Introduction Ed

[feuered]

Hello to to all.I've been a member for a while and have enjoyed and learned from the chatter, but this is my first post. Hope I'm following correct procedure, otherwise will appreciate advice. At suggestion of moderator, I'm telling you a bit about myself. I will be 92yrs old in Jan. 2013, and my shop work has slowed some but still goes on. I have been an amateur machinist for about 35yrs. My shop's main machine is a Maximat 11 complete with milling attachment, and just about every item of tooling made for it. I have built steam, stirling, flame eaters, and gasoline engines, and am currentlly experimesting with capacitor discharge ignition for the gas engines. If anyone lives in the Orlando FL. area and wants my 30YR collection of almost all magazines, FREE, let me know. Thank you for accepting me as a member. Ed

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Welcome to the forum Ed. we have some very interesting stuff going on, hope you stick around.---Brian

 

[nemoc]

Hi Ed, Glad to have you here. Please post some photos of your engines.

Craig

 

[dsquire]

Ed

Hi Ed and welcome to Home Model Engine Machinist. I see that you joined a few months ago and have probably been looking around the site. I hope that you have liked what you saw. If you have any questions just ask and someone will be happy to answer or at least give an opinion.

I am sure that with all your experience that you can probably teach most of us a trick or two when it comes to machining. If you have a chance we would love to see some pictures of some of the engines that you have built over the years.

We look forward to having you as a member and your participation in the forums as you have the time.


Cheers

Don

 

[rhitee93]

Hi Ed! It sounds like you are the guy I always wanted to become You know, that elderly gent down the street who know how to do everything

I also hope you can share some pics of your projects with us, and that you hop right in and join the fun.

 

[feuered]

Many thanks for the warm welcomes. have posted some engine photos in my album, does this make them available to all? or is there something else I need to do? Also I got a caption and some description entered on the first photo,but was unable to figure out how to do that on the other 5 photos. I guess i'm still low on the learning curve for working with this website,but i'll keep at it, since I have more engines to show. Any help would be appreciated. Ed

 

[Cogsy]

Hi Ed, welcome to the forum. I just checked and I can see your photos of your beautiful engines. I can't help with the captions, I'm pretty new here myself.

With your alcohol lamps, can I ask if it's necessary to solder the wick holders in place? I'm building a flamelicker at the moment and I was hoping to experiment with the wick holder height before I solder it in place, so I was hoping a nice tight fit would do.

Keep up the good work - I hope to see more of you creations.

Regards from Australia,

 

[Mosey]

Welcome, Ed, it's nice to have you with us.

You're ability to do nice work at your age is comfort to those of us who have entered the advanced stage of doing things and have begun the process of slowing down. Keep up the fine work, it is inspirational to us kids.

Mosey

 

[albertorc19]

Nice photos, please post a few more. Have you already posted photos of your shop? I'd really like to see that Maximat equipment. Your offer is very generous hope those magazines find a good home.
Best regards

 

[feuered]

Hi all - glad you liked my engines.I have a few more to post. They are all hit & miss engines that run on Coleman Fuel and I am using Jan Ridders latest vapor carb. Works great. I would solder all joints on the lamps. Alcohol has low surface tension and will leak thru the tiniest spaces so you could have flaming alcohol running around.On the larger flame licker (aluminum) the fuel tank is made from a brass door knob I glued a big steel washer on it's bottom, and glued a piece of magnetic rubber to the engine base near the intake hole. I fill the tank and set it on the rubber. this holds it in place while allowing it to be moved about to the best running spot. Cogsy, flame eaters don't have much power, so work to get close fits and minimum friction. will try to get shop photo. Good luck - Ed

 

[compspecial]

A very warm welcome to you Ed! its great to have such an active fellow with us who is 92 years young! looking forward to seeing some of your models.
Stew.

 

[Herbiev]

G'day Ed and a very hearty welcome to you