. Twinsquirrel

    No room for an X3

    Hi John, I just sent you a PM while you were writing that post, sorry for the confusion. For everyone else I have finally managed to get some dimensions for the machine of the net and....... don't laugh....... I dont have enough head room in the workshop :big: just call me mr bean
  4. Twinsquirrel

    No room for an X3

    well it looks like I have made a HUGE mistake here.... Got carried away but it was just so ridiculously cheap as a "buy it now" greed took over and I snapped it up before anyone else spotted it.... I am regretting it now. Shame faced and embarrassed Squirrel
  5. Twinsquirrel

    No room for an X3

    Alright... next question.... how the heck am I going to move this thing?
  6. Twinsquirrel

    No room for an X3

    Erm, In a previous post I said I didn't have enough room for anything bigger than an X2, well..... Taking everyones suggestions into consideration and being slightly "madder" than a box of frogs AND being rather too impetuous for my own good, I have successfully bought this. It's a 3 axis...
  7. Twinsquirrel

    Eric's oscillating engine

    Hi Ralph, If I could chime in, yep, that is a balancer, very useful for balancing props etc, I have one here that I used to use for model helicopter parts and came in very useful for the my LTD flywheel. Graupner do a very good one that you can pick up at your local hobby shop. I have to say...
  8. Twinsquirrel

    Learning to use CAD

    Hi MM Have you installed microsoft java virtual machine? Alibre requires it to run. You can download it from the alibre support site here: http://www.alibre.com/support/downloads.aspx#jvm just a thought David
  9. Twinsquirrel

    Pumps in inkjet printers

    Ray, There is a VERY small amount of info on it in this PDF from the M.A.N. museum. Mr. diesel was another one of those troubled genius characters and met with a sad end aboard a ship powered by his own greatest invention.... Sorry there is so little info in this pdf but at least there is a...
  10. Twinsquirrel

    Turning to size - right everytime (well nearly!)

    Simple but effective...... thanks MM :bow:
  11. Twinsquirrel

    Hello from Northern Ireland

    :big: :big: That's exactly what I did before I got mat workshop sorted. Anyway welcome Tim, once you have come over to the dark side there is no escape
  12. Twinsquirrel

    One more 'Tiny' springs to life

    This is one of my bugbears, When I was a small boy we had maccano and lego and maybe if we were lucky we would be able to find some old Triang experimenters sets in a jumble sale. We would be able to build amazing structures and machines with STANDARD building blocks, that was the whole idea of...
  13. Twinsquirrel

    Flame licker engine

    Lovely Don, I hope we are going to get treated to videos of all the little works of art on that bench!!!!! :bow:
  14. Twinsquirrel

    Setting up my new shop

    You haven't found some illegal immigrants in the suds tank have you John? :big: David
  15. Twinsquirrel

    Pumps in inkjet printers

    Hi kludge, Just a theory but do the pumps connect to a "platter" that could be raised to form a seal with the print head? If so it is likely that they are there to create a partial vacuum during a cleaning cycle to pull ink through the head. Edit: it could also be there to prime the head after...
  16. Twinsquirrel

    Ringbom-type Stirling engine

    WOW! What a really super piece of work. On a side note, welcome to the site and what a wonderful part of the world you come from, I spent many happy months in Helsinki as in a previous life/career I had an office in Vantaa. It's one of my favourite places with many very crazy people who are...
  17. Twinsquirrel

    My first IC-engine - smaller version Webster four-stroke

    Welcome, Very nice so far, super ambitious....that's what we like David
  18. Twinsquirrel

    Setting up my new shop

    Sorry to hear that you are having issues there John, I hope that Chester have another machine in the UK to swap out, I'm sure that they will look after you. On the bright side you have found the "unmentionable" problems early on, it would have been much worse if you had fully commissioned the...
  19. Twinsquirrel

    My design, 4 cylinder overhead valve engine

    Gbritnell, Well, you have just caused an argument in my house, I spent 1 1/2 hours looking at the pictures and totally forgot that it was my turn to make dinner ;D ;D ;D Seriously nice work, particularly interesting is the spark advance/retard, is it a fixed linkage? How did you come up the...
  20. Twinsquirrel

    Piston Design

    Hi CB, I have a lamina currently on the back burner and can say that if you are not building from plans the best thing you can do is experiment, experiment, experiment. Lamina's seem to be very finicky more so than LTD Stirling engines even. Use a piece of 6061 aluminium for your cylinder and...
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