Peewee V4

michael-au · Dec 12, 2015

Cogsy said:
Are you making it thicker than the plans say or thinning it down? I had issues trying to successfully make it thin enough from solid so ended up making it 2 pieces, 1 piece of plate and then the 'snout', then joined them together.

I did make it a little thicker, it's.078

Looks thicker in the photo because there is a lip around the edge at the moment

Davewild · Dec 12, 2015

Hi Michael
Your coming along great, I have yet to make the front gear cover.
I have made a lot of parts this trip offshore and will post some pics as soon as I get home in another couple of days with a better internet connection.
I made the rear adapter plate yesterday, luckily I did not cut the corners off until after fitting the cast bell housing and I had to make the cuts much smaller than the drawing specifies, my bell housing bolt bosses are out of square by over 6 mm or .250
Please check your bell housing before cutting the mitred corners on the adapter plate.
I also started on a radiator of my own design, what are you doing for a rad?

Your parts look great can't wait to see it run!!!

Dave

michael-au · Dec 12, 2015

Davewild said:
Hi Michael
Your coming along great, I have yet to make the front gear cover.
I have made a lot of parts this trip offshore and will post some pics as soon as I get home in another couple of days with a better internet connection.
I made the rear adapter plate yesterday, luckily I did not cut the corners off until after fitting the cast bell housing and I had to make the cuts much smaller than the drawing specifies, my bell housing bolt bosses are out of square by over 6 mm or .250
Please check your bell housing before cutting the mitred corners on the adapter plate.
I also started on a radiator of my own design, what are you doing for a rad?

Your parts look great can't wait to see it run!!!

Dave

Hi Dave
Good to here you are make parts looking forward to the pictures, thanks for the tip on the bell housing

I will probably make a radiator similar to the one on my silver bullet but maybe an extra 2 or 3 tubes to make it wider

Michael

michael-au · Dec 16, 2015

More progress on the front plate

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Just to see what it looks like with the fan

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I will anodise it gold, should look ok

michael-au · Dec 17, 2015

This is what I have so far, still need to do the final fit and finish on somethings

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Cogsy · Dec 17, 2015

Looks great, I'm jealous of your progress. It's going to be one wild looking machine when it's finished, should be awesome!

10K Pete · Dec 17, 2015

I've been watching but haven't commented until now. This is an amazing
build and I'm very excited to see that the engine will be running pretty
soon. Great work and a great log.

Pete

gus · Dec 19, 2015

Would love to see this engine doing the ''Vroom Vroom"". Will be soon??

michael-au · Dec 21, 2015

Started making the posts for the engine stand
Still need to machine them to the final length
And drill the bottom for the 3mm socket heads that will hold them on the base

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They were turned with CNC, now they will be finished manually

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Will anodise these but not sure what colour yet, maybe blue

michael-au · Dec 22, 2015

Finished off the machining and threaded the bottom end

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Next was the anodising

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After they were anodised and then dyed, they are boiled for 20 minutes to seal the dye in

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Polished using braso

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This is the jig to hold 2 parts, they are threaded to make sure there is a good electrical contact

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michael-au · Dec 22, 2015

Anodised the front plate today, happy with the way it came out

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10K Pete · Dec 22, 2015

I sure do envy your ability to anodize at will! Beautiful parts. Can't wait
to see this all come together.

Pete

michael-au · Dec 22, 2015

Made the throttle arm black

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gbritnell · Dec 23, 2015

Hi Michael,
I just came across your build thread and started back at the beginning and read through it. You are doing some outstanding work on your engine. The finish with the anodized parts will make a striking engine when finished.
If I might make a suggestion. When I built my small inline 4 cylinder engine it was the first engine that had a radiator and cooling system. I made a small fan similar to the one that you have built and after I got the engine running I noticed that there was no noticeable amount of air moving so I changed the fan, both in diameter but especially the pitch. It still doesn't move a lot of air but it's much better than when I first built it. If you can't get away with a larger diameter then give the blades quite a bit more pitch.
gbritnell

michael-au · Dec 23, 2015

gbritnell said:
Hi Michael,
I just came across your build thread and started back at the beginning and read through it. You are doing some outstanding work on your engine. The finish with the anodized parts will make a striking engine when finished.
If I might make a suggestion. When I built my small inline 4 cylinder engine it was the first engine that had a radiator and cooling system. I made a small fan similar to the one that you have built and after I got the engine running I noticed that there was no noticeable amount of air moving so I changed the fan, both in diameter but especially the pitch. It still doesn't move a lot of air but it's much better than when I first built it. If you can't get away with a larger diameter then give the blades quite a bit more pitch.
gbritnell

Thank you for your kind comments

The fan is the same as on my silver bullet, I have not twisted the blades as yet, I will do that on final assembly of the front plate and fan hub.

Thank you for pointing it out though

Michael

michael-au · Dec 24, 2015

Got the back plate for the bellhousing to bolt up too done today

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Davewild · Dec 24, 2015

Great work as always Michael, your holes in the adapter plate look nice and Square, your bell housing bosses must have been good?

michael-au · Dec 25, 2015

Davewild said:
Great work as always Michael, your holes in the adapter plate look nice and Square, your bell housing bosses must have been good?

Thank you Dave

I remembered what you said about the holes, but unfortunately it wasn't until I made the plate.

But as there are pores castings I will make a new bellhousing so the holes will line up

Might make it in 2 pieces

Michael

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