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hello john here its nice to see that engine completed i too am building that engine but our earthquakes that are still happening have prevented me from too much shed work but i have completed the crankcase and cylinder thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum

from a briggs master service tech thanks its been wondeful following on this build great to hear it run many thanks for letting us share its the sort of build i dont feel like sitting under my bench howling about my feeble efforts and seeing the toils and troubles along the way makes it all...

took some pics tried to start a thread but pics too large i will resize them and try a gain over sat too late last night with work next day get up time comes too soon

i wondered that before about the bike but looik at the scale of the window blinds bloody nice model tho both of them ps the little de dion is comming along ok made some changes to the plan for easier maintenance of the valves

just an update had 13 quakes from midnight 3.9 ranging to 5.5 :( 1ts now only 7am poor old house is twisting like a pretzel stick wife and kids nerves streched tight i will have to shut my mouth and watch what i say for the next few hours sheds ok ;D

from christchurch or whats left we are on the east side of town where the hard ones seem to hit lucky tho on friday no liquifaction to clean up doors wouldent open then after the second one they did no power for some time but the generator still has pride of place in the shed people seem to...

big smile to see this thread working again

yay good to hear all is well regards john

any news on this member and the build

hi there good that info can be a help not something to read when tired just setup my new lathe so am going to make a start on a little de dion single casting set plan is in german so could be interesting

a spring balance is just an old type weight scale all i use is a digital kitchen type cooking scales i bought them for weighing all the parts ie rods etc in the multipile cylinder engines to get them all individually the same weight i can send you the whole text regarding balancing via email it...

etw method of balancing Balancing Small Engines Notes on basic principles and practical methods of procedure Basic Principles by ET Westbury, 1951 sorry for the long post but i have found this formula most helpfull in building my engines hope it helps i have cut the text down to te basic...

good to see progress and i thought those castings were a better quality than the ones i have seen and had from woking ie sealion and kittywake just about did my head in getting them sorted still have one kittywake set not worth the hassle with holes and hard spots every where ps havent sent...

thanks just purchased a set via your website i see they are also on ebay so thought i would save you the sellers fee many thanks regards john

glad to see that video well done shees a sweety

i never get tired of checking the progress that will be one sweet little engine

wow looking good havent been able to check in lately most impressed it will soon be buzzing around awesome photo of the little lad thanks for sharing my grandson (five who lives with us) has blown the teacher away with his grasp of math and she asked the daughter how this could be and her...

cant beat that feeling nice job as the wife says but i wish you would smile like that at me when i come home :D

yes i hope if i have done this right this will show the link http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=8353.msg88859#msg88859

in the time i have been watching this thread i have been amazed and thrilled to see this little gem evolving many thanks i have built the three horse version of the later engine(1970 1980) into parallel and 180degree twins my loving wife un beknowing to me sent a photo to the briggs motorsport...