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Hi all, I am having a hard time finding the famous Hubert Schilling´s "Boxer-, Reihen- und V-Motoren als Model". It seems to be discontinued, so getting a hard copy is almost impossible. Is there any place where I can find a download? Payed of course. Anyhow, being this a discontinued item, I...

Nice job Matt, It's always nice to see new build videos. I think it helps to understand better some procedures. Here we say "a pic worths more than a thousand words". I'm also surprised to find you are using inserts in an small lathe with really nice results. Chips look good and surface finish...

Everytime I see posts from Terry or from Keith5700 I can´t help to envy their knowledge and craftmanship level. Every single piece they make deserve to be exposed in a museum. Go ahed with these builds!

Best wishes and speedy recovery Terry. It's incredible how inspiring your work is for the rest of the community. You are pushing all of us to be better machinists just to try to close the huge gap between your skills and ours. Hope to read you again soon! We'll be here waiting

Of course you are free of using your machinery in the way you want, but please, don´t confuse new machinists saying that. Every experienced guy will tell you, using a drill chuck for milling is not a good practice and can be dangerous. But if you prefer investing in steppers rather than in the...

I´ve been following your project progress and it looks good. Aanyway I can see you are milling the parts using a drill chuck....not a good idea. Drill chucks only accepts axial loads, not radial as the ones involved during milling. Apart from the lack of precission, it´s quite easy ending up...

I have to adhere to this advice. This is in the ABC of "what no to do with a milling machine". When machining, things can turn into a disaster in fractions of a second. And damaging your equipment is not the worst that can happen to you. If you are going to walk the CNC road, your tooling should...

First message and asking someone to send you the result of his efforts! Are you going to participate or once you get what you came for, you ill run away? I hope no one gets offended by my message, but as a machinists community there are some behaviours I am not comfortable with.

Hehe, It was a challenge also for me getting those plans!! I ordered them from vht.de online shop. It was not easy cause the entire webpage is in german, but thanks to google translator I was able to post the order. Communication with vth staff is an impossible mission (they just doesn't...

Absolutely Canadianhorsepower, I love it!! It explains in a simple way the most common questions about both types. That's exactly why I want to make my v8 with a flat plane crank.

Thak you Steve and George!! Gerorge...Once I finish the design, I´ll post it so you can take a look and correct the mistakes! Steve...I didn´t knew this method for machining the lobes. It seems to produce smoother profiles than the milling method...I like it! (although it looks less...

Thank you everyone for your kind help. The pic of the firing plate that Stevehuckss have posted is precisely the one that I was searching for.....now it comes the hard work designing the camshafts (I know for some of you this is a no-brain task, but I suspect that I´ll need lots of paper and...

Thank you very much Steve!!! It´s a honour to find help from people with your experience. I assume that you are numbering the cilynders this way... Am I right?

Hi dear friends!! I am going to start thebuilding of a Schillings V8 engine (with some of my own mods). It will be a flat plane crank (I love the high pitch sound of italian engines). I want to replicate the firing order of Ferrari´s V8 engines, but for my big surprise, I was not able to...

Thank you very muchos Peter!!! I'll give them a few days more and I'll keep you informed. It's a real pleasure to be part of this community, thanks to people like you, I always have found a helping hand. I hope to contribute very soon with my v8 build.

Hi all!! Has anyone experience in buying plans from vth.de? I have recently ordered a set of Schillings v8 plans. I payed with my credit card but I have not received any information about my order. When I check the order through their webpage, what I find is this. Google translates this as...

Hello Swifty, You are absolutely right, but here is an example of what I am saying: In the Whittle plans the distance between some bolts is 0.416 in. Ok, go to mm....0.416 x 25.4 = 10.5664 mm. I am happy working with ine hundred of an milimiter, but this would require working in...

No Barnesrickw, 25.4 will not do anything if you want to make things with the precission I like to achieve in my works. For some things conversion is possible, but in this case it is not an option.

Thank you Jasonb! The engine you mention looks very good, but I am afraid not to find building information about this engine. Anyway, it seems promising to me. Best regards!

Hello dear machinists! I am planning to build a new engine. My decission is biased towards radial type engine. The problem I have is regarding metric / imperial units. Having grown in Spain I am used to metric units, being really difficult for me thinking and working in inches. Since the...