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Having made the proper style main mount, it is looking more like a BR2..Next I needed a stand, and this also means I needed an extension for the crankshaft, and also a proper style sleeve nut that secures the main mount to the crankshaft..If you look at the picure below, you will see on the left, the new stand and extended crankshaft and longer proper looking sleeve nut..On the right is the original design that was made by the previous builder..The main mount is nothing like a BR2, and the very short sleeve nut looks wrong..NOTE: before I go any further I would like to say that the engine that was being made by the original builder would have worked the way it was, it just would not have looked like a BR2 should, and as far as I am concerned, it would just have been a 9 cylinder rotary engine, and that is not what I was after..I was originally going to make 2 of everything and have 2 finished BR2's, but with all the figuring and changing that was necessary to do what I wanted, this would have been an even much longer project, and at being 73 years old, that idea seemed like it was lacking something...……
I fashioned an extension for the crankshaft that was threaded on to match the 40TPI..It was a sleeve that threaded on the crank after the newly fashioned sleevenut to secure the main mount..Notice the difference in the sleevenuts on the left and on the right in the above picture..I also then threaded the end of the extension that goes through the stand at the rear, onto which I made another nut to hold the rear of the engine to the rear of the stand...These are shown below..
So, with the addition of the previous parts, I think it looks like a proper Bentley BR2 now, as compared to what the original builder intended, and the following pictures show that...
Moderators,I hope I am not adding too many images, as I do not know if there is a limit...…...
I fashioned an extension for the crankshaft that was threaded on to match the 40TPI..It was a sleeve that threaded on the crank after the newly fashioned sleevenut to secure the main mount..Notice the difference in the sleevenuts on the left and on the right in the above picture..I also then threaded the end of the extension that goes through the stand at the rear, onto which I made another nut to hold the rear of the engine to the rear of the stand...These are shown below..
So, with the addition of the previous parts, I think it looks like a proper Bentley BR2 now, as compared to what the original builder intended, and the following pictures show that...
Moderators,I hope I am not adding too many images, as I do not know if there is a limit...…...
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