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Well you asked for it and here it is, this was the first real run after spending around an hour setting up the latch etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID9uX20dWqQ Hope you enjoy, now wheres that other casting kit at, let me at it !!!! Cheers, MartinH

Excellent, I mean absolutely excellent, thank you very much for sharing the experience with us. I have been following the build and it has been great. Cheers, MartinH

Thanks all, will get a video up as soon as possible. Bob, the wood for the base is some kind of teak, it was a couple of old door casings that someone gave me. Cheers, MartinH

Hello all, I have just about completed the Briesch Amanco that I have been doing for a while now, thought it was about time it was finished. Only a couple of minor jobs to do, but they are just appearance things so thought you might like to see some pictures. This is the 1/3rd scale Air Cooled...

As far as I see it the pneumatic timers we use are either time to on or time to off, I can`t say I have ever come across a one that does both. So if you had a time to on valve the valve would get a signal then wait the set amount of time till it switched and opened the valve to allow air to...

Great idea Brian, like someone has already said a windscreen wiper box could yield some useful gearing. I know when I drive the pump I have just made with the R&V engine it hits all the time under load and then goes to h & m mode when running on the loose pulley. It sure shows how hard these...

Chads, nice job on the engine. I am currently almost finished the air cooled version of this engine, I also plan to run it on propane. MartinH

Congratulations, a really good thread to follow especially when the finished item is as outstanding as these are. MartinH

Hello all, I have just finished putting together the Rider Ericsson Pumping engine that I have been building. It appears to run ok and pumps well. I had a little trouble at first trying to get it to run well, it turned out that there was not enough clearance in the parts and as we all know...

The model of this engine did not have caged valves as stated in other posts. I know the guy who designed it and also know of the whereabouts of at least four of his models. The model is more a lookalike than being a true scale model. He also made a few other designs aswell, I think I can...

Thanks for that info Pat, I have persisted with the CAD drawings after following your intro post a few months back. Was getting on well untill I hit the fancy bits!!!!! Cheers, MartinH

Thanks for all the comments, they really are appreciated. As I said in an earlier post CAD is not my favourite thing to work with, I seem to spend hours on one drawing that takes two minutes on a scrap of paper. I have most of it drawn up now, just the difficult shaped parts to figure out how to...

Thanks for that link, I will send off a letter unless anyone has an email address for Mr John Palmer. MartinH

Very nice engine Don, are the plans still available for it, I would really like to get hold of them if they are. Cheers, MartinH

Well it`s been a long time since I posted on the progress of the pump. It has not been the best of weather for finishing and painting but I have finally got it done. The base was made from 3mm plate with a teak top on it. The tank is a piece of pipe with ice lolly sticks glued to it to make it...

Hello all, could anyone help me to find out how to enter some engines in this show, the website is pretty useless and gives no information whatsoever. So if anyone could tell me how to go about it then I may consider taking a few to this show. Has anyone entered in the past and what was thier...

Very, Very nice George, an excellent job and don`t they look much nicer without the paint on them? It certainly must be a beast at that wieght. Cheers, MartinH

Hall effect switches and me don`t seem to get on, I can blow them in a second. I have been using small auto points and a small cam behind the rear flywheel. Easier to set up aswell as you just rotate the cam to set the timing. The ignition circuit I use, and have made quite a few for other...

Lovely job Japcas, and you certainly have it running well. Do they do this model with an ignitor instead of the plug?? MartinH

Coming along very nicely Jason. I also like to run on liquid fuel and have had fun in the past with the ignitors. Was thinking of trying propane on the Rootsy to see what difference it makes, please post if you try it also. Cheers, MartinH