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Tim, Tomcat is right, if the rod is slightly under size it will cut easier it will also expand out to the right size, having said that brass is difficult as it will cut tight and the rod will slightly twist which also contributes to bending, a good new die is better than an old one. I know none...

Hope this one works, Must apologize for the dog wanting to get in on the action.

Ok this is the real Inspectors Motor Trolley. No history is available except there is a brass tag attached saying it was brought down to the Ipswich Rail Museum Queensland Australia from Normanton Far North Queensland in 1973. It is an all wood design even the wheels have wooden spokes. A...

So I have again unsuccessful with my post, I will try again maybe another video.

Hi Brian and whoever is interested, Your engine is ticking over fine Great Job. I have uploaded a video to Youtube, thanks for watching, Ted

Looking good Brian

I learned to drive at 14 in a 1925 Buick, had to work on the manual spark advance all the time, every hill you had to set it back a little, then down the other side you set it up more, woubetide if you forget to retarded it before you put that crank handle in!

I fear that the combustion chamber will remain filled with spent gasses with no way of it scavenging, so the spark plug would have to be near the cylinder so the mixture would rush past it to repressure the chamber.

Brian, I tried to send a short video of my model Fairbanks Morse powered railway trolley (but was unsuccessful ) which I could easily start at 15 degrees by flicking it over with my fingers but I had to advance it much more than that to get it to run properly so then I needed to fit a rope...

I'm thinking that the spark plug should be in its own little combustion chamber so there is a rush of mixture into the chamber as the piston uncovers the hole. Just a thought from my Diesel experience.

Wow, great excitement, good for the pacemaker.

Silly question but are you trying to run it the wrong way?

Just a couple of observations, a lathe, especially a small one should never be bolted down to rubber as you can distort the bed even bolted to timber can be a problem as timber will move with changes of the weather. I have used shems to rectify problems with a very old lathe but before resorting...

I will ask one question, how much compression does it have? I have a small engine that has never run, Putting a timing light on it revealed that the spark would fire each side of top centre but miss the full compression one, it too would get warm when driven by the lathe but so too does a...

I used to do a lot starter motor work and to reload the bush was easy, just sit the bush on your thumb, fill it with oil, place the other thumb on top and press until the oil came out through the pores.

We are never " useless old men" just slowed down a little, and in my part of the world we are still getting days of 33 C Ted

Seems to me in the video that the orange piston may need to have a little gap to uncover the spark plug sooner, also a trembler coil might work better, there would be no need for timing, just switch it on.

Bicycle spokes are 2mm approx 0.080" and are straight, either s steel or almost spring quality steel.

Photos of rail trolley taken recently Feb in NSW Australia before the Pandemic became serious.