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Oh dear . Sad news indeed .

As promised , a couple of pictures of progress sofar . I have made a "big end " with a MT5 that will fit my lathe spindle to hold the shells once their OD has been urned to size . I also purchased a nice piece of phosfor bronze . It was sold in multiples of 250mm wich leaves very little room...

Yes I have ordered phosfor bronze , and I've already sourced all the raw materials to make the necessary fixtures . I hope to start machining mid next week or so . I'll upload a pic every now and then of the progress .

Just for your viewing pleasure , a picture of the cleaned and painted engine block .

1958 Porsche diesel 3 cilinder . Bought it a year ago , it had been outside sleeping for at least 10 years . . Took us only 15 minutes to get the engine running . Hydraulics worked , brakes worked , gearbox seemed OK . So I started he restauration with high hopes . But then, : cam shaft...

This is a very helpfull reply on the material choice . Just like you suggest , I was gonna make a "fake" big end with a morse taper no5 so that it will fit the lathe spindle to turn to final size . Is there a reason why you recomend phosfor bronze over selflubricating ? I can still...

Yes I did contact several companys offcourse . One of them makes crankshafts from scratch for vintage cars , tractor pulling etc . He had an ordner full of bearing sizes , none of them was a match . Only two options left : Make my own , or pay close to 1000$ , and on top of that the crank...

Pictures of the rod bearings and the main bearings . The rod bearings are worn down to the steel backing ,and one crank journal has a tiny bit of scoring . The main bearings are also in pretty bad shape , but there's a reasonable amount of the copperish metal left .

I would like to brain storm a bit about machining bearing shells for a vintage tractor . New ones are no longer availale , the old ones ar worn to the steel backing and have way to much clearance . Altough there are a few parts sharks that sell oversized shells , a full set of shells would cost...

Rod , what' new in version12 ? I'm running version 11 . Pat

It's resistor value issue . Check posts 69 and 71 . I had thesame issue and it's easily solved .

Yes that's an alias from long ago . Real name is patrick .

I just saw this post . A couple of years back John helped me with somthing . Later on I was able to return the favour . We started exchanging emails , at first about model engineering , then about a variety of subjects . We seemed to be on thesame wavelength Then he got sick , and the mails...

Appologies for the OT . Chuck do you know what happend to John . We used to have contact by email . I know he was very sick , and then suddenly his emails stopped . So I suspected he passed away last year . Tried contacting his relatives but never got a reply . Pat

Model engineers workshop is a great magazine . I enjoy it every month . Worth every penny . Back in the days when flash was still around , acces to the archives was a invaluable source of idea's and information . Then a few years back came the new html5 based reader wich had the print...

Did you use a propane torch or oxy/ad ?

No problem , I like hearing the voice of experiance .

Here's a picture of a failed joint . Altough the copper pipe in the background is fully soldered , the stainless isn't . There's a black spot inside , and that is the burned flux . I had to machine it out to get rid of it and resolder . About connectors , crimping is for mechanical...

I guess I learned something new today . I''m quite familiar with silver soldering , mostly brass fittings on red copper , or red copper to red copper . Never had any problems with it . If the copper is clean enough I can even do it without flux . So I'm retrofitting an airco to a vintage...

In my opinion that doesn't make sense . The ch340 chip is basicly an usb to serial tranceiver . And like every usb device windows needs a driver for it . Win7 doesn't have it so it has to be downloaded and installed separatly prior to the first use . So it's true that the chinese clones with...