New Kid in Town

[cobra428]

Hi All,
New guy on the site. I've been building model aircraft for the past 50 years and decided I needed a change of pace. So being a mechanical engineer, machining seemed interesting. I've been doing autocad for the past 20 years and now solidworks. I started the ME hobby about 3 years ago and have made a few stirlings and steamers. Now, I just finally got my Coles small hit and miss to hit. Miss will be next. I do have one problem, vibration! I balanced the flywheels and crank on my prop balancer a little help. Then I tried balancing crank, wheels, conn rod and piston. More help! Does anybody have the secret? Or is it just hit and miss????
Here is a link to my club site with pic's of my stuff. I'm the pic's with the green backround

http://www.limws.org/Thumbnail-folders/Schaublin/Schaublin.html

Thanks
TonyR

 

[rake60]

Welcome to HMEM Tony.

Rick

 

[cobra428]

Thanks Rick,
I've been lurking in the shadows for the past two weeks, just to see. I think this site is great! Lots of info and great people
Tony

 

[itowbig]

lots of great people and this is the best site .
Welcome we love pics and info

 

[cobra428]

Hopefully, I'll have more pics soon of my hit and miss when I get the bugs out!
Tony

 

[Maryak]

Tony,

Welcome to our forum.

There is a paper by ET Westbury on balancing small engines. This is freely available on the net but I can't remember the link.

Hope this helps. ???

Best Regards
Bob

 

[mklotz]

Is this it?

http://modelenginenews.org/etw/etw_bal/p2.html

 

[cobra428]

Hi Bob and Marv,
Thank you very much for the web page. I will give it a try and will keep you posted
Tony

 

[90LX_Notch]

Welcome Tony. Glad to see you've come out of the shadows.