T head engine by Brian

[payner]

Brian . Here are a couple of pictures one is almost full right and the other is almost full left and it stays where you position it .
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4.8 volt battery pack , servo , tester .
Bill

 

[mnay]

Bill,
I would be interested in knowing where you purchased those parts. I see many options but have a hard time knowing which parts would work together.
Thanks
Brian,
Nice result as usual on the engine.

Mike

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Thanks Bill---I don't think I will bother with the servos.---Brian

 

[payner]

Bill,
I would be interested in knowing where you purchased those parts. I see many options but have a hard time knowing which parts would work together.
Thanks
Brian,
Nice result as usual on the engine.

Mike

I will see if I can find a link and post it , there is also a model railway supplier that sells a unit to control 1 to 4 servos that can be programmed with throws and speed of travel . I have several of these on my model train layout .
Bill

 

[payner]

Mike . Here is a screenshot of the item on Banggood, mine was slightly cheaper and looks different but if you pock around on the site you can find different manufacturers. I've never had any problems with them or Aliexpress.

Bill

 

[mnay]

Thanks Bill.
Sorry to interrupt your thread Brian.
Mike

 

[William May]

Thanks Bill---I don't think I will bother with the servos.---Brian

Hey, Brian! How do we send you the $25 for the plans? Do you have Paypal? Friends and Family? I bought another set of plans from you for another engine, and they are VERY nice plans!
Thanks!
Bill

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Paypal---send $25 to [email protected]. They will notify me, then I send the files to you.---Brian Rupnow

 

[William May]

Paypal---send $25 to [email protected]. They will notify me, then I send the files to you.---Brian Rupnow

Thanks!
Any reason I couldn't do the crankcase as a casting? Or any of the other parts? I like to cast stuff.

 

[Brian Rupnow]

You can do anything you want to. I don't use castings for anything I make, so can't really advise you on what you can and can't cast.---Brian

 

[Brian Rupnow]

This is the T head engine I designed and built a few months ago. I finished the engine, tuned it to run and took a video. Then it went up on the shelf. Yesterday I had some free time, so I got it off the shelf, down to my work area, and made up a spring return bracket and a throttle extension handle with a return spring. I started it up, adjusted the idle, and then let the engine run until it ran out of fuel. I had my office door open while this was happening so I didn't gas myself. Actually, I went into my machine shop and worked on something else until I heard the engine quit.

 

[almega]

Sir, you do some awesome work up there in the frozen north. I only wish I had the time to develop half of your skills. How many of these do you have on shelves?

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Probably about fourty, but about 18 of them are steam engines.

 

[Steamchick]

Brian, have you considered doing a video of all the engines? I am sure many of us will enjoy seeing the whole gammut of your work. And to listen to your dulcet tones describing them - and why you made them - would keep us all feeling warm when the garage is too cold for working.
K2.

 

[awake]

Ooh - a video of all of them running at once would be quite a sight (and sound)!

 

[Brian Rupnow]

That's not going to happen fellows. If you notice, all of my i.c. engines are powered by an "ignition box" which sets next to them. That same ignition box runs all of my i.c. engines, because a 12 volt automotive ignition coil costs about $50 here.

 

[Richard Hed]

That's not going to happen fellows. If you notice, all of my i.c. engines are powered by an "ignition box" which sets next to them. That same ignition box runs all of my i.c. engines, because a 12 volt automotive ignition coil costs about $50 here.

You can wind your own, they are only a coil.

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Richard---Yeah, I think I'll taKe a couple of hours and ten thousand feet of copper wire and wind my own coils. I only need 19 more.

 

[CFLBob]

That's not going to happen fellows. If you notice, all of my i.c. engines are powered by an "ignition box" which sets next to them. That same ignition box runs all of my i.c. engines, because a 12 volt automotive ignition coil costs about $50 here.

The other way to show all your engines running is to edit a video that shows all of them running, one at a time, combining 20 videos into one long video. Or people could go to your YouTube channel and look at them. I'm assuming you have at least one video of all of them.

Probably easier than winding 19 more coils, if you have the software.

 

[Richard Hed]

Richard---Yeah, I think I'll taKe a couple of hours and ten thousand feet of copper wire and wind my own coils. I only need 19 more.

I've seen automatic wire winders on utub that the users built themselves. It takes a small motor and a rev counter.