Hi All,
Well today I finally managed to find some shop time to make a start on my first build. I decided to give the EZ engine a go, given that it is a project aimed at the first timer I hope it is just the ticket for me.
I'm sort of used to metric and imperial measurements, but my brain visualizes sizes in imperial. My mill is imperial so I have been buying imperial cutters for it, my lathe has both on it's dials and all my drills, taps and dies are all metric. Hence I have decided that my build will have imperial dimensions except for all the holes. This may sound odd but it works for me.
So both set of plans have been down loaded. My first job was to take the imperial decimal dimesions and convert them to imperial fractions so I could measure the sizes of the parts with my ruler. I knocked up a spread sheet of all the 1/64th - 64/64th factors to decimal. My rule has up to 64ths on the scale but that is a challenge for my eyes. Maybe you guys have a way to layout in imperial decimal but I would have to use the mill table and wind the dials to do that?
Anyway here is a selection of metal stock that I am going to use. Steel for the frame, cylinder and valve case. Brass for the piston and valve and ali for the flywheel.
The first job was to cut the frame, cylinder and valve blocks from the stock
The band saw does a reasonable job but I need to clean up the cut edges in the mill and bring the parts down to size.
I'd just got the base plates set up on the mill when our holiday guests returned to our Loft House holiday apartment which is situated directly above the workshop so I had to call a halt for todays operations, so as not to inflict my machining noises on them, that wouldn't be fair.
The build will progress slowly but I hope steadily, I feel good to have finally made a start, more later.
Nick
Well today I finally managed to find some shop time to make a start on my first build. I decided to give the EZ engine a go, given that it is a project aimed at the first timer I hope it is just the ticket for me.
I'm sort of used to metric and imperial measurements, but my brain visualizes sizes in imperial. My mill is imperial so I have been buying imperial cutters for it, my lathe has both on it's dials and all my drills, taps and dies are all metric. Hence I have decided that my build will have imperial dimensions except for all the holes. This may sound odd but it works for me.
So both set of plans have been down loaded. My first job was to take the imperial decimal dimesions and convert them to imperial fractions so I could measure the sizes of the parts with my ruler. I knocked up a spread sheet of all the 1/64th - 64/64th factors to decimal. My rule has up to 64ths on the scale but that is a challenge for my eyes. Maybe you guys have a way to layout in imperial decimal but I would have to use the mill table and wind the dials to do that?
Anyway here is a selection of metal stock that I am going to use. Steel for the frame, cylinder and valve case. Brass for the piston and valve and ali for the flywheel.
The first job was to cut the frame, cylinder and valve blocks from the stock
The band saw does a reasonable job but I need to clean up the cut edges in the mill and bring the parts down to size.
I'd just got the base plates set up on the mill when our holiday guests returned to our Loft House holiday apartment which is situated directly above the workshop so I had to call a halt for todays operations, so as not to inflict my machining noises on them, that wouldn't be fair.
The build will progress slowly but I hope steadily, I feel good to have finally made a start, more later.
Nick