Hi from Wales

[AlanClogwyn]

Hi there, new site user here. I'm taking delivery of a Unimat SL tomorrow having rekindled my desire to build small engines. I have some shop experience from college where I was training as a marine engineer, although the course called mostly for making tools (all of which I still use as it happens!) I managed to sneak a few bits of steam engineering in there, completing an oscillating engine from castings.

This time I'm aiming for a fairly simple horizontal open crank 4 stroke, currently in the design process. It's taken a lot of inspiration from putputman's 'Tiny' engine, although mine is set to be much larger with 1x1.5" cylinder.

Anyway, that's my intro out the way, I can now go back to the drawing board, or even ebay to gather some more tools!

 

[don-tucker]

Hi and welcome,where in Wales are you ,I'm living in Llandaff North near Cardiff
Don

 

[Herbiev]

Hi Alan. Welcome to the forum

 

[AussieJimG]

Hi Alan,
Welcome from the other (currently sunnier) side of the planet.
Jim

 

[AlanClogwyn]

Hi everyone and thanks!

Don I'm near Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula, a fair bit further North!

 

[compspecial]

A warm welcome to the forum, Alan.
Stew

 

[Propforward]

Hi Alan, welcome to the forum. Looking forward to seeing pics of your Unimat and the engines you make with it.

 

[AlanClogwyn]

Cheers again, can't wait to get the little Unimat fired up in earnest and some engines knocked out, it's giving me a headache working out how to fit the components on the little critter to make them though!

Project Number one is a baseplate with central support for the milling column so the X axis uses the main lathe bed not the cross slide which should roughly double the travel in X and Y directions.