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Found the brochure for the Associated. Starting the crank and base. Have a bar of Babbitt for the bearings.

I will definitely consider this. Makes it nice and self contained.

This is the description on the drawings. I put the brochure somewhere safe and will post it once I find it.

I did not know there were two sizes. This one has 6-1/2” flywheels and the water hopper bolts to the head. Your mag ignition is impressive. Does it work like a Wico?

I’m trying to deciding where to start. This will be a fun project. Did you finish yours?

Just found a complete casting set with the drawings from the 70’s. These we’re sitting in the rafters of the shop.

I’m just getting to it. I am starting with the table and replacing the cross feed screws. It suffered much High School shop abuse. Luckily the table itself is tight.

The burners were lathe spun.

I was talked into teaching a CNC course several years ago. A student figured out when I was born then showed me this article and thought we should build them. Here are the prototypes made from scrap off the shop floor.

I like the dome idea. Start from the center and work out. You want to use some finesse letting the metal will tell you what to do. I work all the way to the edge so it works to the overall shape on each pass. I am still learning myself. Wear gloves in case it slips.

I made an template and left it on the lathe. I annealed the copper several times as I used a mallet to get it close. To finish, I used a bar on my tool post with a bolt for leverage. I got away with this because the copper was soft after heating. Using a 1” bar with a smooth rounded end I...

Being new to boilers, I found a Nebraska regulation guide that I have been working to...

I think the first thing to do is to design and build a vapor fuel system into a base similar to the Pacific model. The Briggs gas has to go.

This is my first boiler. My dad and I ran a clock and instrument repair operation so I used old cleaning solution which seems to do the trick. I just swedged and soldered the fire tubes after doing a few practice tries on an end cap I did not like. I found a thick 3x3.5 foot sheet of copper...

Crankshaft, rod, and piston. The new crank is a copy of the original shown. The ornamental ridges on the base match the head.

I cleaned it up a little.

The head does look close. I did not think it was a compressor. I can see where a governor mounted to the intake would work. On the piston is a ground down plug I suspected to be a post for ignition. The cam gear and mechanism looks original.

The Pacific is fantastic.

I left it as found until I could find actual information on it. I posted it on Smoke Stack and someone guessed it was a converted compressor. The castings and cylinder construction looked like a Pacific, but I had not seen one this small. The flywheels are 15” and the height is 23”. I assume...

I am trying to identify this engine. My dad acquired this engine in 1968 then painted it and set it next to the fireplace as a house ornament. Visitors always asked about the strange little coffee grinder. The crankshaft was badly repaired at some point so I made a new one years ago to get it...