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Yep. My modeling time is around Oct. to April, the cooler months in Arizona. After 6 months of this and the coming heat.... I have had enough till the next season. At it since 2006. Somewhat concerned that I will run out of uniqueness, innovation and ideas on my take on model engineering. It is...

Of course you can believe it that your credibility is non existent. Yer a little short on funding engineering and and tooling costs let alone acquisition and adaptation of like parts already in existence. And you just want one prototype. There are no 1500 cc single cyl. gas engines. Take your...

.....Kinda lost everyone with 1500CC's of single cylinder within a Honda frame. Send photos of your machine shop with engineering staff.

Thank you Brian. 🙂

Thanks ShopShoe. Retirees have the time to make the builds proceed quicker. Time line seems to work for me week to week.

You are welcome John! "Wetster" to be a breath of fresh......water for you! :) Got a DC motor for the generator in mind?

Thanks Bob. Horizontal engines need less ballast to weigh them down to keep them from jumping around on the table. Low center of gravity and the power strokes are across the table instead of 90 degrees to it. Items like the gears show up from China around 15 days. Not bad with the disrupt in...

🤔 Betcha there are a half dozen here following this log that have built the WEBSTER. Betcha another ten have used ideas from an engine built from plans in their own scratch builds. And I bet a few have taken a second look at an established plan and expanded on the original model in homage...

The PARTNERS engine completed and running. Come back this weekend for its premier with the beauty shots and video! ... Dave.

Plumbing up some fuel supply with half inch copper tube. To get any kind of volume at this diameter, a couple of tees extend the capacity right under the frame. Complete with filler neck and outlets to the mixers. Four nylon pipe straps hold fuel tank in place. Partners has a slight...

My home grown fuel mixers working well. Using a pair on Partners. Easy to make. No throttling. Engine speed varies by fuel/ air mixture. Using # 14 needles. Seats drilled #55. 10-32 brass machine screws and 3/8 x 3/4in. alum bar stock for body. One thing irritates me. You can not buy a...

The line boring bar tooling determines the minimum size hole needed to start the operation. Will a 3/4 in drill (larger or smaller) reduce your costs and allow the boring bar? Large drills tend to have reduced shanks for half inch chucks and bit extensions can be fabricated to run them thru your...

The ex. valve stem and the camshaft are at the same horizontal level. I'll be using these "hanging crows", to transfer the cam lift to the valves. Profiled on a bar of Delrin before copy to brass, the ex valve is set back 3/8 in. from the fulcrum. The cam lobe sets back an inch from the valve...

Cylinder heads and valve blocks are recognizably Joe Webster, custom to the needs of Partners of course. Some eighth inch aluminum angle support the distributor body over the frame. Its drive shaft and brass gears between the inside frame and cog drive belt are there thru the miracle of the...

The two shafts split the driven necessities that make Partners run. A pair of 32P 24T Nylon gears space the shafts apart to clear the flange on the cam sprocket as the second shaft behind drives the distributor and triggers ignition points. Shaft collars secure some thrust movement of the shafts...

To get all the shaft components on one shaft up front, the engine would be wider by about 3/4inch. Distributor drive, two cam lobes, cam drive sprocket, and points trigger cam. As it stands, Partners is only 3/16in. wider at the crank bearings than the Webster adding a second shaft here.

Keeping the frame from being an inch longer with an up to 4 in. dia. flywheel plus to not crowd out components near the cylinders, the flywheel is turned 90 degrees with a pair of .5Mod, 20T helical gears. The MXL timing set is 20/40T and the 20 has plenty of room on the crank. Flywheel bearing...

I find that when using the boring bar in the mill I get the "orbit" from dead center too. Doesn't seem to affect the outcome to the stock I'm working on.

Most moving components for Partners are within the frame rails. These Tecumseh points set bolt on here and the insulated connection to the battery passes thru the frame just in front of the crank web. A flat spade connect for the wiring.

The crankshaft at the back of the parallel frame members mounts on top with a pair of caps. Here trying out some thin wall Oilite bushings. Not working well. They would not stay in place and walk out from under the cap. Tightening down the cap so they stay would gall the crankshaft. Replaced...