V. Lehtonen
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This is my "first" post on this awesome forum, so I hope I got it on the right place :-\ .
This was my first attempt to manufacture an engine from solid blocks of steel and some other materials ;D . I designed and drew it with SolidWorks (It took way too long to design, but it was fun :
). It was supposed to ran with gasoline, but I couldn't find any working tools from school, so I redesigned the whole thing and made it ran with compressed air.
After the designing part, there was the best moment to come; time to start machining. It took me about a month to machine the whole engine and during that time period I learned a lot more about machining than ever before :big: . When the engine was finished, the teacher came to me and said that it was one of the biggest works that has ever been done at school, what was a little surprise, because at my last school one student made small CNC center for himself, and that is probably the biggest work a student can do.
First there's two photos of the starting point (the block is dia 240mm X 140mm steel which worked as a cylinder block)
In the middle; Block with machining almost completed
And last; The finished engine
And here's the second start of the engine:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCY8cUIq0g[/ame]
That and the first start were one of the greatest moments in my school life, I was jumping everywhere with a big grin :big: :big: :big:
So, what do you think about it?
This was my first attempt to manufacture an engine from solid blocks of steel and some other materials ;D . I designed and drew it with SolidWorks (It took way too long to design, but it was fun :
). It was supposed to ran with gasoline, but I couldn't find any working tools from school, so I redesigned the whole thing and made it ran with compressed air. After the designing part, there was the best moment to come; time to start machining. It took me about a month to machine the whole engine and during that time period I learned a lot more about machining than ever before :big: . When the engine was finished, the teacher came to me and said that it was one of the biggest works that has ever been done at school, what was a little surprise, because at my last school one student made small CNC center for himself, and that is probably the biggest work a student can do.
First there's two photos of the starting point (the block is dia 240mm X 140mm steel which worked as a cylinder block)
In the middle; Block with machining almost completed
And last; The finished engine
And here's the second start of the engine:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCY8cUIq0g[/ame]
That and the first start were one of the greatest moments in my school life, I was jumping everywhere with a big grin :big: :big: :big:
So, what do you think about it?
